This is when the bone breaks the skin.This is very serious.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

He calls it "a very serious problem in the United States."

VOA: special.2010.06.14

Sendak wrote books that were honest and sometimes very serious.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Yet Bucky Fuller was very serious about learning.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Just how serious is the Greek crisis? Very serious, says economist Paula Subacchi of the Chatham House policy institute in London.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

The non-binding resolution expresses "very serious concern" at continuing reports of "systematic,widespread and grave violations of civil, political,economic,social and cultural rights,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

"This is very serious. That's why the rice will not go back to the level that we used to see,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

It is why they dismissed the results from 83 polling stations so of course we have concerns about very serious allegations of fraud."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

U.N.officials described it as a very serious incident and urged both sides to exercise caution and restraint.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"It is a very serious crime, it is also a moral outrage.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"Human trafficking is a very serious problem in the United States."

VOA: standard.2010.05.24

"We have serious problems. We are taking very serious measures.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

"We have been focused on this issue," "We need to make sure that we continue to provide the training, the support that Yemen needs to counter this very serious threat."

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

"It seems that more clarity is likely to emerge about who did what to whom and whether or not war crimes, crimes against humanity and other very serious human rights abuses were committed by one or both sides,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

"Now,the degree which will have on the peace process and other things which are sort of the hard facts of the Middle East,is something else, altogether,as obviously there is a very serious problem with the Israeli government and so on.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09