Comment: Bergamot severely aggravated the allergy and caused itchy blistering rash.

In his report, Mr. McCall joined Mr. Silver and several elected officials in Manhattan in warning that extending Long Island Rail Road service to Grand Central would severely aggravate crowding on the Lexington Avenue subway line, since the plan calls for completing the tunnel long before a new subway along Second Avenue.

In addition to inflicting financial stress, AIDS may severely aggravate crowding in urban hospitals already troubled by drug-related illnesses and staff shortages.

This situation severely aggravated the governments of Croatia and Slovenia, along with the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo, all of whom soon found themselves in conflict with Milošević (SR Bosnia and Herzegovina and SR Macedonia remained relatively neutral).

"We believe that the egregious nature of the material, as well as the substantial number of days on which such indecent material was broadcast," the commission said, "severely aggravate the violation."

The Pakistan Peoples Party of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, which had emerged as the largest political party in West Pakistan, declared it would boycott the new legislature, which severely aggravated tensions.

That incident ignited a prolonged period of turmoil that severely aggravated the already raw nerves of race relations in the city.

Under any circumstances it would have been an unwelcome alliance; but to have it so clandestinely formed, and such a period chosen for its completion, placed Julia's feelings in a most unfavourable light, and severely aggravated the folly of her choice.

As the whole of continental Europe is dragged into recession by Germany, all its biggest computer companies bar ICL Plc are confronting a crisis severely aggravated by the giant shadow cast by the down fallen IBM.

Mr President, commissioners, Haiti has demonstrated that poverty severely aggravates the damage done by natural disasters, and also that a lack of governability hinders the possibility of an effective response.