But the drastic measures were attacked last night as the latest attempt to dictate to parents how they should bring up their children. |
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This is a very real fear for them, as unemployment has a drastic impact on people's self esteem. |
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In addition to transforming the economy, the railroad boom led entrepreneurs to overspeculate, with drastic results. |
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Our costs are running ahead of income and unless we take drastic action, we will fail. |
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These workers are struggling against drastic budget cuts and staff shortages. |
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No wonder that those who felt vulnerable to such a drastic fiscal reform lashed out, often unreasoningly, to the threat. |
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In addition the work tends to have a less drastic effect upon the landscape in winter. |
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I am utterly unswayed by his attempt to argue one is a drastic departure from the traditional focus, while the other is not. |
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You must take action, drastic action if need be, to remove as much of the stress from your life as possible. |
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The pioneer Exodusters had suffered from the drastic change in climate, most of all because it affected their livelihoods in farming. |
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She would have to make some pretty drastic changes after she was crowned queen. |
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And it gave his life a drastic turn, pulling him away from the ulcerating grind of a big-city businessman. |
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The change was so drastic that it was as if the switch had been flipped to open the flood gates of heaven. |
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This meant a drastic reduction in wages and they were soon beginning to struggle. |
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Union leaders now insist that the levels of violence have become intolerable and drastic measures are needed. |
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Data loss associated with notebooks and portable computers is even more drastic. |
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They felt their salary issues would never get solved unless drastic action was taken. |
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It sounds drastic but we were in a desperate state, now we had something to work with. |
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Large doses of clover or sweet clover, for instance, may cause drastic side effects such as hemorrhaging. |
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Where safety calls for drastic measures such as bollards to be installed, then fixed bollards should be the method used. |
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Other studies of potato chips and chocolate candies show drastic increases in snacking when the subject is given a larger bag of food. |
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The financial handouts for the Association of Banks will be paid for through drastic job cuts in the fields of education and culture. |
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A common, and drastic, mistake in hanging wallpaper is to hang it out of plumb. |
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This suggests that Japan's stagnation will continue absent a drastic shock to the system. |
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The authorities must move now before some drastic fire or accident happens. |
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Staff also say there will be a drastic reduction in beds available for women who need surgery. |
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This was swiftly followed by a drastic cut in the old-age pension, and highly conservative social and cultural policies. |
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Such drastic tactics may be warranted, according to Horne, because the current situation is putting drug agencies in a quandary. |
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Ed Balls, the chancellor's once and future righthand man, gave every indication in the Commons that drastic action could be taken. |
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Even excluding that shift, the labor market is weak, and chances of a drastic improvement anytime soon appear slim. |
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Recourse to sets, on the other hand, is a drastic ontological move, a retreat from the austere ontology of impressions. |
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How can we make sense of such drastic variations of a subaltern woman's identity with the invaluable preciousness of a human life at stake? |
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In addition, a drastic decrease in subsidence rates before the onset of the Late Eocene Pyrenean inversion was determined. |
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Encountering unexpected and unreasonable resistance to her charms, Hepburn's character quickly grasps that drastic measures are required. |
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Drastic cuts call for drastic counter-measures, not weak-kneed objections and compromises. |
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Firstly, they were in regular service for 20 years with nothing more drastic than the provision of standard boilers and superheaters. |
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Politics based upon ethnicity has led to the drastic lowering of the social position of the working class. |
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Flooding in a submarine can present even more drastic problems than on a surface ship. |
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The concept of hormones as potent substances regulating physical processes in organisms implied a drastic change in the paradigm of physiology. |
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Though moderate income inequality may help sustain economic growth, drastic income inequality can choke it off. |
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There are others who are afraid of drastic change, while some are panic-stricken at the mere thought of change. |
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Or, a company may need so much drastic fixing that a full-timer would just be resented too much if he stayed after the storm cleared. |
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In the long run, when children are treated too permissively, their behavior can become bigger and more drastic. |
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The slightest damage done to their reputation may at times lead to drastic consequences like fans immolating themselves. |
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But I'm also petrified of joblessness, insecurity, and drastic changes happening all at once. |
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A major consequence of this was the drastic reduction of the casato's collateral lines. |
