Sentence examples for drastic countermeasures from inspiring English sources
With the Cold War then at its height, Communist influence within such unions called forth drastic countermeasures by governments, and the 1949 coal strike and 1951 wharf strike, in Australia and New Zealand, respectively, were decisively defeated.
I first saw Village Of The Damned when I was the same age as those creepy alien kids with glowing eyes and David McCallum hairdos, and even then I had no problem with supporting the most drastic countermeasures, up to and including nuclear annihilation.
That fact and the fearsome political cost of an overreaction may make the government hesitant to order up drastic countermeasures on slim evidence, says Bryna Sanger, a professor of urban studies at New York City's New School University.
Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has denounced that effort as "diplomatic terrorism," and threatened countermeasures as drastic as trying to collapse the Palestinian Authority.
Countermeasures have been taken.
Countermeasures greatly reduced losses.
What about countermeasures?
So the countermeasures, the counterchecks".
North Korea yesterday threatened unspecified "countermeasures".
