As with humans, we can not make drastic alterations in diet and exercise, as this can be detrimental to health and lead us to «crash and burn» with yo - yo dieting. (dogingtonpost.com)
Men will take it as a mark of bad character rather than enlightenment if, after the most drastic alteration in personality, a man refuses responsibility for all earlier commitments. (religion-online.org)
Partly before Napoleon came to power and partly under his rule drastic alterations were wrought in the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical structure in Germany. (religion-online.org)