Sentence examples for take severe from inspiring English sources

Obviously I will take severe disciplinary action against anyone you identify as having responsibility.

"I'll take severe measures against those that do," he said on state television last month.

"Our fear was that he would have to take severe action," after years of promising that he would not.

It was not a question of taking one or two pages out of the sports section, and our owners – the Scott Trust and the group board – rightly insisted we take severe action".

Mediator Seyoum Mesfin said leaders of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the regional bloc overseeing the talks, will take severe action against anyone who breaks this latest agreement and report them to the African Union and UN Security Council.

The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly threatened to take severe retaliatory steps against the Palestinian Authority, including cutting off badly needed tax receipts to Palestinian coffers, should Mr. Abbas go ahead at the United Nations.

Both ships took severe damage, Mermaid knocking away several of her opponent's spars, but suffering in turn from the musketry of the soldiers still aboard the Loire.

He said the roadside standoff was aimed at forcing the military government into taking "severe action".

That turns the spotlight on the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, who has been the mayor's handmaiden on altering term limits and whose own credibility took severe hits.

"There are public laws in this state," he said at the time, "and it's our positive duty to deal with fornication just as we do with thievery, lying and cheating, by taking severe disciplinary measures against the offenders".

The latest order is another bold move in a world where most airlines are taking severe hits on their profits.