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According to Dayton, famines, floods and drastic temperature changes will accompany the melting trend and impact humans directly. |
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The reformist troops weren't rash or impetuous enough to do something so drastic without direct orders. |
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The drastic drop in numbers visiting the countryside has meant a rise in tourist trade to some urban destinations. |
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One of the premier advantages to keiretsu strategies is that it toughens the conglomerate against takeovers and drastic losses. |
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With this equipment, a drastic reduction in technical range corresponds with an increased emphasis on conceptualization. |
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As a result, consumer prices grow, accompanied by a drastic aggravation of service quality. |
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It is likely they would agree that the appointment of a receiver might be the drastic, but necessary, step that is needed. |
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Closing any road is a drastic step, bringing many unwanted and potentially dangerous knock-on effects. |
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There is no doubt that the immigration system of America needs drastic reformation. |
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But don't expect euro-zone governments to do anything drastic about the euro's sagging value on the foreign exchanges. |
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Health clinics in Merril are reporting a drastic increase in depression, and the crisis center is filled to capacity. |
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The police insisted this was a coincidence and urged young people to avoid such drastic and fruitless pursuits. |
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No matter what the approach, drastic measures are needed to stem the latest tide of Yanqui imperialism. |
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It has had a drastic effect on membership and many clubs are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. |
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In the book, he proposed drastic measures to limit emissions, including elimination of the internal-combustion engine. |
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Hence, the shift to the character's present tense is not drastic or striking. |
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Indeed, such measures presume that no reconciliation is possible and that therefore drastic steps are in order. |
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Now, the final nail in the coffin, drastic cuts in the number of days our few remaining fishermen are allowed to fish our own waters. |
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Poverty has also caused a drastic increase in the number of neglected children under the age of five. |
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He blackmails a doctor to perform a drastic surgery, leaving him a true amputee. |
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This book provides a most informative guide to how drastic funding cuts have affected healthcare delivery. |
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The protagonist of Conrad's novel undergoes a drastic change in response to his environment, common only to that specific time period. |
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If God is all forgiving then he will have mercy on us for taking some drastic measures to defend the people. |
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So, taking drastic steps, John resigned from his job and, with his one suitcase, stayed in Southampton. |
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I thought it was going to fell the odd tree and do some coppicing but this was drastic. |
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Windward slopes have gentle rises while leeward slopes can have drastic drop offs. |
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It is the biggest 419 bust in history, and may result in drastic reductions of scam mails. |
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What the annual report does not say, however, is that the uncertainty over what constitutes a First Nation has drastic legal implications. |
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Rasia took no notice of the drastic, rather worrisome change, merely dismissed her own warden and caught hold of my arm in her lily-white hands. |
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With such a rock-solid and steadfast premise, the most drastic changes to the show usually involve cast replacements. |
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Post Office chiefs insist drastic action is needed to stem huge financial losses. |
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Though it may sound drastic, sometimes it's our immediate surroundings that give us cause for irritation and fury. |
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The attornment is much less drastic and intrusive into the rights of the mortgagee. |
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Both have designs on a rich post-secondary career, but did poorly enough on the pre-test to consider drastic measures. |
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Historically, the kind of drastic accumulation I encountered is a brand-new kind of despoilment. |
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Problems such as these, as well as drastic cultural differences, have limited the number of marriages between Saudis and Americans. |
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A frustrated mother, tired of her daughter's bad exam results, lateness and backchat to teachers, decided on drastic action. |
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He was, of course, especially irate as it was two of his staff, so he had to do something drastic. |
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It was a drastic form of eugenics, a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects. |
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This is likely to mean a drastic reduction of overheads and also of headcount. |
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Manners and mannerisms that had earlier stuck with them now undergo drastic changes. |
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If he's saying we're running fifth behind the leader, I know we don't have to make drastic changes. |
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The major damage they cause in grapes, with a drastic reduction in wine quality, is the spread of bunch rots. |
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It'd sound really drastic if I told you they were all bare, but I never realized how much hair I had on my body until I started doing this. |
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He just doesn't agree with the rush to brand it a new mental disorder and medicate without first exploring less drastic options. |
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The epidemic of gun violence in our society calls for some drastic solution. |
