(1) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
(2) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
(3) "The Afghan people dared rockets and bombs, but they came out and voted and that's great."
(4) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
(5) "I am looking forward to … producing ambitious, daring and engaging content both in the UK and internationally, as well as accessing their extensive library of film content."
(6) The "respect the game" police are back, (do they ever go away) and after Adrian Gonzalez, who dared to pump his fists following a fourth inning double that brought home LA's first run of the game.
(7) If they didn't think they could get away with it, they wouldn't dare do it."
(8) Besides, he consoled himself with the thought that the ghosts probably wouldn’t dare to hurt Pippi.
(9) Elsewhere, Lady Edith dares spend the night with her boyfriend, on the eve of his supposed departure to Germany, where he plans to become a citizen in order to divorce his wife on the grounds that she’s a lunatic, so that he may marry Edith.
(10) They will occasionally take selfies, if they’re feeling especially daring or if Joe Biden is in the vicinity .
(11) The Malaysian prime minister has announced he is scrapping the country's draconian security laws and relaxing media controls, in what he billed as a daringly bold package of reforms.
(12) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
(13) Cycling is perceived to be for the brave and adventurous, those who dare.
(14) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
(15) For the third time, the Greeks have learned that weakness is strength because Europe dares not pull the trigger.
(16) Addressing the crowd, communist party leader Aleka Papariga warned that whatever government emerged in the coming days would face the wrath of the people if it dared to pass more belt-tightening measures.
(17) The plan that dared not speak its name before the last election is now plain for all to see: run it down, break it up, sell it off,” he said.
(18) It is what got my father and my brother kidnapped by the Taliban – they were Hazara men who dared to dream of a better life by pursuing education, and wished the same for their children.
(19) The reality was that it was a very difficult time, with my competitors very upset that I had dared to enter the market at all.
(20) A plane carrying the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana, had been shot down and I dared not imagine the consequences.
Drastic
Definition:
(a.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
(n.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the first three weeks of adaptation drastic changes in the parameter were seen.
(2) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
(3) Survival rates depend on age: 5 years survival rate of patients up to 65 years was 8,1% (59 of 729) and fell drastically in patients of 65+ years (28 of 1109 = 2,5%).
(4) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(5) Optic chiasm transection drastically diminished this ability, callosal section had little effect and combined lesions of these two structures abolished stereoperception.
(6) The observed drastic interstrain differences in dopamine receptor sensitivity demonstrate the essential role of genotype in the effects of dopaminergic drugs.
(7) Treatment of Xenopus laevis membranes with the 2',3'-dialdehyde of GTP (dial GTP) drastically inhibits their adenylyl cyclase activity.
(8) Ivermectin treatment of all cattle on a badly infected farm failed to interrupt the transmission of P. bovicola, even though ovipositional blood spots were drastically reduced in numbers for an entire summer season following treatment.
(9) The number of DAB positive organelles per surface area decreased steadily with culture age, and significantly on day 2 (p less than 0.01) to become drastically low on day 5 and negligible on day 7.
(10) However, treatment of intact worms drastically affected the integrity of the membrane.
(11) Treatment with glucocorticosteroids has drastically improved the prognosis.
(12) Only a drastic osmotic shock in distillated water as a mean to disrupt mitochondrial membrane was found to strongly increase the actual rate of the rotenone-sensitive activity.
(13) Such a drastic measure in an impossibly short timeframe would deprive generations of refugees of any choices for their future,” said Charles Gaudry, MSF’s head of mission in Kenya.
(14) In the deforming osteo-arthrosis (150 observations) in the synovial sheath there were usually noted drastic sclerosis and atrophy of organ-specific structures, impairmement of the production of the synovial fluid, and dystrophic falling into fibers of the articular cartilage with intensive proliferation of the cartilage cells.
(15) This was primarily due to the drastic decrease with age in excretion of bis-digitoxoside.
(16) The velocity of darkness adaptation was drastically changed in patients with chronic alcoholism but it was also reversible.
(17) The combined effects lead to a drastic antimutagenic effect, the molecular mechanism of which is given by these changes in mutagen-metabolizing enzymes.
(18) Decreasing the water concentration in the reaction medium by adding methanol at 0 degrees C drastically reduces the rate of racemization without affecting the rate of transamination.
(19) The factor production during a certain period of the development of lines is drastically increased by radiation.
(20) Excretion of zinc and especially of silicon through the kidneys and intestine drastically grew on the day of the contest.