Sentence examples for draconian decisions from inspiring English sources

"The savage economies that the PSNI has to make in a relatively short span of time meant drastic and draconian decisions had to be made.

The family court is charged with making the most draconian decision a court can make: whether a child should be removed from their parents' care.

No one gains from his draconian decision to tack on those 15 extra months to Kerik's sentence.

Without the associated rise in the cap, general managers would now be making far more draconian personnel decisions.

He added: "It is not easy to see how, when the UKBA can't point to any [current] student who is in breach of immigration control requirements, how - with a decision that affects huge numbers of innocent students - the threat to immigration control has justified so draconian a decision as revocation or indeed suspension".

In discarding the false imprisonment counts, Mosby and her colleagues probably were also mindful of one of the more draconian law-and-order decisions handed down by the Supreme Court under the leadership of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

"Only a draconian response to unconstitutional court decisions remains.

"It's draconian," he said of the decision, "and the first of its kind, I think, that half of a group of disorders are eliminated by committee".

Hayden, who made a similar order in relation to a 16-year-old boy earlier this week, said that it was a draconian step, as was the decision to remove a passport.

I should also make clear that given the commitment to the euro, Ireland had to engage in some kind of austerity program, although it wouldn't have been as draconian if not for the decision to socialize all the of the banks' debt.

But BAA chief executive Colin Matthews called the decision "an unreasonably draconian demand".