Sentence examples for drastic at from inspiring English sources

She supports No Child Left Behind, but says that school takeovers are too drastic at this early stage.

The falloff was more drastic at NBC, where a "Dateline" segment on nursing homes drew a 7.2 rating in the first half-hour.

Determined to kill his ailing dad, he goes about it any way he can devise, leaving a window open, emptying the medicine from his capsules, finally attempting something more drastic – at which point the camera swoops up to the sky, as if in vertiginous shock.

It could bode ill for News Corp once the 72-year-old Rupert is gone.Because BSkyB's shareholding is wide and fragmented the biggest single holding, excluding News Corp's, is Legal & General's 3%—it is unlikely that fund managers will be able to muster the votes to do anything drastic at the AGM.

No, that's not drastic at all.

The deterioration in boiling performance was observed to be more drastic at a higher surface roughness.

Bankruptcies at Chrysler and General Motors, resulting in drastic cuts at the automakers and their suppliers, dominated the headlines day after day.

The values of the microhardness reveal an inverse temperature-dependent behavior compared to that of the grain size: a more or less constant value up to 220 °C, a maximum at 370 °C and a drastic drop at 500 °C.

Of note, in the spleen, many of these inflammatory genes were highly elevated at 16 hpi, peaked at 24 hpi, followed by a drastic decline at 42 hpi.

However, there is a drastic increase at pH values below 1.7, 2.1, and 2.7 at 25, 40 and 50°C, respectively.

The Greek government now has to pay higher interest to attract buyers for its bonds at the same time as it faces implementing drastic measures at home to cut its budget deficit.