The move by OMB to cut and revise $337 million worth of IT contracts shows some seriousness on the side of the CIO to address failing projects.
But they do submit to 75 minutes' probing with good humour, some seriousness, flashes of irreverence, much warmth and a dash of self-mocking.
Whether absence from a genome assembly reflects true absence, or incompleteness of the assembly, presents a further problem of some seriousness [ 68].
While he is anxious to get back into climbing full-time after five years spent sequestered in north Wales writing his book, Dawes finds some of the seriousness of current climbing – with its emphasis on sports science, regimes and training programmes – "tight-lipped" and lacking in the sense of play that inspired him.
Although measures against pollution have had some effect, the seriousness of this problem has not alleviated… However, recent atmospheric pollution has really sounded a warning to us: if we continue this way of development instead of adjusting it, the long-term damage will be serious.
I would reply that it is an ineliminable feature of human life that we are confronted with many issues that are not scientifically tractable, but we can grapple with them, understand them as best we can and we can do this with some rigour and seriousness of mind.
The frequency and, in some cases, the seriousness of athletic injuries has increased, alarming distinct types of sports professionals, who believe psychological factors to be relevant in research into improved rehabilitation.
Experts say such an attack would be feasible, but some questioned the seriousness of the plot, given that there are so many easier ways for active shooters to cause mass casualties.
The expression "several times" is, objectively, a vague specification of prevalence and is open for interpretation, but it indicates some regularity and seriousness of pain.
The desire or lack of desire to see one's own image was also linked for some with the seriousness of the ailment, or the danger of planned procedure.
