These lines of evidence suggest that a limited area around the Great Buddha may have been severely polluted during the gilding, but that Ancient Nara was only moderately polluted with Hg since the eighth century, probably due to the construction of the Nara Daibutsu as well as the use of cinnabar in the region.
Furthermore, some of the chemicals used for modification are harmful and can severely pollute the environment.
A potential pipeline break or leak could severely pollute it.
The killing of the scapegoat belongs to this general category; more dramatically, a severely polluted person may himself be killed rather than being allowed the opportunity to transfer his impurities onto a more dispensable animal or object.
The experimental results show that our strategy can curb the propagations of the polluted files effectively and efficiently even in the severely polluted structured P2P networks.
And the air in many Chinese cities remained severely polluted.
As lakes disappear, rivers are either being depleted or severely polluted.
Superfund, which parallels the federal program by the same name, deals with the most severely polluted sites.
Growing industrialization, shoreline populations, and tourism since the mid-20th century have resulted in severely polluted waters in many Mediterranean coastal areas.
Rapid industrialization following World War II in Poland, as well as in neighbouring Czech Republic, Slovakia, and eastern Germany, severely polluted many areas of the country.
