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How to use drastic in a sentence

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But the drastic measures were attacked last night as the latest attempt to dictate to parents how they should bring up their children.
This is a very real fear for them, as unemployment has a drastic impact on people's self esteem.
In addition to transforming the economy, the railroad boom led entrepreneurs to overspeculate, with drastic results.
Our costs are running ahead of income and unless we take drastic action, we will fail.
These workers are struggling against drastic budget cuts and staff shortages.
No wonder that those who felt vulnerable to such a drastic fiscal reform lashed out, often unreasoningly, to the threat.
In addition the work tends to have a less drastic effect upon the landscape in winter.
I am utterly unswayed by his attempt to argue one is a drastic departure from the traditional focus, while the other is not.
You must take action, drastic action if need be, to remove as much of the stress from your life as possible.
The pioneer Exodusters had suffered from the drastic change in climate, most of all because it affected their livelihoods in farming.
She would have to make some pretty drastic changes after she was crowned queen.
And it gave his life a drastic turn, pulling him away from the ulcerating grind of a big-city businessman.
The change was so drastic that it was as if the switch had been flipped to open the flood gates of heaven.
This meant a drastic reduction in wages and they were soon beginning to struggle.
Union leaders now insist that the levels of violence have become intolerable and drastic measures are needed.
Data loss associated with notebooks and portable computers is even more drastic.
They felt their salary issues would never get solved unless drastic action was taken.
It sounds drastic but we were in a desperate state, now we had something to work with.
Large doses of clover or sweet clover, for instance, may cause drastic side effects such as hemorrhaging.
Where safety calls for drastic measures such as bollards to be installed, then fixed bollards should be the method used.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The irritability of the stomach forbids the employment of drastic purgatives, yet podophyllin resin is warmly commended by Dobell.
Then we should have had a drastic representation of the depraved derelicts.
Again dessication of the Great Basin caused drastic restriction of shrew habitat.
Dan Hicks explained the situation and the just cause for drastic action which they held against the fugitive in the shaft alley.
In the Middle Ages they thought to reduce its harmfulness at least by direct elimination, hence the use of drastic purgatives.
It is a powerful irritant, and is employed medicinally as a drastic and hydragogue cathartic.
The reduced manpower ceilings imposed on the Navy, even during the Korean War, had caused a drastic curtailment in recruiting.
They suffered no drastic loss of touch with undergraduate thought and life.
Because of it relations with other persons undergo a drastic change.
In fact, the financial choices that the Michaels of the world have to make seldom involve options as drastic as bankruptcy.
Wrench did not neglect sending the usual white parcels, which this time had black and drastic contents.
So, at the time of his Patagonian fever, the very thought of so drastic a remedy was sufficient to cure him.
Even when the country was on its knees in the 1980s such drastic action would not even have been considered.
But the 5000 deaths in New York and Washington, DC, forced it to take drastic action.
He felt that the time had come for action of a quick and drastic nature.
Pales before the drastic preachment of the Norwich scientist.
Doans Dinner Pills contain two drastic purgatives, podophyllin and aloin.
Promises and agreements were broken, and most drastic punishments visited upon even petty offenders.
No matter what others may want, these people want a drastic economy.
But an unspoiled boy would not have needed that drastic medicine.
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