Furthermore, Cyprus was dealt a severe blow by the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion in July 2011, with the cost to the economy estimated at € 1 – 3 billion, or up to 17 % of GDP.

Despite the severe damage the economy of Georgia suffered due to civil strife in the 1990s, Georgia, with the help of the IMF and World Bank, has made substantial economic gains since 2000, achieving robust GDP growth and curtailing inflation.

Latvia's economy experienced GDP growth of more than 10 % per year during 2006-07, but entered a severe recession in 2008 as a result of an unsustainable current account deficit and large debt exposure amid the softening world economy.

However, poor climatic conditions and severe drought badly affected the agricultural sector, thus reducing its share in the economy to about 17 % of 2008 GDP, down from 20. 4 % in 2007, according to preliminary data from the Central Bureau of Statistics.

For most of the period between 1975 and 1990, Argentina experienced hyperinflation ( averaging 325 % a year ), poor or negative GDP growth, a severe lack of confidence in the national government and the Central Bank, and low levels of capital investment.

As the bow of Guerrier came within range, Goliath opened fire, inflicting severe damage with a double-shotted raking broadside as the British ship turned to port and passed down the unprepared port side of Guerrier, and Foley's Royal Marines and a company of Austrian grenadiers joined the attack, firing their muskets.

After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have come back in the last few years, with unemployment down to 5 % in mid-1998, and holding below 3 % since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.

Even if the prison were to be close down, lawmakers were unwilling to let its more severe criminal sociopaths from allowing into America's prisons.

However, growth in 1999 was held down by the severe regional economic dislocations caused by the Kosovo war.

* 1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.

In severe cases, ongoing unlawful conduct by a motel's clientele impacts the neighbourhood as a whole ; some municipalities have adopted a nuisance abatement strategy of attempting to shut down problematic motels under pretexts such as public health and fire safety violations or using taxation laws.

This phantom body pain is initially described as burning or tingling but may evolve into severe crushing or pinching pain, fire running down the legs, or a knife twisting in the flesh.

ABC censors severely toned down scenes to reduce the body count or severe burn victims.

When the treaty was discussed in parliament in December of the preceding year, though suffering from a severe attack of gout, he was carried down to the House, and in a speech of three hours ' duration, interrupted more than once by paroxysms of pain, he strongly protested against its various conditions.

Normalization reinstated the severe censorship of the 1950s, shut down most of the literary magazines and newspapers, and silenced authors who did not conform.

However, after the fall of communism in 1989 many of these factories faced severe problems and subsequently closed down.

However, after the fall of communism in 1989 many of these factories faced severe problems and subsequently closed down.

The pain can be mild to severe cramping that occurs on both sides of the pelvis, in the lower back and rectal area, and even down the legs.

She initially ignores severe headaches and brief episodes of dizziness and double vision, but when she uncharacteristically takes a spill while riding, and then tumbles down a flight of stairs, her secretary / best friend Ann King ( Geraldine Fitzgerald ) insists she see the family doctor, who refers her to a specialist.

Plans for western Europe were less severe, as the Nazis needed local cooperation and the local industry with its workers ; furthermore, the countries were regarded as more racially acceptable, the assortment of racial categories being boiled down by the average German to mean " East is bad and West is acceptable.

During training camp, Grant Fuhr came down with a severe case of appendicitis.

Carloman died on 4 December 771, at the Villa of Samoussy ; the death, sudden and convenient though it was, was set down to natural causes ( a severe nosebleed is sometimes claimed as being at fault ).

Tornadoes are rare, but severe thunderstorms can bring strong winds which can down trees and power lines, as well as cause hail.

On April 27, 2011 a devastating tornado touched down in Ringgold and Catoosa County, leaving a path of severe destruction.

It was used to call the people together until February 16, 1939, when a severe wind blew the old tree down.

Also, the new city council published rules for the city, codified in the ‘ Keurboek van Doetinchem ’ ( Rulebook of Doetinchem ), which laid down severe punishments for infringements.

The hospital later burned down in 1919 dealing a severe blow to the community.

Later on some of the buildings were burned, collapsed, or torn down because of severe damage to the buildings from the tornado.

Only the independent art schools, that is, those not connected with any university or college, receive severe and separate investigation before accreditation by the various regional organizations.

It is evident that the requirements imposed by these effects upon any one detergent constituent acting alone are severe.

Less severe thermal treatment as by blanching or scalding serves to inactivate enzymes.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

Many of the roads also were hit by an unusually severe winter.

Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

The lawyer is an officer of the court and knows that a false swearing by him, if found out, could be grounds for severe penalty up to and including disbarment.

Armenia's severe trade imbalance has been offset somewhat by international aid, remittances from Armenians working abroad, and foreign direct investment.

In the 1890s Australia was affected by a severe economic depression, ending a hectic era of land booms and tumultuous expansionism.

Theodosius had just been baptized, by bishop Acholius of Thessalonica, during a severe illness, as was common in the early Christian world.

* 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

Of all the causes of defection, that connected with arrears of tribute and vessels, and with failure of service, was the chief ; for the Athenians were very severe and exacting, and made themselves offensive by applying the screw of necessity to men who were not used to and in fact not disposed for any continuous labor.

Heavy precipitation ( as sensed by radar ) or severe turbulence ( as sensed by lightning activity ) are both indications of strong convective activity and severe turbulence, and weather systems allow pilots to deviate around these areas.

** Waterhouse – Friderichsen syndrome is adrenal gland failure due to bleeding into the adrenal glands, caused by severe bacterial infection.

The Catholic Encyclopaedia make the point that the oath and the penalties were so severe that it stopped the efforts of the Gallicanizing party among the English Catholics, who had been ready to offer forms of submission similar to the old oath of Allegiance, which was condemned anew about this time by Pope Innocent X.

A kindling effect also occurs in alcoholics whereby each subsequent withdrawal syndrome is more severe than the previous withdrawal episode ; this is due to neuroadaptations which occur as a result of periods of abstinence followed by re-exposure to alcohol.

* 2007: On September 16, 2007, hunter Rick Jacobs captured an image of a supposed Sasquatch by using an automatically triggered camera attached to a tree, prompting a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to say that it was likely an image of " a bear with a severe case of mange.

Lord Cutts ’ column – who by 10: 00 had expelled the enemy from two water mills upon the Nebel – had already deployed by the river against Blenheim, enduring over the next three hours severe fire from a heavy six-gun battery posted near the village.

This was in part due to the sudden switching of troops from the Rhine to reinforce Prince Eugene in Italy, and part due to the deterioration of Baden ’ s health brought on by the re-opening of a severe foot wound he had received at the storming of the Schellenberg the previous year.