Sentence examples for as severe a from inspiring English sources

When the Royal Opera House warns of "partial nudity", you can assume it's as severe a threat as that given recently on Radio 3's estimable CD Review about the offensive text of Magnus Lindberg's choral work Graffiti, which turned out to contain saucy snippets of ancient Latin comprehensible only to classicists or the long dead.

"This is about as severe a brain injury as you could survive," says research team member Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.

While not facing as severe a situation as Miami Beach, the Bay Area has some major challenges.

Europe has fallen short in terms of both fiscal and monetary policy: it's facing at least as severe a slump as the United States, yet it's doing far less to combat the downturn.

The Bank has signalled that it is willing to do more, but Shafik conceded that the evidence so far suggested the Brexit vote had not dealt as severe a blow to the economy as expected.

Al Qaeda has reconstituted itself and, according to the director of central intelligence, possesses just as severe a threat to us right now as it did during the weeks leading up to Sept. 11.

But this time, some economists say, Japan's troubles will not have as severe an effect.

Officials of 3M said the doses given to the rats were extremely high, but E.P.A. officials said that few other chemicals would have as severe an effect.

Criticizing Apple these days is as severe an offense as calling someone's mother a whore.

"If we're going to go through a retest that could be as severe as a correction — a 10percentto20percentcent decline — I would tend to think that panic will return," Mr. Stovall said.

And even Ms. Huppert, who can be as severe as a thunderclap, doesn't emerge as a full character.