That argument looks distinctly hollow after yesterday's defeat.After the vote, in an unusually severe statement President Giorgio Napolitano asked whether the governing majority was "able to operate with the constant cohesion needed to … [provide] adequate solutions to the most urgent problems of the country".In the medium term, let alone the long, the answer to that is almost certainly "no".
The National Consultative Committee for Ethical Issues (CCNE) issued a severe statement on June 28th, 2007 denouncing a mechanism, which "privileges counting technical acts to the detriment of listening to patients or time-consuming precise physical exams, leading to considering many patients as "unprofitable", particularly in general medicine, psychiatric, gerontology or pediatric units".
Blue represents a severe weather statement; orange means severe thunderstorm warning.
Words are important, and accusations can lead to severe consequences," the statement continued.
The scale of the misreporting is so severe – amounting to profit statements three times their original value - that the Japanese government warned it could undermine investors' confidence in the country.
There are severe inconcistencies between the statements, 'confessions' of the putschists and what has been told to the public".
Official condemnation of the act has been far swifter and more severe than the routine statements issued by Pentagon spokespersons after the mere bombing of a village and the deaths of disputed numbers of women and children.
And "Tapiola," a twenty-minute tone poem conjuring the Finnish forest, turned out to be Sibelius's most severe and concentrated musical statement.
In Rome, Nakagawa, along with other G-7 finance ministers and central bank heads, agreed that the state of the world economy was dire, describing it in a statement as "severe".
