"Sony expects its business environment to continue to be severe in the second half of the fiscal year," he added.
The organization said the downturn would also be severe in Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey.
We should by all means be severe in dealing with bullshitters of the political, the commercial, and the academic varieties.
When it does, its impact will be severe in the number of illnesses and the disruption to everyday life".
All the more reason to be severe in assessing lessons learned.
But the pressure on UMP will be severe in those contested constituencies.
"If it fails to achieve this, the consequences could be severe in terms of liquidity hoarding and further breakdown of bank funding markets," Credit Suisse said.
Earlier in the month National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) scientists predicted that the 2015 season for harmful algal blooms would be severe in western Lake Erie, rivalling the blooms of 2011.
A commission spokesman, Chris Roberts, said that though winter was a time of lower water consumption, without above-average precipitation this winter, the situation could be severe in the spring.
The economic dislocation of jumping off the euro train would doubtless be severe in the short term, though the costs of permanent austerity would almost certainly be greater thereafter.
In justifying the new standard, the agency noted that "fuel system integrity in a crash is critical" because while vehicle fires are relatively rare "they tend to be severe in terms of the number of casualties caused".
