Sentence examples for severe reckoning from inspiring English sources

Singapore's authorities tipped off police in north-eastern China, who uncovered match-fixing irregularities there, ultimately forcing, in 2009-10, a second, more severe reckoning for Chinese football.

The inherent weakness of its kinematic design leads to this severe dead reckoning error that inevitably accumulates over the distance traveled.

That may make the eventual reckoning less severe.Thirdly, although Thailand is just one of many countries in the region to see export growth falter in the last 18 months, it is unique in facing such an acute structural dilemma.

The Paterson administration argues that the state must begin to reckon with severe future deficits, and this view appears to have the support of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

They reckon that a severe recession in Europe could cost the region's 90 biggest banks €420 billion in losses and consume about a third of their capital, with big shortfalls in Britain, France and Germany in addition to those already emerging in Spain (see chart).A deep recession is not inevitable, and banks would probably be able to generate some of that capital from profits or asset sales.

It can make for a more severe crisis when the day of reckoning comes.

The outbreak is now reckoned to be more severe than the last major scourge, in 1967.

But it reckons that if the severe weather had not occurred the economy would have grown by the same amount over the whole of the first half of 2010, but spread evenly over the two quarters.

By the end of the decade, the '60s had become a time of reckoning rather than partying; of severe, "swingeing" penalties, not drug-taking.

The slow start, many reckon, is attributable to a severe case of cold feet.

After three years of good rains, aid workers reckon that the risk of severe food shortages has, for the moment, receded.