Children are particularly at risk, and can be scarred for life from a serious encounter.

The incident has been widely viewed as one of the most serious racial encounters in New York City in years.

The local population managed to push back the Czechoslovak troops in a serious military encounter in which many of the civilian participants lost their lives.

At dawn on Monday, February 24, the first serious encounter with government troops occurred.

His first serious encounter with Christianity occurred as a young man at Sapporo Agricultural College.

Arguments, particularly between priests of differing faiths, were general throughout the building, often becoming more serious encounters.

The only serious encounter with the police of which he was aware occurred outside a residential building in Chelsea.

They have experienced much more serious encounters with deer damage, an increasingly serious problem for gardeners and farmers as well.

The gravity of the situation was clarifying; this was indeed a deadly serious encounter.

Not merely because he performed creditably in his first serious encounters with the world's greatest; others have done that too.