1.   Drastic changes are needed if environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.

2.   Drastic changes of policy would have been very difficult, as attempts to cut Federal spending and to balance the budget revealed.

3.   Drastic changes, up or down, hamper longer-term development and can mean re-drafting the national budget at short notice.

4.   The present idiotic trends can not go on for ever, and there could soon be drastic changes.

5.   There are going to have to be some drastic changes.

6.   The drastic change in its relations with the Soviet Union motivated Vietnam to improve relations with China and with the USA.

7.   It is possible also to study the effects of drastic changes in existing fertility and mortality rates.

8.   The result of this was that the side underwent drastic changes for the next game, with none of the Youth Cup winning side included.

9.   Players, coaches and the media agree that drastic changes are needed.

10.   Consequently, it would be foolish to make drastic changes in energy policy until it is clear that there is danger.