Sentence examples for severe check from inspiring English sources

Between Mīr Maḥmūd's death (1725) and 1731, Nādr Qoli Beg rapidly consolidated his hold over eastern Iran and placed a severe check on the rise of Pashtun power.

It is a judgment his prose style supports: "Shalamov holds himself in severe check as an artist", wrote Irving Howe, "he is simply intent, with a grey passion, upon exactitude".

This War of the Bavarian Succession was half-hearted and short-lived, and the Treaty of Teschen ending it in May 1779 was a severe check to Joseph's ambitions and a diplomatic victory for Frederick.

He wrote to Congress and Washington that "My amiable friend, the gallant Montgomery, is no more; the brave Arnold is wounded; and we have met a severe check, in an unsuccessful attempt on Quebec, May Heaven be graciously pleased that the misfortune may terminate here".

If symptoms do get severe check into a hospital.

"They need a severe reality check as to what you need to do to survive and what you need to do to win," he said.

The delirium continued through 1989, but in July there was a severe reality check when 16-year-old Clare Leighton collapsed at the club and later died as a result of taking ecstasy.

For that matter, Mike Bloomberg's own city, New York, had the most severe background check system, the Sullivan Law, on the books since 1908.

"And I think [Obama] should have more severe background checks for people that are applying for gun permits, serious background checks, to the point of finger-printing".

They said an unidentified man had been arrested in connection with the incident which occurred about five kilometres from the Arena Castelao and police carried out severe security checks at vantage points close to the stadium.

Possible reasons for the decreased number of calculating hospitals in 2008 are the introduction of more severe plausibility checks or the high number of excluded hospitals in the previous year, which lowered the motivation to participate and reduced the percentage of cases surviving plausibility checks (see Table 1).