Still, some soccer experts insisted that spitting was the game's most severe crime.

A more severe crime is punished by a fine of a higher category.

Genocide is considered one of the most severe crimes against humanity.

This is because the most severe crimes committed on Indian Reservations are usually taken to federal court.

Or, perhaps, only such severe crimes can attract national attention to smaller cities.

A trial was soon held, the murder being made a more severe crime for having been committed in the home of a high government official.

The code foresees this punishment to the most severe crimes.

A fine is seldom given to a case of severe crimes, such as statutory rape.

Generally, only very severe crimes are punished with a term in Azkaban.

The trial had gone ahead presumably because the police wanted to get the accused convicted of a more severe crime.