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He was doing something much less drastic than severing a digit or limb, but still painful. |
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The method often seems particularly drastic because it runs against the common idea of the non-action principle of traditional Buddhists. |
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These gRNAs mediate drastic editing of many maxicircle gene transcripts by insertion and deletion of uridine residues. |
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Eventually one reaches a stage where the radiation starts to have had a drastic effect on matter. |
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But because it was a small council it did not have the money to make drastic improvements by itself. |
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It will mean an immediate end to all inherited privilege and a drastic reduction in income inequality. |
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You'll also get a head start on drastic end-of-line reductions and special offers. |
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Farmers are calling for drastic measure to cull the population explosion of rabbits. |
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However, the tide of the war takes a precipitous turn, forcing Riley and his commanders to take drastic measures. |
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A moratorium on cod fishing off the Irish coast could soon be in place unless drastic action is taken to protect cod numbers. |
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It would be no surprise to see others follow with similarly drastic measures if we are to avoid some heavy casualties. |
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Seafarers believe that the Government has to take drastic steps to check the flow of workers from Indian ships to foreign vessels. |
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In drastic levels of dryness, this damage may cause the ullage to increase. |
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So why did Roberts, now 24, resort to such a drastic measure to spare her blushes permanently? |
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Food Services is making drastic attempts this year to help cater to the needs of students. |
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It was a drastic shift in policy that ended two decades of routinely evicting squatters. |
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If somebody is sacked or other drastic measures are taken, there is no requirement for them to be mentioned. |
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There was no way of preparing for it without the most horrendous efforts, the most drastic expedients, to drive and dragoon their empire into the twentieth century. |
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His efforts to recover control drove the plotters to drastic action. |
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If you find the doors' frames are too far out of plumb to fix by moving the hinges, a drastic, though not impossible, solution is to remove and re-hang the doorframes. |
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In the summer, I had to do some drastic cutting back of all the wall shrubs, and the cotoneaster was untied and allowed to grow away from the wall. |
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But let's introduce a drastic curtailment of take-away liquor sales, particular on those days of the week when welfare payments are freshly available. |
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These include substandard pay and benefits for new-hires, drastic givebacks in health and pension benefits, reductions in premium pay, and the gutting of work rules. |
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Some taxa evolved drastic changes in life style, such as Amphibia, or in cellular organization, like the glass sponges, without much increase in neural complexity, if any. |
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Since the denialists are denying, drastic measures are required. |
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And our new songs are a drastic departure from what we were doing before. |
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It is a sentiment that has driven previous governments to drastic action. |
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As alarming as parents might find those results, Dr. Temple cautions against jumping to any drastic conclusions. |
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A signal-blocking case might provide a less drastic respite from buzzes and pings and inbox temptation. |
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Sanjiva, from the Uttar Pradesh school of kabaddi and employed with Indian Railways, ruled out the need for drastic changes in the sport, just to cater to growing markets. |
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The government ordered a drastic rationalisation of the industry. |
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Somewhere along the line, incredible economic wealth was destroyed, requiring enormous write-downs and a drastic reduction of the company's net worth. |
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Park employees helped John quit tobacco by way of a butts-proof glass enclosure, a drastic change in diet, and regular exercise. |
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He saw his 1995 tax-reform package as a drastic emergency measure to reinvigorate an ailing economy, much the way a man with heart disease might regard a bypass operation. |
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On a local level, pipeline leaks and spills could have a number of drastic effects. |
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This drastic population decline was mainly caused by the introduction of European diseases. |
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The doc fix is an attempt to prevent doctors who take Medicare patients from having to take a drastic pay cut. |
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It is perfectly legitimate for him, as a strategic measure in that desired direction, to push for a drastic reduction or repeal of the income tax. |
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By the 1980s, Latvian language and culture were on the verge of extinction, and some drastic measures were needed to galvanise them after independence. |
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Such attacks normally took one of two forms, either that of prosecutions and fines at law for misfeasance, or the more drastic resort of attainder and forfeiture. |
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Now I realised that something much more drastic was required. |
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An intensive restudy of these collections by Mary Simon, however, indicated no drastic change in subsistence during the Moorehead and Sand Prairie phases. |
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In the economic life of the country, too, the communist regime sought to exert control through a series of drastic measures that came to be known as war communism. |
