Even if they do not cross the violence threshold, the activism and the social polarisation generated could seriously condition states' domestic and foreign policy [25].
Oliver-Smith et al. (2016, p. 8) captures the latter position succinctly: "disaster risk and eventual disaster are social constructs based on the presence of potentially damaging physical events but seriously and dominantly conditioned by societal perceptions, priorities, needs, demands, decisions and practices".
In seriously testing conditions he could score no better than 74.
But a large body of research has demonstrated that such symptoms do, in fact, define a seriously debilitating condition.
Precisely because we value so highly the sacred seed of life, we take so seriously the conditions for life's unfolding.
A five-year-old girl who was airlifted to Broadford hospital in Skye after being plucked from the loch was reported to be in a seriously ill condition.
Do not confuse this with the seriously inconvenient condition known to the world as buck teeth (without which we would have no orthodontists, and no mortified adolescents with mouthfuls of rubber bands and wire braces).
In its report the commission, which does not have the authority to bring criminal charges, said that 13 patients had died as a result of Dr. Patel's negligence and that others had been left in seriously worse condition than before the operations.
"The special rapporteur concludes that imposing seriously punitive conditions of detention on someone who has not been found guilty of any crime is a violation of his right to physical and psychological integrity as well as of his presumption of innocence," Mendez writes.
In recounting her adventures as a reporter in one of the most dangerous regions of the world, the author captures both the serious and the seriously absurd conditions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, using black humor to convey the sad-awful-frequently-insane incongruities of war.
