— Jeff Gordinier The Daily Mail: A Craigslist line-chef help-wanted posting for FARMbloomington Restaurant, in Bloomington, Ind., demanded 44 draconian requirements that included never calling in sick and happily working several double shifts in a row without a day off.
"The law is so broad, it gives unbridled power to the authorities to register a case," said Pavan Duggal, a lawyer in the Supreme Court who specializes in technology and Internet laws, and who called Section 66A draconian.
3. Draconian App Store policies that are, frankly, insulting.
Finance minister Brian Lenihan As he tried to balance the exchequer books and pull the country out of recession, Lenihan hit the public with three brutal budgets in 18 months and unveiled a draconian 15bn euro (£12.1 billion) four-year savings plan.
In 1994 Californians voted three-to-two for Proposition 187, a Draconian effort to deny public assistance to illegal immigrants and to deprive their children, entitled to citizenship if born in America, of public schooling.
Those parallels have in fact hit close to the mark at times, for example when the Conservatives sent Canadian special forces to serve as advisers in Iraq, and in the wake of last fall's terrorist attack on Parliament, when they passed Bill C-51, a draconian security law that took up the sorry torch of the Patriot Act.
In the light of the bomb blast at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, in which two people were killed and 110 injured, draconian measures, known as the Olympic security laws, have been pushed through parliament, bringing criticism from civil rights groups.
And she was offended by Prop 187's draconian measures, which included no public elementary or secondary school education for children here illegally and no health care.
The rapper was one of countless Tunisians locked up under what's commonly referred to as Law 52, a draconian drug law that has filled the country's prisons to the point of overcrowding, mostly with poor youths.
The increasingly hardline face of the Republicans will only have been emphasised by a vote in the House on Thursday to cut spending on the food stamps programme, a crucial plank in America's safety net for the poor, by $30bn over 10 years, a draconian step that would see 3.8 million Americans cut from the rolls next year.
46, which would allow that state's Draconian 39-year-old "cap" to keep up with inflation.
