But the regime's draconian demands for overnight results were counterproductive.
Last week, the White House released its latest in a long line of draconian demands for how to deal with the fate of Dreamers.
To this conceit, you can add the draconian demands of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which offers millions of dollars in help for poor urban schools only if city officials adhere to the same unyielding metrics.
** When Barbara returns, with Draconian demands — half a million dollars, three hundred thousand of it payable within twenty-four hourSavagevactsacts on his "moment of inspiration," killing her and tossing her into the fast-flowing Hudson.
Although rumor had it that Apple was about to stop by Verizon before it hit AT&T, in reality AT&T was the only carrier amenable enough to Apple's seemingly draconian demands: control over distribution, supply, and support, control over the app and music store, and absolute control over release dates.
"They have to be addressed at industry level because no doubt the countries — US, Europe — I would think will make some fairly stringent, draconian demands on the way aviation works with security," he said at the Dubai Airshow.
But instead of doing that, the European powers have made eleventh-hour, draconian demands: slash pensions, privatize even more core state functions, and attack unions and workers' collective bargaining rights.
Assuming office in the middle of the crisis, in 2009, Papandreou's tenure has been a precarious balancing act of trying to satisfy the draconian demands of the EU while dealing with the increasing unrest and economic misery of his people.
The loan officers know their clients and have a pretty good idea who is trustworthy, but senior management is imposing draconian requirements that demand, in effect, that small business borrowers prove they don't need the money.
An absurdly draconian set of demands made upon media organisations should disqualify the Prince from the off.
