(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.
Strict
Definition:
(a.) Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
(a.) Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
(a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
(a.) Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
(a.) Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
(a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(2) Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was diagnosed by strict histologic criteria in 103 patients.
(3) Neurospora crassa mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid shows strict uniparental inheritance in sexual crosses, with a notable absence of mixtures and recombinant types that appear frequently in heteroplasmons.
(4) Primary vaccination should be carried out as early as possible, while strictly observing the contraindications.
(5) Though no strict relationship could be observed between titers in the IH test and the time it took mice to die from the intravenous inoculation of mice (IIM test), results of the supernatants examined by both methods demonstrated that the IH test was more sensitive than the IIM one.
(6) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(7) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
(8) They continuously produced heteropolymeric G6PD and showed strictly additive patterns of silver staining of both parental sets of nucleolar organizing chromosomes.
(9) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(10) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
(11) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(12) The occurrence of paresis or paralysis in ischemic processes strictly situated in the thalamus, however, is discussed: the deficit may be limited to parts of limbs; most often, it is not associated with pyramidal symptomatology; recovery is observed in the hand before the inferior limb.
(13) Active sites for thiosulphate are probably strictly connected with cell membranes.
(14) Indications for operation must be strict, for unless there are specific signs and symptoms of appendiceal disease, appendectomy will often be of no benefit.
(15) The uptake of acetyl-L-carnitine was not strictly substrate-specific; gamma-butyrobetaine, L-carnitine, L-DABA, and GABA were potent inhibitors, hypotaurine and L-glutamate were moderate inhibitors, and glycine and beta-alanine were only weakly inhibitory.
(16) The absence of strict restrictions for the feeding on unusual species of hosts has caused the domination of polyphagy and oligophagy over monophagy among ixodid ticks.
(17) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(18) The low amount of 100000-dalton protein and lack of 4-nm surface particles in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles obtained from fetal and newborn rabbits are strictly correlated with the low activity of Ca2+-dependent ATPase and the ability to take up Ca2+.
(19) Sensitizing drugs must be strictly avoided to prevent such recurrences: their presence in drug mixtures must be guarded against.
(20) The lack of a strict correlation between the changes in tubulin composition and changes in organization of microtubular structures indicates that accumulation of beta 2-tubulin and disappearance of alpha 3-tubulin isotypes are not sufficient to bring about reorganization of microtubules during development.