Sentence examples for raised drastically from inspiring English sources

Fuel prices were raised drastically on Sunday, as Tehran tries to phase out subsidies.

Ireland's income tax rates, low by European standards, must be raised drastically, Mr. Lenihan said.

The U.S. Mail was expensive, since postage rates for newspapers had been raised drastically by the War Revenue Act of 1917; it also took several days for the papers to reach some customers.

The value of bitcoin itself could raise drastically.

Vanity and insincerity are rarely disqualifiers in New York real estate development, but money has always carried a big stick, and in 1873 insurance companies raised premiums drastically.

In 2007, the director of Citizenship and Immigration Services under former President George W. Bush raised fees drastically and declared that the era of bad faith and slow service was over.

Support raised most drastically in Saskatchewan (where it went up 18percentt), in Quebec (13 percent), and Ontario (11percentt).

That's the province of the French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy, who pretty much raised the drastically unbuttoned, Gallic chest-baring mannerism of unfastening his always dashingly white shirt nearly to his nether regions to the level of provocative high art.

By arranging to buy a flat amount of 200 megawatts of electricity -- rain or shine, in mild weather and during heat waves -- the Suffolk agency would be sheltered from the sort of market fluctuations that can raise prices drastically during times of peak demand.

The city looked the other way while the Metropolitan Transportation Authority drastically raised transit fares.

He drastically raised the visibility of the Nets when he led them to the N.B.A. finals in 2002 and 2003.