Sentence examples for capable of severe from inspiring English sources

The scale goes as high as F5, and an F3 tornado, with wind speeds of 158 to 206 miles per hour, is capable of severe damage.

Janet Alder, the dead man's sister, said: "It has taken 13 years to break through what I see as a reluctance of the organisations dealing with controversial custody deaths to hold police officers accountable, or to believe or consider whether police officers could be capable of severe maltreatment of citizens within their custody".

Although many GAS serotypes are capable of causing severe diseases, a few were more frequently isolated from patients with severe cases, e.g., M1, M3, M18, and M28 strains (Table 2 in Technical Appendix).

Inhalation anthrax is a severe, often fatal disease characterized by systemic spread of the challenge agent, Bacillus anthracis, which is capable of causing severe damage to host tissues and organs.

The drug can also produce increases in heart rate and blood pressure and is capable of producing severe psychological dependence.

A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing severe damage, although the depth of this one lessened its impact.

Dr. Tauxe said the bacterium appeared to be a particularly virulent strain capable of causing severe illness.

The World Bank has also promised to extend a $500m£310m0m) emergency loan to support the reconstruction of buildings capable of withstanding severe floods and winds of up to 280kph.

He survived about 15,000 days of isolation – a form of captivity that the United Nations has denounced as torture and that scientific studies have shown is capable of inflicting severe psychological damage on individuals in less than a week.

The nearest clinic capable of treating severe malaria is relatively close to the village – about a 30-minute walk – but with an unconscious patient and no vehicles, the distance seems far greater.

In 2013 a strain of H7N9 capable of causing severe pneumonia and death emerged in China, with the first confirmed cases detected in February that year and dozens more reported in the following months.