The economic challenge has grown particularly severe in Egypt since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.
Japan's economic situation has grown increasingly severe in recent years: the nation's per capita gross domestic product — a measure of economic prosperity — declined from third highest in the world in 1991 to 18th last year, according to the World Bank.
According to Ms. Speier, the backlog in Oakland has grown so severe that all new claims are immediately sent to V.A. offices in Lincoln, Neb., and Muskogee, Okla., where the backlog is less serious.
Iran's oil minister acknowledged for the first time on Monday that petroleum exports and sales had fallen by at least 40 percent over the past year, contradicting his previous denials and providing an unusual public admission that the cumulative impact of Western economic sanctions has grown more severe.
More recently, the infighting and danger has grown so severe that Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a former Shabaab leader (of a more nationalist bent) fled the group, surrendering to arrest by the TFG.
Briony has grown into a tall, severe, not quite beautiful young woman (played by Romola Garai, who tamps down her customary lusciousness) with ambitions to be a novelist.
Since the mid-1970s, North Korea's involvement in transnational organised crime – particularly drug and cigarette trafficking, weapons smuggling and the production of counterfeit US currency – has grown steadily, peaking during the severe economic crisis and famine the country faced in the early and mid-1990s.
Nations have so dragged their feet in battling climate change that the situation has grown critical and the risk of severe economic disruption is rising, says a draft UN report.
The business software sector, meanwhile, has grown intensely competitive, and vendors are under severe price pressure.
A severe lack of empathy has grown alongside this entitlement, because people like Brock don't have to care how others think.
