Sentence examples for a very draconian from inspiring English sources

Claims for loss of future financial support in Malaysia were limited by "a very draconian formula" compared with Australia's.

Amnesty International UK described the deaths as "summary killings from the sky (that) crossed a line", while the former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, was also critical and described the killing as a "very draconian thing to do".

Judge Winter, the chairman of the Judicial Conference's executive committee, said the proposal appeared to call for "explicit content regulation," which would "very much alter the institutional role of the Federal Judicial Center" and impose "a very draconian ban in one of the most sensitive areas of our public life, the marketplace of ideas".

After the votes, Rebecca Killion of Bowie, Md., a patient representative on the advisory panel, said, "My feeling here is that we're being asked to take a very draconian action based on studies that are very inadequate for us to make that kind of decision".

With the government maintaining that the Irish banking sector nearly collapsed during the past two weeks and the announcement of what is expected to be a very draconian 2009 government budget next week, Irish economic policymakers are facing their most significant challenge in decades.

"Ethiopia is a good example where the US provides quite a bit of security assistance but at the same time Ethiopia has a very draconian anti-terrorism law that has never been used to charge anybody who's committed a terrorist offence.

It's all very draconian but it's also very real.

The terms for setting up a new bank should be very draconian.

Although a 2006 study suggested that the slump in air travel after 9/11 delayed that year's flu season by several weeks—and that the effect could be much greater if many more planes were grounded several epidemiological models have suggested that unless a travel ban is "very, very draconian," it will have very little impact, says Fukuda.

Her very draconian posture provoked a punk radicalism in the popular culture that changed a generation.

"It was very draconian," says Hahn. "It was a very archaic structure and they are asking to be disrupted".