There is much to choose from, but let's look at just a few of the more drastic notions that have become mainstream, ideas that would have resulted in instant political death just a decade ago.
The notion that this drastic policy might have almost no effect on reducing net immigration was extremely unwelcome and, the government clearly felt, best kept quiet.
It is also a drastic departure from the entrenched notion of bookies operating out of basements or back offices, with jumbles of phone-line wires, drop safes and handwritten ledgers.
Now, as then, much of the political and media establishments have bought into the notion that we must take drastic action quickly, even though there hasn't been any new information to justify this sudden urgency.
The 20th-century philosopher and author, Eric Hoffer, succinctly explains this notion: "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.
Consistent with the notion that PCM undergoes a drastic expansion at the onset of mitosis, Pericentrin, Cep192 and Cep215 formed large extended networks in mitotic cells (Fig. 1B, right panels).
Terrorism came to be associated with drastic abuse of power and related to the notion of tyranny as rule based on fear, a recurring theme in political philosophy.
Testaverde rejects the notion that the Jets and Groh should do something drastic -- such as employ a no-huddle offense.
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.
The Aβ staining in the cerebellum was completely restricted to the intraneuronal compartment further supporting the notion that intraneuronal pathology is instrumental in neuron loss and that extracellular plaque deposition has no drastic effect on cell survival.
