Example collocations logo

Drastic in sentence

204 examples of Drastic in a sentence

Conservatives insist on a more cautious approach that avoids the "shock therapy" and drastic overhauls experienced in postcommunist Eastern Europe.
At the same time, with boatloads of migrants arriving from Tunisia, some rather drastic measures have been adopted.
A study in South Africa showed that, overall, girls face a drastic reduction in access to the public sphere – with spatial access falling from an area of 6.3 square miles to just 2.6 – when they reach puberty.
The likelihood that the Fed would have to take drastic steps to curb galloping inflation, together with the effects of the 1979 oil crisis, made a serious recession quite likely.
To centralize these policies, a drastic redesign of the EU political constitution might be needed.
Yet, despite the efforts of international agencies, these vulnerable children will continue to fall through the cracks unless drastic action is taken now.
Stabilization of the public debt has been achieved by a drastic reduction of the government’s deficit from a peak of just under 11% of GDP in 2009 to 6% last year.
The Copenhagen PanicCOPENHAGEN – A sense of panic is setting in among many campaigners for drastic cuts in global carbon emissions.
Russians should not lose heart; but unless we understand the reasons for these failures, and make drastic corrections to our foreign policy, we are doomed to continue suffering defeats and losing status and influence, if not worse.
Rather, it reflects anger and frustration over my insistence on pointing out that drastic carbon cuts make no sense.
In his chapter, Tol shows why grand promises of drastic, immediate carbon cuts are such a flawed strategy.
To put it starkly, such drastic carbon cuts are likely to do a lot more damage than climate change to our quality of life (especially for those in the developing world).
However, less drastic reforms are possible that would reduce the incidence of corruption.
Earlier this month, the chief executive of Airbus called for drastic action to reduce the value of the euro against the dollar by about 10%, from a “crazy” $1.35 to between $1.20 and $1.25.
At the same time, it proposes a drastic reduction in the overall size of the Bundeswehr: from the current 320,000 to no more than 240,000 men and women (yes, women: they will be eligible for practically all military functions).
Defense Minister Scharping who is currently preparing his own proposals for the future Bundeswehr, also envisages a major reduction in the number of conscripts though not as drastic as the Commission wants.
Recent Japanese Coastguard data indicate a drastic reduction in Chinese incursions into the Senkaku/Diaoyu area in the East China Sea.
What is most tragic is that when leaders meet in Copenhagen this December, they will embrace more of the same solution: promises of even more drastic emission reductions that, once again, are unlikely to be fulfilled.
The seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes solved it by the drastic expedient of denying that animals can suffer.
Indeed, the aspiration to maintain market control explains OPEC’s opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, whose implementation might reduce global oil demand by as much as 20%, and its fear that the US might follow Europe’s example and fight oil addiction by a drastic increase in energy taxes.
Often its function is very similar to the old one, but occasionally a drastic change occurs.
But, as the recent study shows, emissions cuts alone cannot save the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and prevent a drastic sea-level rise.
Indeed, a drastic shift in policy is essential to avoid economic collapse.
In his autobiography The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig described a similarly drastic change.
If the price of oil does not rise soon, and Algeria’s leaders are forced to take more drastic measures, social stability could be jeopardized.
A further motive for monetary reform has been to head off more drastic surgery to the established order.
And central banks’ failure to regard their primary job to be the stabilization of nominal income – their failure not only to be good Keynesians, but even good monetarists – raises the question of whether central banking itself needs drastic reform.
In the early 1990s, President Carlos Menem and Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo took drastic actions, reducing budget deficits and ending protectionism.
The Gazpromization of European Energy SecurityThe term “energy security” in Europe has been hijacked to empower suppliers and weaken importers, implying a drastic reduction in competition, rising political vulnerability, and the erosion of the rule of law.
The social and economic consequences of the authorities’ drastic population controls, which reduced the average fertility rate in urban households from about three in 1970 to just over one by 1982, have been dramatic.
Back