Sentence examples for severely submerged from inspiring English sources

In 2000 the country experienced its worst flood, in which more than 800 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were made homeless when waters severely submerged whole towns.

Such an event could severely submerge the world's heavily populated coastal areas, and force us to redraw the world map as we know it.

Its diffusion from submerged tissues is severely reduced when submerged and as a result its endogenous concentrations significantly increase (Jackson 1985; Voesenek et al. 1993; Banga et al. 1996).

He had been severely beaten and submerged in a tub of water, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said.

If the trend of the analyzed series has small magnitude, it cannot be accurately identified by the MK test, because the trend would be submerged too severely by other components of series to accurately identify trend.

The flooding has severely impeded travel – roads are submerged, trains and flights are delayed.

Using laser-based detection, it was found that ethane emission occurs from rice seedlings which were submerged for several days in the dark, indicating underwater membrane peroxidation and thus severely damaged tissue.

Kent Carper, a county commissioner in Kanawha County, said 50 homes were destroyed, about 25 were severely damaged and about 15 bridges were submerged.

The lower-lying Nicobars were most severely affected, with significant portions of some of those islands submerged by the tidal wave.

Plant tissues in germinating seeds of rice can suffer from hypoxia or even anoxia in submerged paddy fields (Setter et al. 1988; Drew 1990; Greenway and Setter 1996), which could severely limit crop establishment in such soils because the lack of oxygen could hinder the functions of the enzymes involved in mobilizing stored carbohydrates and generating energy by oxidative pathways.

Entire platforms were submerged.