That may be not as draconian as it sounds.
"Rent control is not as draconian as some would have you believe," he concludes.
The cuts will probably not be as draconian as we thought".
Commander Kuebler responded that he "abides by military commission secrecy rules, as draconian as they are".
Mr. Chiasson's lawyers said that adhering to the guidelines "would be as draconian as it would be unwarranted".
Even some of the new regulations had turned out to be not as draconian as many bankers once believed.
But the effect on private art schools has been nowhere near as draconian as the article suggests.
(This penalty is not as draconian as it might seem, because it is limited to the amount the company would pay if it offered no insurance at all).
That leaves the new financial sanctions, and I'd be willing to wager that they won't be as draconian as they might appear, either.
Indeed, Mr Becker's crime calculus might lead to the conclusion that fines should be as draconian as possible seizing all a wrongdoer's assets, for example.
If the overall legislation wasn't as draconian as many critics of Wall Street had hoped for, it did force the banks to change the way they did business.
