Drastic cuts in public spending any time soon, as proposed by several of these candidates, look wildly irresponsible given the headwinds the US economy is facing from abroad.
Only if that capacity were used up would National Grid be forced to consider dimming lights, telling companies to reduce energy use or other drastic measures, Fletcher said.
The decline of the marsh fritillary vividly demonstrates the drastic loss of 97% of UK wildflower meadows since the second world war.
Giving evidence to the committee, the chancellor defended the drastic action he was forced to take to get the country out of the "financial danger zone".
Pensioners will have their pensions cut, they will have to work for longer, we will see a drastic reduction in public-sector jobs and public services.
The drastic cut was part of a Dutch government decision taken last year to slash the culture budget of €800m by 25%%.
Dinosaurs embody the drastic changes that life on Earth has undergone, and give us access to some of the most powerful truths our species has come to understand – that our planet has an incredibly deep history, that life has changed constantly through time, and that extinction is the fate of all.
Without such a long-term context to short-term decision-making, short-term targets risk being inconsistent with long-term plans, ultimately necessitating more drastic mitigation strategies in the future to counteract earlier policy short-sightedness," it said.
We must be the party of drastic political reform.
How, for instance, Great Britain, which hastily drew arbitrary lines in the sand in too many places, condemning hundreds of millions of people across the world, from Ireland to Kashmir, Sudan to Palestine, to decades of violence and hatred, should now be facing drastic scission.
Former SDLP Vice-Chairman Tom Kelly wrote a courageous newspaper piece right after the elections, facing up to the result, but proposing drastic strategic change for his party, if a fight-back was to be possible.
