Sentence examples for severe recent from inspiring English sources

Only in the light of such anxiety can China's severe recent sentencing of Liu Xiaobo, a writer and political activist, to 11 years in prison be understood.

Relations with Pakistan, once a close ally, have also rebounded from severe recent strains, largely thanks to the decision by the country's military dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to support American military efforts in Afghanistan.

The most severe recent incidents at both institutions — shouts of "nigger" directed at a black student at Missouri, a purported "white girls only" Yale fraternity party — will sound familiar to anyone who works at or even has substantial contact with an institution of higher education.

I also test for search externalities by comparing outcomes for UI eligible and ineligible individuals across the extension episodes associated with the relatively mild recession of the early 2000s and the more severe recent recession.

Similarly, Farber and Valletta (2013) found no difference in UI extension effects on unemployment duration across the two episodes associated with the relatively mild recession of the early 2000s and the more severe recent recession.

Similarly, low diversity in central Europe and the UK (cE/UK) might reflect disproportionally severe recent bottlenecks or higher levels of inbreeding in breeds from these areas.

But as fresh reports came in on Monday, the quake appeared to be one of China's most severe in recent years.

The team's financial difficulties have been so severe in recent years that it is perhaps a wonder that it still exists.

Japan's economic situation has grown increasingly severe in recent years: the nation's per capita gross domestic product — a measure of economic prosperity — declined from third highest in the world in 1991 to 18th last year, according to the World Bank.

Plausibility and conformity checks have become more severe in recent years.

The environmental stresses caused by climate change have become more severe in recent decades, affecting tree growth and physiology.