If we assume, for example, that a child is kidnaped and the officers throw a roadblock about the neighborhood and search every outgoing car, it would be a drastic and undiscriminating use of the search.
Subsequently, Clinton's Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enabled a drastic escalation in the use of the death penalty.
"Rethinking Solitary Confinement" (front page, March 11) reports on the Mississippi prisons' drastic reduction in the use of solitary confinement.
The recipe for success in New York has been more cops, smarter policing, fewer guns, a drastic decline in the use of crack and better behavior by young people.
These might include a drastic reduction in the use of stop and search and an improvement in the care of people with mental health problems, as well as wider criminal justice reform.
He said his mind was made up when China threatened "drastic measures" and "the use of force" against Taiwan if it was found to be indefinitely delaying unification talks.
Still, while yesterday's vote made it less likely that there would be drastic restrictions on the use of the drugs in kidney patients, the levels of use are unlikely to return to those common before the safety concerns took hold.
In the absence of photocopying, the financial, time-wasting, and other difficulties of obtaining the material could well lead, if human experience is a guide, to a simple but drastic reduction in the use of the many articles (now sought and read) which are not absolutely crucial to the individual's work but are merely stimulating or helpful.
"And specifically, does the drastic increase in the use of risky financing schemes, including interest-only and even negative amortization mortgages, concern you?" Mr. Bernanke replied that the Fed was reviewing its guidelines for these loans and planned to issue new ones soon.
When the 10 new mainly eastern European entrants join the union next year, the fact that 62% of their political elites claim to master English (compared with just 7% who speak French) will inevitably entail a further drastic reduction in the use of "la langue de Molière".
