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Example sentences for "extreme cases"

  • In extreme cases of the latter, the mucous membrane of the lips and of the gums will even show a distinctly yellowish hue.

  • In extreme cases, where the life of the animal depends upon activity, it may be proper to remove both testicles; but this should, if possible, be avoided.

  • Recovery, in extreme cases, usually commences after diarrhoea which had set in has subsided, rather than during its attack.

  • Beef tea is one of the articles which in extreme cases is of great service.

  • Rain-water is generally absorbed by the forest-soil as fast as it falls, and it is only in extreme cases that it gathers itself into a superficial sheet or current overflowing the ground.

  • The appetite may be altogether lost or feeble, or in extreme cases, voracious.

  • As a rule, a patient should never be awakened when sleeping quietly, not even to take medicine, unless in extreme cases.

  • In extreme cases, such as that of Germany under the imperial rĂ©gime, the group individuality may completely overshadow and engulf that of the individual.

  • In extreme cases it has driven men to suicide.

  • The paralysis or complete disorganization of action which occurs in extreme cases of hysteria takes place to some extent in all less extreme instances of emotional disturbances.

  • The Southerner and the Westerner may be conscious in each other's speech of a quaint and curious difference in pronunciation, but they can, except in extreme cases, completely understand each other.

  • Deadly though it be, and dangerous to work with, it has the advantage of being used as a finishing preparation, and therefore need not, except in extreme cases, be handled.

  • Fishes are now and then mounted in halves, should one side be very badly mangled; the effect is not very good, however, and should not be resorted to but in extreme cases.

  • This ought not to be resorted to except in extreme cases, or for other than cabinet specimens.

  • Starches and sugars contained in cereals and legumes, however, should in extreme cases be omitted because they are difficult to digest and to assimilate.

  • Sidenote: Diet in extreme cases of diabetes] In extreme cases the patient should be required to subsist upon Pignolia (the pine) nuts, and green or fresh vegetables uncooked.

  • In extreme cases, a splint may be placed on the anterior bend of the elbow, thus preventing the possibility of raising the hand to the mouth.

  • Extreme cases of chalk or dirt eating have been noted; such tendencies are decidedly abnormal, and require medical attention.

  • Everything known should be tried for the relief of these patients and in extreme cases, when the mother's life is endangered, pregnancy should be terminated.

  • If they do not advocate insurrection, they do not prohibit it; it would be in vain to require them to teach as a dogmatical truth the obligation of not resisting in extreme cases.

  • In extreme cases, and especially when the extensors are completely paralysed, the toes may be flexed towards the sole, and the weight is borne on the dorsum of the foot (Fig.

  • But these are only general truths, applying, again, to extreme cases.

  • The law of the land recognizes this principle, and does not justify the taking of life except in extreme cases, such as those of imminent personal danger.

  • In extreme cases, acts of violence upon persons belonging to one state, when in a foreign state, have led to similar acts upon the part of the state whose subjects are injured against the subjects of the foreign state.

  • In extreme cases a state might order the agent to leave the country, or in case of immediate danger might place the agent under reasonable restraint.

  • Fear may be compared to violent remedies employed in extreme cases--they purge, but they alter the temperament, and reduce the organs to extremity.

  • Lastly, although this advice should not be offered but in extreme cases, we should, nevertheless, engraft on them true principles, and preserve them from imitating all the evil that is set before them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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