21.   While the Caucasus region sees occasional earthquakes, almost no buildings are reinforced against severe structural shocks and relatively small temblors often cause serious damage.

22.   Despite the severe shock in a country largely free of organised violence, Samoa recovered.

23.   The two guides are among the survivors but are in severe shock, according to rescue workers.

24.   Machinery at the installations would have suffered a severe shock at being suddenly shut down at the beginning of the strike, they said.

25.   Queen Elizabeth I had been one of its clients, and the manner of the collapse was a severe shock to the old city establishment.