Sentence examples for become draconian from inspiring English sources

Happily for this business model, British and American censorship had become draconian.

Without substantial new federal help, state cuts that are now merely drastic will become draconian, and hundreds of thousands of additional jobs will be lost.

Hospital administrators, insurers and doctors are counting on federal subsidies and coverage expansion that would result in a surge of patients with insurance to offset cuts in government programs that many fear could soon become draconian.

"The pace of bank credit tightening has become draconian in scope and now stands at the recessionary levels last seen in 1991 and 2002," credit analyst Christopher Garman said in a report.

Censorship has become less draconian since Mao's time and publishing has become more commercial.

Yet it is incontestable that Government policy has become more draconian here.

Then things settled down because "regulation had become pretty draconian" and laws were actually enforced.

"And if you start saying you're going to protect certain popular programs," he said, "then the cuts in everything else become really draconian".

(Restrictions on the activities of journalists had become so draconian by then that simply going to the barber without a minder looked suspicious).

"The Department of Homeland Security's enforcement measures have become increasingly draconian and are leading to severe consequences, including death, for many," Ms. Dutt said in an e-mail message last week.

The result is that Venezuela imports much of the food and consumer goods it used to produce, though not enough to meet demand.Under Mr Maduro the controls have become more draconian.