(a.) Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(2) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(3) An earlier debt sustainability analysis was leaked in the days leading up to the Greek referendum and helped harden opposition to the (less draconian) terms then on offer.
(4) In its place, the regulator will impose a more draconian regime of checks that will include an assessment of banks' business models.
(5) New legislation that imposes draconian fines on participants in unsanctioned demonstrations was rushed through the Duma this month and signed into law by Putin on Friday.
(6) Mandelson, who today unveiled plans to introduce measures including suspending the internet connections of illegal downloaders , argued that while less draconian than the French plan, the UK's approach would be tough enough to tackle online piracy.
(7) The chancellor was less draconian on child benefit, science and infrastructure spending than feared.
(8) 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.
(9) It is impossible to see how a regulator operating under rules imposed by politicians, and enforced by draconian and discriminatory provisions for damages and costs in civil cases, could be said to be either voluntary or independent."
(10) "This draconian law would have been a massive, unnecessary extension of the state's power," he said.
(11) One of its board members is retired Major General Andrew James “Jim” Molan, co-architect of Tony Abbott’s “Operation Sovereign Borders,” the draconian program relying on the remote island detention centres condemned as cruel and inhumane by multiple respected human rights organisations.
(12) The ruling socialists have been criticised by trade unions and workers for already passing draconian austerity measures aimed at saving €4.8bn by the end of the year.
(13) The island city-state has draconian laws about many things , from pornography to tipping.
(14) Latin America remains a bastion of draconian anti-abortion legislation, where the termination of a pregnancy is almost universally considered a criminal act.
(15) Many colonial laws, including draconian statutes against " sedition " and "offending religious sensibilities" remained on the books.
(16) It is essential we reject the most draconian proposals on the table and support other countries who are seeking to implement flexible and positive language,” she said.
(17) But there are plenty of pieces of anti-Cuban legislation and trade embargoes still in force, including the sweeping and draconian 1996 Helms-Burton act , which penalises foreign companies trading with Cuba.
(18) But he also made clear he had heeded the industry's warnings that banks could move overseas if tax changes were too draconian.
(19) Approved memories can be purchased in the gift shop.” But it transpires that the draconian rule, which was first introduced for the blockbusting David Bowie exhibition in 2013, has nothing to do with protecting intellectual property.
(20) But the draconian proposals did not find much favour with either the drinks industry or the Department of Health , which immediately said that it did not support the introduction of graphic health warnings on bottles and tins.
Draconic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last night's eventual defeat of a draconically restrictive abortion law in Texas was another percentage degree of rotation in that "bending toward justice" curve.