1.   This financial crisis is growing more serious by the hour.

2.   The financial crisis was growing more serious by the hour.

3.   He can show he is serious by releasing the report.

4.   Quarterback Troy Aikman said he knows the injury is serious by the way Novacek talks about it.

5.   The incident was not considered serious by those who witnessed it....

6.   The injury is not considered serious by the Reds.

7.   The situation is made more serious by the deterioration of almost all the major bilateral relationships in the region.

8.   Yet the matter of what, when and how to eat is considered very serious by many religions.

9.   In that incident, classified as serious by the Ukrainian nuclear energy commission, a nuclear reactor was shut down and officials insisted no radioactivity escaped.

10.   Aid workers say the inundations were made more serious by environmental damage.