In a storm, the ship could be driven on to land and severely damaged or sunk.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Public health officials reported in January that seventeen percent of American children are severely overweight.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

"Otherwise," said the Justice, looking severely over his glasses, "you are in contempt of Court."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

And this,it says, is severely threatening progress that has been made for children in some developing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

His house was severely damaged by the quake. He and his family are now renting an apartment in Pescara,Abruzzo's - a modern city on Italy's Adriatic coast.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

In these risks, most severely affect the poor.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

"But the real heroes that day were those 32 men that after they saw their comrades, the first four me on the boat cut in halfor shot to pieces, two very severely and two dead, they still climbed over the bodies and did their job."

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

But the credibility of government officials was dented this week when journalists from Saratov, one of Russia's most severely drought stricken regions, recognized their governor in a You Tube video of Russians detained on July 9th on a yacht near Sicily.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23