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But the idea that technology makes us free has now become a shopworn notion in need of drastic revision. |
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It is essential that we take no drastic actions that would please our own fire-eaters but would drive foreign states into the arms of the terrorists. |
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So all restoring those cuts means is that it will force quicker drastic action on how to keep Medicare solvent. |
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But given the hyperkinetic demands of the modern-day action movie, drastic measures are needed to weld hero and villain together. |
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The drastic move follows a series of thefts and muggings at the church. |
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The business section of the newspaper bewailed the consequences for an already fragile economy and suggested that even more drastic austerity policies were required. |
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Watkins enlarged upon this binocular disparity by tweaking the lenses further apart than was normal to arrive at even more drastic perspectival jumps. |
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The Principal had to take the drastic measure of closing down a professional diploma in electronic publishing when the course leader was lured away by the private sector. |
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Given the enormous British tradition of restraint and moderation, that won't happen this time but a drastic response such as that will surely happen if such attacks continue. |
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To be fair, it is not the only company which will be cutting payouts this year, although it is doubtful many will engage in quite such a drastic slash-and-burn exercise. |
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Until we start taking drastic steps, people are always going to chance it. |
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Orchestras around the country are facing drastic budget crises, worsened by the economic slump and the consequent downturn in attendance as well as in corporate support. |
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The new president announced a drastic reform programme, including measures for oil nationalization, land redistribution, and industrial expansion. |
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Soon there's going to have to be a total sort-out to make more space, but I can probably shove volumes in a few more corners before I have to take that drastic step. |
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This, added to his real concern for the physical and spiritual welfare of Valene and Coleman, propels him to take drastic steps to secure their penitence and reformation. |
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It is incredible that the powers that be refused to engage with such a central character before pursuing their drastic course on the company's future. |
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He then repeatedly had plastic surgery performed on his face to realign his looks to the drastic reshapings of his nose. |
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However, the signals emanating from high-level briefings make it clear that a head of steam is once more building in Washington towards more drastic action. |
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Does it need drastic action by the association of international air lines, in order for those responsible for our fuel management to hearken to the wake up call? |
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Cats, rats, stoats, possums, and ferrets have had drastic effects on native plants and bird species, many of which are flightless and have few defenses against the invaders. |
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The Sri Lankan government has imposed drastic funding cuts to public hospitals and health services for the payment of overtime or extra duty allowances. |
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Although public indignation at the burgeoning Civil List led to some drastic pruning, the Royal supernumeraries continued to live high on the hog. |
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But the odds are higher that I will suffer immediate and drastic consequence from rotten food or impure water than I will from anger, spite and bitter words. |
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There are comb-overs, hair potions, and more drastic transplants. |
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With a steady water supply, Pima culture flourished until the arrival of Euro-Americans and their livestock signaled drastic environmental changes. |
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This is mainly happening as high levels of sample parallelisation deliver drastic cost reductions. |
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The Luddites rapidly gained popularity, and the British government took drastic measures, using the militia or army to protect industry. |
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At this stage, few of the nobles supported such drastic action, and York was forced to submit to superior force at Blackheath. |
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Generally this occurs when there has been a drastic change in the environment within the parental species' habitat. |
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For 1958 drastic rule changes were introduced into Formula One, Fangio had retired and Maserati had withdrawn due to financial difficulties. |
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With crowds dwindling clubs were forced to drastic measures in the hope of survival. |
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The most severe stress resulted from drastic climatic changes, reduced living space, and curtailed food supply. |
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This was just over three years before the Norman invasion of England, which led to a drastic change of fortune for Wales. |
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Several chemical markers indicate a drastic change in the environment around the start of the Cambrian. |
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The Seri people have noticed the drastic decline in turtle populations over the years and created a conservation movement to help this. |
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The drastic reduction in northeastern Atlantic copepod stocks during the late 1960s may be another culprit. |
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Her migration has shown new insight into how endangered species are making drastic changes in their life style. |
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A more drastic method is simply to run a ship through the minefield, letting other ships safely follow the same path. |
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Data from Maine and other North American coasts showed similar declines, although not as drastic. |
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Many local fishermen noticed the drastic decrease of cod and tried to inform local government officials. |
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With these drastic changes, much discussion emerged in the 15th century about the Empire itself. |
