Sentence examples for So draconian from inspiring English sources

So draconian were its terms that it effectively guaranteed Britain would refuse to be pacified.

So draconian are his cuts in these programs that he achieves balance in his budget without touching Social Security or cutting materially more from Medicare over the next 10 years than Mr. Obama would.

So draconian was this provision that even the House of Lords, not generally known as a hotbed of liberalism, had to declare that the provision breached the right to a fair trial.

So draconian has been the regime of spending cuts enforced over the past four years, with the same again to come, that on some estimates the UK will by 2017 have the lowest share of public spending among leading capitalist economies, including the US.

"The mandatory minimums are so draconian," he said.

I just want to go about my business and the law just seems so draconian".

"Hillary's approach is so absolutist, draconian and intolerant, it means a replay of 1993".

The agencies balked, saying they could do so only with draconian service reductions.

That slowdown will lead to higher problem loans than we have had, but the numbers will not be draconian, so profitability will continue.

A new organised-crime intelligence unit, in which 17 of the 30 officers are British, is cited as one example of the UN's determination to get tougher; so too are draconian anti-terrorism laws now being drafted.

A reader, Mike, sent in a tale of woe so odd and draconian that I'm not even sure what to think of it.