Sentence examples for required drastic measures from inspiring English sources

Order required drastic measures, and taxation was heavy and sharply collected.

The country's ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, decreed the law, known as the National Accountability Bureau Ordinance, soon after taking power in a coup in October 1999, arguing that rampant public corruption required drastic measures.

Mr. Wen and others for years have resisted setting total energy consumption goals and have only issued efficiency goals — precisely because overall consumption goals could require drastic measures to meet if the economy surges.

Alcohol is depicted as either fun, as in the red wine fests on the ABC sitcom "Cougar Town," or it's a life-destroying scourge that requires drastic measures, as on "Intervention" on A&E or "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," which returned last week on VH1 for a fourth season.

Besides, drastic times require drastic measures.

In other words, improving commuters' lives doesn't always require drastic measures.

Isn't it instead an example of how drastic times require drastic measures?

The point here is that the people at the very top have already aggrandized so much in the form of interest, dividends, capital gains and government subsidies that it would require drastic measures to prevent the current inequality gap from continuing, inexorably, to widen.

Only a tiny fraction of situations truly require drastic measures.

"The ongoing situation is drastic, and we need to take drastic measures," the plea continued.

I need to take drastic measures.