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The crisis of the 1990s led to the drastic reduction of the state support for science and a brain drain migration from Russia. |
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This decision was warmly approved by many leading nobles of the court, but Isabella was reluctant to take such drastic measures. |
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The members in the Legislative assembly who are men will not help us in bringing any drastic changes which will be of benefit to us. |
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This drastic economic policy resulted in deep budget spending cuts, such as significant cuts to scientific research. |
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Paula underwent her drastic haircut at the XTG salon in Huddersfield's Byram Arcade, which is run by a relative, Sam Bullas. |
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The Second World War had a drastic effect on the note production of the Bank of England. |
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He said all these measures helped drastic reduction in the number of Deportees on Fake Documents. |
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She believes eating less processed foods, drinking plenty of water and destressing can make a drastic difference. |
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Still, in some ways, however, a dot-commer is really no different than anyone else looking for a drastic change in their life. |
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Therefore, with some drastic move by the government, it will not be easy to eradiate illegal logging. |
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Hydrogeologists have now been hired to solve the puzzle, after authorities ordered a probe into the drastic rise in groundwater table. |
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But instead of using eyebrow pencils to get the same effect, some women are turning to a more drastic solution by having eyebrow transplants. |
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These elitists, including some of the planet's wealthiest individuals, insist that the Earth is so overpopulated that drastic, tyrannical policies must be adopted. |
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As a consequence, specifying works that contain considerable ossia passagework is warranted since they often introduce drastic changes to the song as a whole. |
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Kawai shows the importance of the drastic demand decline and the oligopolistic trends of market structure in explaining the low TFP growth in Japan's manufacturing sectors. |
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Two decades ago scholars, government policy makers, and military cold warriors struggled to decipher the meaning of the sudden and drastic change happening in the Soviet bloc. |
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The mining bee makes its nest under lawns and paths, leaving a conical mound of earth on the surface, but this can be scattered before mowing and doesn't need drastic action. |
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The straight men are a group of sad sacks in need of drastic rehab. |
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After my shock defeat by Michael Smith in the second round at the World Championship, I decided drastic readings on the bathroom scales called for drastic remedies. |
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If all these warning signs don't push countries to take drastic action to cut their carbon emissions, soon we'll need even hotter shades for the weather maps. |
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She had shared his sheets, and, in nightmares of remorse, he had shared her body, waking with drastic regret, feeling as soiled and soilsome as the city itself. |
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Nehru accepted that the bill was not complete and perfect, but was cautious about implementing drastic changes which could stir up specific communities. |
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He believed the sums being asked of Germany in reparations were many times more than it was possible for Germany to pay, and that these would produce drastic instability. |
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This drastic increase led to the creation and implementation of many fishery management policies placing restrictions on the fishing of spiny dogfish. |
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A recent study indicates that the drastic rearrangement of the genome of the accipitrids may have obscured any close relationship of theirs with groups such as the owls. |
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From the 1950s onwards, extensive use was made of artificial fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, leading to drastic changes in the appearance of the landscape. |
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The rebellion thus quickly fizzled out, though no drastic action was taken against the Bruces after they had handed back the castles they had seized. |
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Popper postulates that such purely behavioural changes are less likely to be lethal for the organism compared to drastic changes of the phenotype. |
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Thomas Reid admitted that he put forward a drastic criticism of Berkeleianism after he had been an admirer of Berkeley's philosophical system for a long time. |
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The sudden stop of Gaelic intergenerational transmission, caused by shame and prejudice, was the immediate cause of the drastic decline in Gaelic fluency in the 20th century. |
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But the prerogative of creating peerages rested with the king, who recoiled from so drastic a step and rejected the unanimous advice of his cabinet. |
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The British defeat in the Saratoga Campaign had drastic consequences. |
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Architectural experts say they cannot recall such a drastic midconstruction downscaling, especially of a building designed by a marquee architect, in this case Norman Foster. |
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The drastic interest increase in sports in general and not just one sport caught the attention of travel companies, who then began to sell flights in packages. |
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This drastic method of creating firebreaks was increasingly used towards the end of the Great Fire, and modern historians believe that it was what finally won the struggle. |
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When rumours reached Charles that Parliament intended to impeach his wife for supposedly conspiring with the Irish rebels, the king decided to take drastic action. |
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An expansionistic pricing strategy is a more drastic form of penetration pricing as it implies setting very low prices in order to establish mass markets. |
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