Sentence examples for unprecedented severity from inspiring English sources

Yet, since the autumn, the speed with which Japan's industrial output and exports have fallen almost certainly signals a slump of unprecedented severity, making Japan's several post-bubble recessions look mild.

That perception has changed dramatically in recent years, after several outbreaks of unprecedented severity, with increased frequency of complications such as septic shock, toxic megacolon, colectomy, and death were reported in the United States and Canada [ 3, 4].

IRAN is facing sanctions of unprecedented severity.

The unprecedented severity of Gen. William T. Sherman's march through Georgia and South Carolina challenged Americans' already dark humor.

Bondholders had little choice but to accept the loss of two-thirds of their capital a haircut, in the jargon, of unprecedented severity.

The league's ire with a team that has won three Super Bowls in six years and that until last week was considered a model of success was obvious in the unprecedented severity of the punishment.

Ofcom and the broadcaster's own board thought otherwise, delivering judgments that were unprecedented in their severity.

The company cited the "unprecedented rapidity and severity of the global economic downturn," and said it was shedding 14,000 jobs, 8,500 of them contract positions.

Ever alert to the shock of the new, in 1910 the Observer reported that rehearsals for Richard Strauss's Elektra at Covent Garden were of "unprecedented length and severity".

UN sanctions between 1990 and 2003 amounted to an economic siege, unprecedented in its severity outside military conflict, that destroyed the Iraqi economy and reduced millions to poverty.

Climate change has contributed to the unprecedented extent and severity of this outbreak [62].