Example collocations logo

Drastic in sentence

204 examples of Drastic in a sentence

Conservation With a Human FacePARIS – The world is witnessing a drastic decline of its natural capital.
And Romney’s drastic budget cutbacks, targeted at the poor and middle class, would further impede social mobility.
A drastic reduction of CO2 emissions is an urgent priority, but fusion is unlikely to produce sufficient energy to achieve that goal before the twenty-second century.
One explanation for the drastic budget cuts of recent years is that public health institutions usually operate with little fanfare and out of the public eye.
PARIS – Squeezed by low oil prices and Western sanctions, Russia’s fiscal position is crumbling fast, forcing the government to take increasingly drastic measures to contain the budget deficit’s growth.
These five pillars involve drastic choices, but they will probably require less money from Europe’s taxpayers, not more.
Moreover, Bush’s proposals won’t fix social security – unless they are accompanied by drastic benefit cuts.
In Zimbabwe, Bush has not said or done anything so drastic.
Even as the risk of recession looms, the country has been forced to implement a drastic austerity program.
To curb the public deficits that such policies entail, the franc-zone countries underwent drastic structural-adjustment programs throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Poverty rates in the region have fallen slightly in the last two decades, but to reduce the drastic levels of inequality, there needs to be a serious commitment to policies that encourage the poor to acquire the means to escape poverty in the future.
If the US embarked on a similar plan, the cost and the benefit would probably be on a similar scale: a two-centimeter reduction in sea-level rise by the end of the century at a net cost of about $500 billion annually.Consider this extremely unrealistic scenario: even if we almost immediately could get the entire world – including China and India – on board for drastic carbon cuts, and even if we would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere toward the end of the century, we could reduce sea level rise by only 18-45 centimeters by the end of the century.
Consider this extremely unrealistic scenario: even if we almost immediately could get the entire world – including China and India – on board for drastic carbon cuts, and even if we would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere toward the end of the century, we could reduce sea level rise by only 18-45 centimeters by the end of the century.
First, drastic improvements in water-related services – including supply and sanitation, irrigation and drainage, energy, and environmental facilities – are needed to improve health outcomes and enable more people to escape poverty.
These drastic scenarios might not materialize if the world succeeds in mitigating climate change.
Similarly, over-fishing of sharks in the Caribbean has triggered a rise in octopus and a drastic drop in spiny lobsters and scallops – two major sources of revenue for neighboring coastal communities.
The coming year will see a further drastic cut in imports.
A number of countries have already been forced into drastic budget cuts, which have had a knock-on effect on standards of living.
Without drastic reform of the social state, European fiscal policy will continue to have feet of clay.
The dramatic weakening of the US dollar may help America to narrow its massive trade deficit, but we should not expect any sustained improvement without drastic changes in American management.
COPENHAGEN – Advocates of drastic cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions now speak a lot less than they once did about climate change.
But the real change that is needed is the realization that drastic, early carbon cuts are a poor response to global warming – no matter how they are packaged.
Countries who try to keep their economies growing too fast for too long, using drastic steps such as large tax cuts or highly expansionary monetary policies, frequently end up in a financial mess that takes years to clean up.
It is easy to imagine disasters so severe that drastic action to prevent them would be reasonable, and advocates of drastic action can easily scare the public with imagined disasters.
It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse.
At that point, the precautionary principle might suggest that we take drastic action to stop burning fossil fuels.
Drastic action is needed to prevent European bond markets from drying up.
The Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe composed of independent experts on constitutional law, described the new legislation, together with drastic changes to the Hungary’s judicial system, as a threat to fundamental democratic freedoms.
A less drastic step that the US might take would be to move Election Day from Tuesday, when some people cannot leave work, to the weekend.
Consequently, the need for drastic change in the structure and style of a previously reality-impaired regime has finally begun to sink in.
BackNext