The phrase 'severe settlement' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a settlement or agreement that has very strict requirements or conditions. For example, "The two sides agreed to a severe settlement that would limit the company's activities."
At the time, he said that its recommended sentence of 9 to 11 years was "too long a time and too severe"; the new settlement carries a maximum sentence of 7 years.
After all these years, what is still needed are cases with convictions and settlements severe enough to deter future bad behavior.
The Wenchuan earthquake, which happened on May 12th, 2008, caused severe damage to settlements of the Qiangs in the upper reaches of Min River, including the "Tangping Qiang village," which plays a prominent role in Qiang stockaded villages.
LAST month Microsoft may have won a momentous victory against a humiliating break-up or other severe penalties with the settlement of the long-running antitrust case brought against it by America's federal government.
North Carolina had required the family of a girl known as E.M.A. to set aside one-third of a $2.8 million settlement for severe injuries suffered during birth that left her deaf, blind, unable to walk, talk or even swallow and required skilled nursing 12 to 18 hours a day.
They know that at Camp David in 2000, Ehud Barak offered severe cutbacks in the settlements and all Israel got was further Palestinian rejection and suicide bombs.
It triggered numerous landslides over a broad area, some of which dammed rivers, posing severe threats to downstream settlements.
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (M w 7.9) in China triggered numerous landslides over a broad area, some of which dammed rivers, posing severe threats to downstream settlements.
Multidrug-resistant strains and persistence of the pathogen in natural foci near human settlements pose severe risks to populations in plague-endemic regions and require outbreak response strategies.
Deeper concrete elements are shown to have less severe shrinkage cracking when no settlement cracking is present, while when combined with settlement cracking at similar cover depths the cracking is more severe in deeper concrete.
