21.   Supported by a vigorous jet stream disturbance, a few of the storms will turn severe with large hail and damaging winds.

22.   The problem is most severe with short-range tactical fighter jets.

23.   Thunderstorms, a few severe with hail and isolated tornadoes, will precede the front in Ohio and Kentucky.

24.   Flosse was equally severe with the Australian media, accusing the press there of inciting separatists in French Polynesia, turning them against France and the local government.

25.   In France, the new law is less severe with Rottweilers and does not mention such breeds as Great Danes, German shepherds or bull mastiffs.

26.   Masaaki Higashida of Nomura Securities said the investment environment has become more severe with deflationary pressure and worsening corporate earnings.

27.   The storms stretching from southern Illinois to Massachusetts could be severe with strong wind gusts and hail.

28.   The backlash was severe with a total strike on the railways and the Paris metro and stoppages gradually spreading to other public sector workers.