Baseball's problem has not reached the magnitude of hockey's, so perhaps 10-game suspensions would be unnecessarily severe.

The German army discontinued use of the sawback bayonet in 1917 after protests that the saw-toothed blade caused unnecessarily severe wounds when used as a fixed bayonet.

Whiteside wrote that this "seems to us an unnecessarily severe form of self-denial, even for a No. 1 Peace Corpsman."

Indeed, the main criticism of the early Thatcher period is that the retrenchment was unnecessarily severe.

Mr. Sharon's initial action in this regard, sealing off the Palestinian city of Ramallah, seemed unnecessarily severe.

"Your condemnation is unnecessarily severe, William," Edgar demurred.

His glance seemed unnecessarily severe; there was that in his attitude which got Kinkovsi's back up.

So they went away, the two girls avoiding each other's eyes, and Mumma unnecessarily severe with everyone, because she was frightened she would burst into the tearing sobs which were knocking at her breast.

Even there, however, Mr. Fischer cannot escape the critics who argue that those same high interest rates choked off growth and fostered unnecessarily severe recessions.

I would ask you to respect this text, rejecting unnecessarily severe amendments to the text. It is already very demanding and should avoid the even more constraining and unrealistic standards of the rapporteur.