Sentence examples for a draconian system from inspiring English sources
They may seem dandy now, but players chafed under a draconian system in which teams kept players as long as they wanted them, then discarded them at will.
Further acts of parliament prevented the acquisition of land by "natives" and limited movement by a draconian system of internal passports, preceding apartheid legislation by 25 years.
In the chain gang film, Southern prisoners were subjected to a draconian system of discipline in the blazing outdoors where they were treated terribly by their ruthless captors.
Shutting the sick and healthy up together in their homes and waiting for nature to take its course was unjustifiably cruel, he wrote, and a move away from this draconian system was required.
For the first time, the government seems to be treating everyone on benefits as "undeserving" – unless and until they can convince a draconian assessment system otherwise.
We should stand up and resist the Taliban-like forces in the American mosques that mandate a draconian Muslim system that bars women from work, prohibits television, music and dancing and punishes men who trim their beards.
I find it hard to believe that as lively and intellectually curious a girl as Cressida wouldn't think the draconian system of racial separation strange (not to say highly discomfiting) and worthy of comment.
A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress earlier this year offered only modest reforms to the draconian system of federal sentencing for drug offenses, including the mandatory minimums that have been used to throw even lower-level dealers in prison for decades.
But the team's previous coach and previous players had committed a number of offenses revealed after the fact that are considered sins under the N.C.A.A.'s draconian system of regulations.
Also Monday, state media said China would start reforming its draconian system of re-education through labor, as Andrew Jacobs reports from Beijing.
In 1973, Washington responded to the oil embargo by taking its already draconian system of price limits and other government controls on oil and gasoline and expanding it.
