Sentence examples for draconian attack from inspiring English sources

– the measure is not a particularly draconian attack on the City.

Angela Eagle, the newly appointed shadow business secretary, has accused the government of mounting a draconian attack on trade unions despite evidence that strike action has fallen by 90% over the past two decades.

The maneuver is a familiar one in Albany, intended to persuade the Legislature to view potential cuts as draconian attacks on basic services.

He has also claimed he can cure HIV and AIDS with natural herb remedies, and has said that he allowed "too much expression" before introducing draconian attacks on the freedom of the press in 2005.

The cut the council is facing has been used to justify draconian attacks on the arts and libraries yet I am still waiting for basic answers to questions on their budget".

Why such a draconian approach?

The attacks continued right up to Tuesday afternoon, when the NRA put out a release warning Colorado residents that "Governor Hickenlooper is likely to sign a series of draconian bills that attack on [sic] your Second Amendment rights".

It was attempted using a doomed cap-and-tax plan, followed by draconian EPA regulatory attacks on fossil energy under cover of its Clean Air Act.

Consider: Shortly after Mr. Obama presented this idea to Republicans, more than a half-dozen of them began trashing it as too "draconian" and a "shocking attack on seniors".

Tim ShEastn-JoneSussexhton, EAngelassEaglegela Eagle is absolutely correct that the trade union bill is a "draconian and a partisan attack" on unions (Report, 15 September).

The Conservative government's reforms to trade union law are designed to make it harder for strikes to be held and have been attacked as "draconian" by workers, union officials and opposition politicians.