Sentence examples for make more severe from inspiring English sources

Shortly before the 2005 general election he was ejected from the safe Sussex seat he had represented for eight years after suggesting a new Conservative government would make more severe spending cuts than pledged.

On the one hand, insecure attachment developed as a result of the pattern of early interactions might make more severe the child's anxiety responses to stressful events.

By contrast, older people appear to make more severe suicide attempts [ 16- 20].

Laws passed in 1954 provided for heavy fines on journalists thought to have damaged the prestige of the state or the law; several prominent journalists were prosecuted under this law, which was made more severe in 1956, while other laws substantially abridged the independence of civil servants (including university teachers) and judges.

The infighting has been made more severe by the increasingly perilous situation on the ground.

But that has been made more severe by fixing the interest rate at the highest level of any such system in Europe.

When times have become rough, universities have usually made more severe cuts in their education departments than in other academic departments.

After high-profile breaches, such as the hack of US retailing giant Target and alleged Chinese state-sponsored espionage of various American organisations, many want to see CFAA punishments made more severe.

Governor Wilson fashioned his anti-immigrant pitch in the throes of a devastating recession early in the 1990's, one made more severe than elsewhere in the nation by the post-cold-war downsizing of the state's defense industry.

His countenance is made more severe by a balding pate and an often furrowed look, as if he is squinting into a bright light or being asked a question whose premise he disagrees with.

The court explained that if the sanctions now attached to the underlying criminal act "do not provide sufficient deterrence," then perhaps they should be "made more severe" — but "it would be quite remarkable to hold" that an individual can constitutionally be punished merely for publishing information because the government failed to "deter conduct by a non-law-abiding third party".