Sentence examples for drastic means of from inspiring English sources
Thatcher's great friend Augusto Pinochet used machine guns to control labour, whereas Thatcher used the less drastic means of anti-union laws.
Administration officials said the decision to narrow the case and seek a far less drastic means of regulating Microsoft's practices rather than splitting up the company was motivated by two forces.
The most drastic means of controlling the temple estates was to completely revise the distribution of their property nationwide, which might extend to closing down certain temples.
The massive security presence is apparently serving to provoke locals into increasingly drastic means of self-expression: Over 25 ethnic Tibetans have set themselves on fire in the past year, according to the BBC.
When small countries feel threatened and have few options, they will be more prone to seek drastic means of safeguarding their security like weapons of mass destruction, even though that may make them less secure in the long run.
Motivated by religious and political rather than economic considerations, he wanted to stop a controversy that could be solved only by drastic means in view of the failure to assimilate the Moriscos with the Spanish Christians.
And, for me, "least drastic means" is a slippery slope, and also the signal of the result the Court has chosen to reach.
Given the drastic nature of mandamus and this Courts holdings that the writ may not issue while alternative avenues of relief remain available, the Government cannot be faulted for attempting to resolve the dispute through less drastic means.
In their smokier moments, Srnicek and Williams encourage "postcapitalist" change across society, often through drastic means.
As a result of developments in mobile technologies, this time credit cards themselves are facing a drastic transformation by means of increasing penetration of smartphones, at least materially.
The most drastic and obvious means of marrying these two ambitions evaporated after I learned from Paul that within minutes of my departure they had changed the security entrance code.
