(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.
Vehement
Definition:
(a.) Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.
(a.) Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(2) The collectively bargained rights of all players must be vehemently preserved and we take that obligation seriously,” the statement said.
(3) When Scholes decided his time as a player was at an end last season not many disagreed vehemently.
(4) Yet some members of the church who profess desire to adhere most strictly to the teachings of Christ are the most vehement objectors to behavior that most resembles what his might have been.
(5) A shame such a landmark achievement was soured by Allam refusing to talk to the local council over a potential stadium expansion and trying to change the club’s name to Hull Tigers, which many fans vehemently oppose.
(6) Saudis and their Sunni Arab allies view Houthi fighters – who belong to the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam – as Iranian proxies and have accused Tehran of militarily backing them, a charge Iran vehemently denies.
(7) Vanna Mendaleni is a middle aged Greek woman who until now has not had vehement feelings about the crisis that has engulfed her country.
(8) Hamas vehemently denies the legitimacy of Israel but its leaders have stated repeatedly that if Fatah negotiates with Israel a two-state peace deal based on the 1967 borders, and if this outcome is approved in a national referendum, it would respect it as the choice of the Palestinian people.
(9) At the time Putin vehemently denied the men were Russian soldiers,but he later admitted they were.
(10) Well, it would be taken more seriously if this newspaper had not been so vehemently committed itself to getting rid of Tony Blair and to putting Gordon Brown in his place.
(11) Kadyrov has vehemently denied any involvement with the killings, issuing a statement this month saying that "ideologists of terrorism" had unleashed "a massive information war against the Chechen Republic and its leadership".
(12) Cost-benefit analysis--applying economic reasoning to increasingly complex health policy decisions--continues to be a source of vehement disagreement among its practitioners.
(13) How tolerant an approach will he take to parliamentary colleagues who vehemently disagree with him?
(14) In a statement, a spokesperson said that the Obama emphasised that the US “remains steadfast in [its] commitment to the security of Israel .” Netanyahu told Obama that Israel “vehemently opposes” the framework deal .
(15) Modi was accused of condoning the violence and even encouraging it – allegations he has vehemently denied.
(16) The prospect of Somali pirates being brought to trial here, where they would undoubtedly apply for asylum, is one of the reasons ministers have vehemently refused to accept any cases.
(17) Lugovoi, a former KGB and FSB officer, vehemently denies involvement and has suggested he may have been set up with the polonium by British security services or others.
(18) The BBC vehemently denies suggestions that anyone in the corporation's hierarchy wanted the allegations made public.
(19) On domestic policy, Fiorina has long occupied a niche in the Republican field as perhaps the most vehement critic of the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, a role for which there is considerable competition.
(20) Saudi Arabia had been vehemently opposed to Aoun’s nomination, fearing he will consolidate Iran’s influence on the brittle state, which has remained vulnerable state since the end of its destructive civil war 25 years ago.