Must I take drastic action to get a hearing?

In those countries, drastic action was needed for further debt reduction.

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.

Only very rarely would such drastic action be considered appropriate, and the Board did not find any examples of such action during their review.

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.

The concrete action that they had in mind was getting governments to mandate drastic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.

I'm gonna do something drastic.

First, drastic financial deleveraging is unavoidable.

Any discussion of an Agenda for Development should avoid the renegotiation of commitments, unless these leave room for more drastic and improved action.

In what sense can't it get drastic?

I mean, it can't possibly ever get drastic.

Drastic action is needed to prevent European bond markets from drying up. Trichet has said repeatedly that current ECB interventions do not target interest rates.

Only drastic administrative intervention saved the county from utter destruction.

(c) Drastic wording and far reaching statements should be avoided

Of course, all of this had drastic implications for the economy.

Indeed, a drastic shift in policy is essential to avoid economic collapse.

PARIS The world is witnessing a drastic decline of its natural capital.

Don't you think we're being perhaps just a little drastic with Michael?

Believing, as we do, that the problem can be effectively tackled only by drastic action and decisive international cooperation, we participate in various United Nations bodies combating the spread of narcotic drugs.

But drastic attempts at fiscal consolidation immediately evoke memories of the Great Depression.

In essence, the proposal argues for a drastic transformation of the existing CERF.

Unfortunately, drastic examples of crimes committed against the Serbs have been largely ignored.

Various diseases thrive in this environment, the most drastic of which is called trachoma.

The threat of more malaria has been used to argue for drastic carbon cuts.

These are the most drastic temporary dismissals to take place in Finland since 2000.

This trend was reversed in 1990, however, through a drastic reduction in livestock inventories.

Where the issues are so titanic, the court must mete out more drastic punishment.

In many cases this requires drastic measures, particularly insofar as our physical security is concerned.

Both the world and the United Nations have undergone drastic changes in that half century.

Furthermore, the Turkish military can increase the pressure on Iraqi Kurds with far less drastic measures.

Nor have the more drastic calls for the suspension of some of our activities gone unheard.

Vigorous efforts are needed on the Palestinian side to bring about drastic improvement in security measures.

A drastic reduction in pension benefits (although maintaining the non contributory nature of the pension plan)

The debt strategy should include, among other things, a drastic reduction of debt and debt servicing.

Campaigners across Europe and the US use the threat of starvation to argue for drastic carbon cuts.

And Romney s drastic budget cutbacks, targeted at the poor and middle class, would further impede social mobility.

There is a drastic shortfall of food produced in the country and possible humanitarian aid from outside.

The Treasury Office underwent drastic improvements in revenue collections, especially at the Customs Office and Tax Division.

Though the drastic measure was only marginally successful, it wasn't long before other port cities followed suit.

I was prepared for something even more drastic with you being the black whiskered whale and all.

It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse. Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.

The United States is now taking drastic steps against China, and is making provisions for a trade war.

Even as the risk of recession looms, the country has been forced to implement a drastic austerity program.

In his chapter, Tol shows why grand promises of drastic, immediate carbon cuts are such a flawed strategy.