As in Russia under Vladimir V. Putin, Mr. Nazarbayev has blended deft economic policies that have drastically raised living standards with soft authoritarian methods like police repression of dissidents.
President Barack Obama urged Senate Republicans on Tuesday to "stop playing special interest politics" and allow a vote on legislation that would drastically raise the liability for oil companies responsible for economically damaging spills.
Given the abundant research clearly showing that any distraction while driving drastically raises the risk of an accident, it baffles me that the agency hasn't taken strong action against the increasing number of things that take a driver's attention away from the road.
Radiation plays a very important role in the stability of dust cloud flame, and increasing the amount of radiation drastically raises the possibility of instability and explosion in a dust cloud mixture.
Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, addressing the Senate on Wednesday, said the recent bombing had meant to be fatal and "drastically raises the danger which, in the last year and a half, had showed itself as small-scale terrorism".
Additionally, eye injury or surgery drastically raises the oxygen level of the lens, likely making photo-oxidative damage a greater threat to lens proteins.
So let's back up for a moment and stipulate that everything the city claims is true: That without this meter deal we would have had to lay off 1,800 police officers or cut the Fire Department's budget by a third or cut this or cut that or drastically raise taxes on city residents.
Mr. Waxman faces vocal skepticism from most Republicans on his committee, several of whom complained at Wednesday's hearing that the bill would drastically raise energy costs and lead to large job losses.
And I knew just looking at that, that that was way, way, way low: A few years before I'd purchased and renovated a movie theater in town, the Jean Cocteau, and I saw how much that cost and how the estimates always seemed to be low; it always cost more... so I warned them about that and we drastically raised the estimates to a much more realistic level.
