Sentence examples for over severe from inspiring English sources

With telecommuting taking on a sudden new attractiveness, the computer industry is benefiting in the short term from fears in East Asia over severe acute respiratory syndrome.

C1 SARS Roils Computer Industry The panic in East Asia over severe acute respiratory syndrome has helped the computer industry increase sales to telecommuters.

It was reported that the child was taken to hospital for treatment over "severe" injuries.

My father, a man of ceaseless curiosity, perseverance, and accomplishment, triumphed over severe adversity and went on to make many people happy, including himself.

From the outset, Björk wanted to bring traditional instruments into the mixture; her first idea was to have a brass band playing over severe electronic beats.

Nearly two dozen former N.F.L. players are suing the league over severe and permanent brain damage they say is linked to concussions on the job.

He was over-severe about the surface "merits" of the poems, which are rich in detail and at times approach a Tennysonian music.

When the internal authorities are so implacable and sadistic — over-severe, abusive, humiliating, as Freud writes — what are the possibilities for happiness?

"If you had not asked that question," moaned a Lord Justice of Appeal as I attempted to overturn the over-severe 18-month prison sentence on Cynthia Payne, "this case would have attracted four lines in the Streatham Gazette".

His own playing was marked by superlative technical assurance, lucidity, intellectual authority and gravitas – gaiety and humour came less easily to him – and initially he was criticised for too coolly dispassionate and austere a style: later, however, he himself acknowledged that he might have been over-severe and adopted a more relaxed, more expressive approach.

These two examples are of healthy (if over-severe) scepticism which resisted the challenges to conventional perceptions.