Shirley: no, no kidding. I am serious.
They all nod their heads, looking rather serious.
There was a serious motor smash on the bridge.
And yet serious reform efforts are conspicuously hard to find in the Arab world.
Reston species can infect humans but no serious illness or death in humans have been reported to date.
Small size doesn't preclude these servers from serious use; fnord, for example, handles thousands of simultaneous connections.
A bluff, perhaps. But it has raised fears of an impending strike and of a clash of something more serious than words.
And few want to pursue soldiers, even if they were guilty of serious wrongdoing, when virtually all IRA members convicted of terrorist offences were long ago set free as part of the peace process.
Abstract： By tracking the recent discussions in the field of sociology over the state of personal identity， this paper tries to show how the ever-changing and ever-enlarging environment poses an increasingly serious challenge on the self-identity of a modern individual.
Jeff is a serious biker.
Between the copartners serious disagreements arose.
Such grave, serious and experienced ladies well know their meaning.
In June 2nd, the first day we started, six years ago, should we be serious now?
And there are some very serious reasons that led to the condom's production and some very serious reasons why they have the potential for some very severe consequences - both good and bad.
But the biggest giveaway that this isn't a serious research study is the adjectives chosen to describe the two groups of people.
Lamotrigine (in both formulations) can also cause other types of allergic reactions or serious problems that may affect parts of the body such as the liver or blood cells.
After joining WTO, the finance will continue to expand the opening, the number of foreign banks in China will increase quickly and the scales of its business will enlarge gradually, which will lead our state-owned commercial banks to a more serious situation and intensive challenge.
Wound contraction can produce serious functional impairment.
This would be a serious transgression of the law.
A more serious charge against van loon was the sloppiness of his scholarship.
This kind of ethnic rivalry is clearly a serious issue that is placing economic growth and development in jeopardy.
Then his voice grew serious, the way a coach might caution his team about the impending face-off with a deceptively courteous opponent.
a serious student of history.
It can be any kind of trouble — serious or not so serious.
Perpetual waiting is a serious illness. And I think it's time to detox.
"I am all right, it is just a serious case of anemia. Believe me, my parents told me that".
It not only can make you gain serious amounts of weight and disrupt your sleep, it may also cause you to inadvertently eat toxic substances or foods to which you're allergic.
He is awake to the serious problem.
This is the first and most serious example of medical negligence in the island's modern history.
It not only constraint the development of state economy, but also increase polarize very probably, result in labile factor and serious potential problem for social security.
Ranching is serious business in Australia.
The result showed that the south Pujian, in which the serious erosion area lain in the south-east foothill-plain area, was the most serious erosion area in Fujian Province.
Crucially the term misdemeanor did not mean a distinct set of crimes as opposed to felony it referred instead to bad ACTS in the form of exceptionally serious public misconduct.
The United States' budget deficit is a serious problem, and there have been serious proposals to deal with it, such as those by the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson Commission.
I'm not kidding, I'm serious.
And it raises serious legal questions: how can we justify the DE facto inclusion in DNA databases of criminals' family members who have been neither arrested nor convicted?
While postpartum psychosis is a serious risk, it's a risk that can be treated, and often prevented, with medication.
They argue that, without cuts in emissions far more drastic than those volunteered in the Copenhagen accord, there is only the slimmest chance that serious climate change will be averted.
While intestinal bleeding was serious, research suggested that aspirin increased the risk only of less serious cases, said Prof Elwood.
But soon she could see that Prince Charles was serious.
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