Sentence examples for drastic act from inspiring English sources
Female circumcision she said, was a far more drastic act.
Their father said that he disowned his boys — a drastic act in Bedouin culture — after they grew beards and began preaching an extremist religious ideology, telling him he did not dress right, or pray right, or eat right.
No simple diagnosis exists to determine whether someone is eligible for a sex-change operation or "gender reassignment", which can of course mean everything else that leads up to the drastic act of genital surgery, such as psychological counselling and hormone treatment.
While we associate haircuts in pop culture with positive outcomes — a post-breakup fresh start, a makeover — the drastic act of shaving one's own head takes on a different meaning.
From what I've gathered from my time in the Bosnian prison system, any type of escape attempt is interpreted by the guards as a drastic act of attention seeking.
Politically, Neal is "acceding to the notion" that even beginning the process to obtain Trump's tax returns is an "outrageous or drastic" act of a partisan nature, Hauser argued.
Two elements of those drastic acts should be noted.
"The Tibetan Parliament is deeply aggrieved by the incidents and condemns the Chinese authorities for resorting to such drastic acts of force and repression," the exile government said.
With just 34 foreign imports allowed to compete for China's rapidly expanding cinema market in any given year, such drastic acts of appeasement are becoming commonplace.
But the wave of self-immolations in Tibet, mainly in the two years since he announced his retirement (see our post on Analects, February 15th), has kept him at the centre stage of Tibetan politics.The Dalai Lama denies that he has encouraged these "drastic acts" (107 of them, resulting in 88 deaths, according to Tibetan exiles).
John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977) is an archive of methods to shatter old human verities: characters die and are reborn as clones, change sex with ease and alacrity, make backup tapes of their personalities, and undergo drastic acts of surgery all in a space-dwelling society that accepts such things as normal.
