Draconian in a sentence

All because of a lethal combination of draconian minimum income rules and previous poor legal representation.

Also, while we like our neighbors, there is a fairly draconian HOA, which we’ve already irritated by planting the wrong kinds of trees in our yard, so I don’t think they would react positively to a nice but … eccentric camper in our driveway.

Among the parts of the economy hurt by the strikes include pubs and restaurants, which had already been crippled by draconian and damaging restrictions imposed during the Covid pandemic.

Byzantine rules and draconian penalties kill collaboration in a world without perfect knowledge.

Civil liberty campaigners and protest groups last night said they fear the government’s overly draconian approach.

Drastic, deep, draconian cuts to the Department of Interior, to the National Park Service, to the Forest Service,” Neguse said.

Historian Ramachandra Guha said the raids were “brutal, vicious and draconian”.

Hong Kong has been facing the worst brain drain problem in the medical field ever since China imposed the draconian National Security Law in the city in June 2020.

I despise draconian sort of ways of management.

Increasing the minimum Third-Party motor insurance to 300 percent is not only unreasonable it is draconian.

Individuals are arrested under the draconian laws.

Max Adams, part of the council’s highways team, said the authority would not be considering anything as “Draconian” as changing the threshold at which new orders can be earned – such as raising the required number of accidents.

Mr. Adams has responded with cuts to city services that his critics describe as draconian.

Ologbondiyan argued that the PDP has to reject the fees which he called obnoxious and draconian.

Originally this clean chit business was started by President Farooq Leghari after he dismissed the government of his own party using the draconian Zia Amendment of Article 58(2-b).

Planned Parenthood of Tennessee, for example, is another organization the Lee administration is from, despite the state already having one of the most draconian in the country.

The attempt to import this draconian practice into the state to be used against Palestinian citizens, however, represents an important step in what the legal organization Adalah calls the “enemy aliens” doctrine.

The judge said such a decision would be “draconian,” given the “catastrophically environmentally damaging oil pollution in the niger delta”.

The speaker said the Republican plan does not amount to “draconian limits” and the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs would be exempted from the cuts.

This brutal military force resorted to draconian measures such as torture and murder to quash the rebellion.