Sentence examples for draconian application from inspiring English sources

What this draconian application of immigration law accomplishes is lost on me.

It stands to be a minefield and an expulsion would represent the most draconian application of the regulations.

No, Steve Jobs hasn't abandoned Apple's draconian application approval process.

If there wasn't any mitigation at all, I think that would be a fairly draconian application of the World Anti Doping Programme.

In 2012 there were various incidents of the state curbing free speech, including the use of sedition laws to attack civil society activists in Maoist insurgent areas, sedition charges lodged against a cartoonist for a work that mocked corruption in the Indian government and the application of draconian Internet laws.

-- Changing how the Justice Department charges people to reduce the application of draconian mandatory minimum sentencing.

But the answer, it seems, is not a draconian crackdown on all Internet applications, but a more fine-grained monitoring and sorting of what applications can play in corporate networks and under what ground rules.

They impose draconian restrictions on the type of application that you can run, they don't allow applications to run in the background and they even restrict the applications by subject matter or if they compete with their own applications.

"The legal options available to agencies were draconian and did not allow for any flexibility in application".

Hans Sauer, an intellectual property counsel for the Biotechnology Industry Organization called PTO's approach "draconian," claiming the new guidelines are leading patent examiners to reject applications in fields such as pharmaceutical composition, which are outside of the genetics and diagnostics applications discussed in the Myriad case.

"This is the only nonfraud application I have seen of the doctrine, and it's a draconian interpretation of it".