The crisis of the 1990s led to the drastic reduction of the state support for science and a brain drain migration from Russia.

We also believe that a drastic reduction in its agenda and focusing it on the most important problems of the day are the most appropriate way to achieve that objective.

First, drastic financial deleveraging is unavoidable.

The term energy security in Europe has been hijacked to empower suppliers and weaken importers, implying a drastic reduction in competition, rising political vulnerability, and the erosion of the rule of law.

Only drastic administrative intervention saved the county from utter destruction.

(c) Drastic wording and far reaching statements should be avoided

Of course, all of this had drastic implications for the economy.

In the laboratory what we want to do is much the same, but with on the order of tens of different types of molecules so a drastic reduction in complexity, but still trying to produce something that looks lifelike.

It is easy to imagine disasters so severe that drastic action to prevent them would be reasonable, and advocates of drastic action can easily scare the public with imagined disasters.

Indeed, a drastic shift in policy is essential to avoid economic collapse.

PARIS The world is witnessing a drastic decline of its natural capital.

But drastic attempts at fiscal consolidation immediately evoke memories of the Great Depression.

In essence, the proposal argues for a drastic transformation of the existing CERF.

Various diseases thrive in this environment, the most drastic of which is called trachoma.

The threat of more malaria has been used to argue for drastic carbon cuts.

These are the most drastic temporary dismissals to take place in Finland since 2000.

In many cases this requires drastic measures, particularly insofar as our physical security is concerned.

Furthermore, the Turkish military can increase the pressure on Iraqi Kurds with far less drastic measures.

Nor have the more drastic calls for the suspension of some of our activities gone unheard.

Vigorous efforts are needed on the Palestinian side to bring about drastic improvement in security measures.

Campaigners across Europe and the US use the threat of starvation to argue for drastic carbon cuts.

And Romney s drastic budget cutbacks, targeted at the poor and middle class, would further impede social mobility.

The United States is now taking drastic steps against China, and is making provisions for a trade war.

Even as the risk of recession looms, the country has been forced to implement a drastic austerity program.

It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse.

At that point, the precautionary principle might suggest that we take drastic action to stop burning fossil fuels.

In his chapter, Tol shows why grand promises of drastic, immediate carbon cuts are such a flawed strategy.

COPENHAGEN A sense of panic is setting in among many campaigners for drastic cuts in global carbon emissions.

At the same time, with boatloads of migrants arriving from Tunisia, some rather drastic measures have been adopted.

Roosevelt initially supported this plan, and managed to convince Churchill to support it in a less drastic form.

Agricultural exporters have proposed a front loading approach whereby cuts would be more drastic in the first years.

The concrete action that they had in mind was getting governments to mandate drastic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.

So now they feel that the only way they can get the world s attention is to do something drastic.

Now Africa has reached the point that, without a drastic increase in private education, its economic transformation could stall.

Moreover, Bush s proposals won t fix social security unless they are accompanied by drastic benefit cuts. For how could they?

Rather, it reflects anger and frustration over my insistence on pointing out that drastic carbon cuts make no sense.

The seventeenth century French philosopher René Descartes solved it by the drastic expedient of denying that animals can suffer.

Globalization has caused drastic shifts in the job market, and technological innovation has changed the scope of the market.

Without a drastic change in Israeli politics and society, however, Obama will continue to play it safe, minimizing his vulnerabilities.

Despite the drastic conditions, citizen media users were able to report on the impact of the cyclone in their region.

The EAP can be subdivided into rural and urban areas, and there are drastic differences to the benefit of men.

COPENHAGEN Advocates of drastic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions now speak a lot less than they once did about climate change.

But they don t speak as good Icelandic as I do, says Gnarr. It s a drastic change in a very short time.

The Russian Federation has undergone a drastic reform process since its transition from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy.

Sugar beet and cane growers worldwide are struggling to cope with inflation of production costs and drastic decreases in real revenues.