Finally, given the nature of the priesthood, laicization is an extreme remedy.

The extreme remedy proposed by the government is particularly inappropriate given the unsettled legal standards applicable to the government's claims.

Thus, circumcision can seem like a rather extreme remedy purely for the avoidance of smegma.

But while the statute might allow that extreme remedy, it does not require it.

Two states, Illinois and Ohio, declined to go along with the others, saying a breakup was too extreme a remedy.

Blood serum as an extreme remedy for contagious or virulent disease.

Very clever, of course, but what did he mean by extreme remedies?

The judge said this "extreme remedy" was warranted only when "property would be lost, materially injured or destroyed."

"So we are using an extreme remedy: we give a get in such a way that it is not a get but a dissolution."

Instead of simply reorganizing the bureaucracy, Congress needs to consider more imaginative - and less extreme - remedies for these chronic problems.