Therefore, we devised a double-hit model exposing mice prone to develop atherosclerosis (Plump et al., 1992) to a surgical procedure of medium severity combined with a substantial, but not severe, blood loss of 400 µl, which we estimated to be 20% of total blood volume (Wu et al., 1981).
The general public should know that swine flu is global but not severe and that the flu pandemic is not defined by its severity.
The look was stark and clean but not severe thanks to the iridescence in the product.
Avoiding the extreme austerities of the Desert Fathers, St. Basil's rule was strict but not severe.
(The latter part was spare but not severe; it kept changing slightly, shaped and pulled on by the other players).
"To see large numbers of districts cutting weeks off the school year in times of mild but not severe recession is just unprecedented".
Mild cognitive impairment, or M.C.I., involves a decline in mental acuity that is noticeable but not severe enough to be diagnosed as dementia.
His crime is lurid enough to be a political liability for any Democrat who stands behind him, but not severe enough to draw a felony conviction, for which he would have been automatically expelled.
The White House unveiled a system of color-coded rankings today to warn the nation of terrorist threats and said that the current alert level was yellow, meaning the threat of new terrorist attacks was "significant" but not "severe".
Greer Fay Cashman, writing in the Jerusalem Post, was rather more concerned about what the first lady was wearing when she arrived in Israel: "a smart, but not severe, black pants suit".
So social workers are rewarded, she says, for spending less time gathering evidence of abuse, and for bailing out on families with difficulties that are long-lasting but not severe enough to warrant taking the children away.
