• The Internet, "appears to have survived a severe test of the adaptable traffic routing concepts it embodies, " the company said.

    CNN: Networks hit, but telecom stays operational

  • Recently, his belief in Russia has undergone a severe test.

    ECONOMIST: Strobe Talbott, deliverer of Russia

  • The setback is an ominous sign for an economy already facing a severe test in 2011, as the government's fiscal retrenchment moves from plans in Whitehall to reality on the ground.

    ECONOMIST: The surprise fall in GDP

  • It is that community of fate which would have failed if America had deserted its allies in Bosnia and will be put to a severe test if land operations begin in Kosovo.

    ECONOMIST: Defining NATO��s aims

  • Although there are ISDA rules to cover such events, the sheer size of Lehman in the market (its gross derivatives positions will be hundreds of billions of dollars) makes this default a severe test.

    ECONOMIST: The fallout from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

  • If so, the lawyers will be facing the enormous expense of going to trial against a tobacco company on behalf of only six people, a severe test of their solemn obligation to represent their clients through thick and thin.

    FORBES: The Most Credible People On Earth? Cigarette Makers

  • It is also true that Theo Waigel, the finance minister, has put consensus to a severe test by announcing out of the blue that new spending cuts to be taken from welfare may prove necessary this year to permit Germany to join Europe's single currency.

    ECONOMIST: Germany

  • Even as Kenya experienced a severe test to its stability in 2007 when violence broke out following disputed presidential results, studies indicate that community radios fostered national cohesion and played a much more positive role than their commercial partners during the election season, says KCOMNET.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • Dutch researchers are proposing that DNA sequencing replace older forms of genetic tests for diagnosing the cause of severe intellectual disability, the second time in a day that researchers have pushed the emerging technology as a first-choice diagnostic test for severe illness.

    FORBES: DNA Sequencing: Is Science Fiction Becoming Medical Fact?

  • Besides the risk to markets, however, a severe slump in share prices would provide the mutual-fund industry itself with its most severe test to date.

    ECONOMIST: Will investors run for cover?

  • However, the Republicans' solidarity now faces its most severe test on an issue that unites a large majority of voters: the need to rein in Wall Street banks.

    FORBES

  • Yet his response to the abuse crisis, which was ultimately a severe crisis of authority, and arguably the greatest test of the Church's authority since the Reformation, was insufficient.

    BBC: Pope Benedict XVI will step down at the end of the month

  • The combative 28-year-old, South Africa's top bowler in the Test series with 14 wickets, has a severe stress reaction in the second metatarsal.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | Nel faces lengthy injury lay-off

  • In 1999 Isis' (nasdaq: ISIS - news - people ) long-awaited drug for Crohn's disease, a severe intestinal disorder, failed to outperform a sugar pill in a pivotal test with 300 patients.

    FORBES: Antisense and Sensibility

  • Roche is developing a test to predict which rheumatoid arthritis patients will respond to standard medications and which have more severe forms that require expensive new drugs.

    FORBES: Divining Disease

  • It may be unsafe for you to test your child's reaction to eggs at home, particularly if your child has had a severe reaction to eggs in the past.

    CNN: Egg allergy

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