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Australia's getting warmer, the fire season's getting longer and the severity of the fire weather during that season is getting more frequent and severe, when we look at the projections that we do for climate change, certainly Australia should be preparing for those trends to continue.

Karl Braganza

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This was a very difficult decision to us but we did release that photo because of the hundreds of messages that I personally have received asking,' Is your father okay yet ? Is he awake ? How's he doing ?' we started realizing people did not understand the severity of this attack.

Nicky Kohen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter.

Eva Longoria

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I would agree with FEMA's current assessment, that they're sitting fine as far as funding is concerned, but future events between now and the end of September could change that. It depends on how many( disasters occur) and the severity.

Mark Misczak

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Custodial sentences and criminal fines will be sought against the accused ... given the severity of the scheme to defraud and fraudulent misappropriation of billions in bond proceeds.

Attorney General Tommy Thomas

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I have not seen a wound of this severity, ever.

Eric Toschlog

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Hepatitis A virus can result in a liver infection that may be inapparent. However, when symptoms occur, they can range in severity from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a severe illness lasting several months.

The FDA

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s a lot to take in. It’s scary... I just keep explaining the severity of it to my children... keep everybody in your prayers because they need it and God listens.

Rebeca Stewart

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

With the severity of the rough I'll have to drive the ball at my best, i can make some pars out of the rough but you're not going to win the tournament playing out of the rough.

Phil Mickelson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Read MoreThe increase's not just that there's more attempts, Read MoreThe increase's also the outcomes ; the severity is increasing, as well.

Henry Spiller

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Carbon dynamics after a storm are hard to understand but after a storm a forest loses a lot of carbon and then regains it as it regrows, so we're looking at the long-term average, if bad storms become the norm, if a storm of Maria's severity becomes the average storm in the French Caribbean, we expect the forest will store less carbon because trees don't have time to get big. We expect the net balance to be negative -- that's not published yet but that's what our models are showing.

Maria Uriarte

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If you become sick, please call your health care provider, because they may well provide a prescription for antiviral drugs that can help reduce the severity and duration of your illness.

William Schaffner

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The number of calls we get are increasing. The severity of some of the problems we're seeing is increasing. Whether more people are calling because there's a greater awareness in the community or whether there's more problems, I guess it would be nice if we had information from [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] about that, but the fact of the matter is, we'll get six to eight calls a day in our law firm, certainly, there's good nursing homes out there, but there's also nursing homes that are focused on their profits as opposed to the care they're giving, and that's what we try to focus on to change.

Mark Kosieradzki

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our hospital has continued to see an increase in young children presenting to the ED ; however, the severity of symptoms appear to be less.

Sam Wang

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Chinese law stipulates that during an appeal, only if new evidence is discovered and retried can there be an increase in the severity of a sentence, they are not new facts so you cannot increase the severity of the sentence.

Zhang Dongshuo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

That this hateful act took place on the last night of Hanukkah when our Jewish community members were celebrating the survival of their religion, makes it even more reprehensible, messages of hate, while becoming more and more prevalent in our country, have no place on our campus and will be treated with the utmost severity.

Dennis Craig

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Washington Redskins fully understand the severity of the recent allegations made against Reuben Foster, if true, you can be sure these allegations are nothing our organization would ever condone.NFL linebacker Reuben Foster released by 49ers after arrest on domestic violence charge.

Doug Williams

Found on CNN
6 years ago

There are people in Houston who get it, that climate change contributed to the severity of the rainfall in Hurricane Harvey, as those impacts pile up, I think that also will have a political impact in those red states.

David Doniger

Found on CNN
6 years ago

In general, seizures are uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain. Seizures can have a wide variety of effects depending on the type, severity and focus, epilepsy is diagnosed when seizures occur repeatedly. Photosensitive epilepsy affects a very small percentage of those with epilepsy.

Kristin Supe

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The finding that was most surprising was the proportion, and the severity, of the exposures among the adolescents that were due to intentional exposure. We had three deaths, and all three were in the teenage group.

Gary Smith

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I see little public value in issuing a liquor license to Taco Bell and enormous costs for the residents of Madison and our city government, in the meantime, the violence at downtown locations associated with liquor is only growing -- growing in terms of frequency, in terms of location, and in terms of severity.

Paul Soglin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What that entails will scale based on the severity of what was done and what the victim wants and needs, some victims may need more repair than others. Some victims may want more repair than others. We should be asking what do they want, what does the community want, and not what does Shaun White want.

Lesley Wexler

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The long-term impact willlikelybe greater, as this breach impacts millions of consumers who trust Equifax with their most personal information, and trust is at the core of their business, based on its severity and the sheer numbers involved, a breach like this will displace consumer trust, and potentially wipe out additional value quickly.

Bill Mann

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

They most likely won't address this scandal because of the severity of the new revenge porn law.

Kevin Blatt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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