Sentence examples for was sufficiently severe from inspiring English sources
The torture was sufficiently severe that the Senate report found Abu Zubaydah would lie down meekly on the waterboard when his CIA interrogator "snapped his fingers twice".
This demonstrates that the stimulus was sufficiently severe that homeostatic mechanisms were unable to maintain normal function.
To the best of our knowledge, there has been only one previous report of a spinal deformity as a complication of osteomalacia that was sufficiently severe so as to require surgical treatment.
The prediction is confirmed: the fossil record documents hundreds, possibly thousands, of "turnover" events, where environmental degradation was sufficiently severe that entire species began to succumb to extinction and new species quickly evolved to populate the newly reconstituted environment.
The crime was sufficiently severe, they said, and he had cooperated with the sheriff's deputies who responded to the 911 call.
The CDR included assessment of whether cognitive dysfunction was sufficiently severe to impair activities of daily living.
It had, first of all, to be "sufficiently severe or pervasive" to "alter the conditions of the victim's employment".
Imposing a charge will mean that fewer people use them, and unless congestion is sufficiently severe to reduce others' enjoyment, less overall welfare will be generated.
Such diminished immune responses, however, seem to be of minor significance to the course of these diseases, although, when the disease is sufficiently severe and prolonged, it can increase the risk of opportunistic infections, which can be fatal.
Harassment creates a hostile environment when the conduct is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent so as to interfere with or limit a student's ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by a school".
They must convince investors that the tests were sufficiently severe to dispel any doubts about the banks' creditworthiness, and lift the cloud that has kept the European financial system from functioning normally.
