As a result of widespread reliance on the precautionary principle, doomsday scenarios have come to dominate discussion of climate change. 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.

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

Drastic measures were introduced to arrest the slide in the economy.

The invention of TV caused a drastic change in our daily life.

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

If the Arctic Ocean becomes ice free in summer, the melting and the snowfall will probably increase sharply. At that point, the precautionary principle might suggest that we take drastic action to stop burning fossil fuels.

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

It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse. Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.

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.

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

There is no more drastic and sudden gap created between potential and actual mind than a severe head injury.

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

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

I think we're last because and this is going to be drastic to some of you because we are handicapping ourselves.

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.

So in summary, we need a drastic change in the way we think and behave, but we don't need a workers' revolution.

In order to promote sound development for the young people who will lead the nation and contribute to international society in the twenty first century, it is important to appropriately take into account today's social environment and take drastic action to that end as we formulate national youth development policy.

The European Union was alarmed at the drastic rise in the use of drugs and at the incidence of HIV AIDS among drug users.

As the work load of the Trial Chambers decrease, the focus will shift to the Appeal Chamber where a drastic increase in work is anticipated.

Attention must be paid to the effect of the actual wording of the Commentary if the wording is drastic, local courts might ignore the changes.

As the work load of the Trial Chambers decrease, the focus will shift to the Appeal Chamber where a drastic increase in work is anticipated.

By revolution, I mean a drastic and far reaching change in the way we think and behave the way we think and the way we behave.

Campaigners across Europe and the US use the threat of starvation to argue for drastic carbon cuts. For most regions, weather changes will increase agricultural productivity.

After Argentina s unilateral default in 2001, many investors saw more clearly the need to allow explicitly for less drastic alternatives ahead of time, and so incorporated so called collective action clauses into debt contracts. If the borrower runs into trouble, CACs make it possible to restructure debt with the agreement of a substantial majority of creditors (usually around 70 ).

Drastic legal and institutional reforms must be undertaken in order to facilitate the free flow of regional capital and trade by modernizing procedures, laws and arbitration systems.

Since 2014, due to the sanctions imposed by the West on Russia and drastic fluctuations in the international oil price, the Russian economy has been under great downward pressure.

Considering that the drastic control measure for carbon tetrachloride that has been referred to puts at risk the analytical and laboratory uses required in Parties operating under Article 5,

We need a drastic change in the way we think and behave to transform Bulgaria for the better, for ourselves, for our friends, for our family and for our future.

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.

There are no convincing arguments to explain the drastic and regrettable changes to the text of this year's resolution, whose final version continues to have clear deficiencies, including the following.

To put it starkly, such drastic carbon cuts are likely to do a lot more damage than climate change to our quality of life (especially for those in the developing world).

High oil prices leave no margin, and countries have to resign themselves to a drastic and substantial decline in their economies, and a real deterioration in the quality of life they have achieved.

In view of the recent drastic increase in the frequency and intensity of severe natural calamities and the ever higher degree of vulnerability of the developing countries, the international community should take prompt and decisive measures.

While paragraph 6 of the OECD Commentary widens the scope of permanent establishment, care must be taken not to include measures so drastic that they could easily result in the amendments being rejected by the domestic courts.

These, together with the external shocks triggered by the volatility of speculative capital flows, drastic terms of trade adjustments and even inflows of remittances, make the potential benefits of structural adjustment and stabilization policies difficult to attain.

These five pillars involve drastic choices, but they will probably require less money from Europe s taxpayers, not more. They could make a real contribution to cleaner, more productive, and efficient farming and land use, while addressing social needs.

Furthermore, the Turkish military can increase the pressure on Iraqi Kurds with far less drastic measures. It can close the two countries principal border crossing, an important route for food, fuel, and other goods headed for Iraqi Kurds.

There is strong evidence that impositions from above (such as imposing drastic solutions on the population by limiting the water supply at intervals of time) are not as effective as changing the habits of citizens through participatory mechanisms.

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.

Working in close cooperation with the Security Council, such a council could help to avert regional crises, especially internal crises, and also serve as an early warning mechanism for crisis situations related to drastic and massive human rights violations.

President Barack Obama s administration has maintained an intensely inward looking focus, reinforced by a public wary of foreign engagements. Nothing short of a drastic change in the conflict s nature that threatened America s core interests would lead to direct US involvement.

At the same time, with boatloads of migrants arriving from Tunisia, some rather drastic measures have been adopted. A recent dispute between Italy (the main port of arrival) and France (the principal final destination) ended with the French reintroducing border controls.

In the light of the drastic changes in the travel industry in recent years and the requirements for increased economy of resources and efficiency, some organizations of the United Nations system have adapted their travel policies and have streamlined travel procedures.