Subsidence in Ripon, and many other places underlain by gypsum poses a severe constraint on the development of those areas.
Dr Peter Davis Have a total infrastructure overhaul: Inadequacies in energy, roads and seaports have been a severe constraint to development over the last 50 years.
Parliaments in Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait and Yemen offer a more pluralistic face, but even they operate under severe constraint.
The difference in Argentina was that a lack of sufficient IMF funding at the beginning of the programme was a more severe constraint than the conditions imposed to reduce the deficit.
He sang the chorus to himself — "I paid the cost to be the boss" — and remarked that one price of leadership, for Obama, had been a severe constraint on the very wanderlust that Bourdain personifies.
He is trying to undo years of corporate drift and is operating under the severe constraint of an over-stretched balance sheet and, one assumes, mighty write-downs to follow on the property portfolio.
Walling off research from the rest of the firm is a severe constraint on the investment banker plying his trade, says Mr Hayes.
Rather, it is the suspension of donor support that continues to place a severe constraint on the public resources available for financing road and sewerage investment.
