And for many, the coup de grace came in 1985, when a plague of algae blooms of unprecedented severity first struck East End waters.

In 1969, he and Grimsby Town player Graham Rathbone were sent off for fighting, and each received an eight-week ban, "suspensions of unprecedented severity", according to The Times.

Nearly three decades of war and neglect have left Afghanistan ill prepared to cope with the unprecedented severity of the drought, officials say.

Our entire world was suddenly in the throes of an epidemic of unprecedented severity and mortality.

And recipients who break the rules are facing penalties of unprecedented severity.

The court also praised the crew who, with the exception of three men, resisted the American attempts to "wean them from their allegiance, under circumstances of unprecedented severity exercised towards them."

That winter, known as The Hard Winter, due to its unprecedented severity, over ten thousand soldiers of the Continental Army encamped upon her father's 1400 acre property in Jockey Hollow.

On the contrary, the European Union has sent a message to the Palestinian Authority, whilst the press has highlighted the unprecedented severity of its tone.

In November 2003, Israel's defence minister Shaul Mofaz has made what sources have described as a warning of "unprecedented severity."

He was soon replaced by his deputy, General Abacha, who threw Mr. Abiola in jail on treason charges and has governed Nigeria with unprecedented severity ever since.