China's draconian efforts to filter the Internet — characterized by Wired magazine in a 1997 article as the "Great Firewall of China" — harken back to the strict censorship of the airways by Communist governments during the Cold War.
Britain redoubled its already draconian efforts to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease after a report projected that the number of affected sites, instead of tailing off, would soon rise by 70 each day, and would top 4,000 by June.
This summer alone, The U.S. Supreme Court decided to gut section four of the Voting Rights Act, even in the wake of draconian efforts across several states to suppress the votes of people of color, seniors and young people.
In 1994 Californians voted three-to-two for Proposition 187, a Draconian effort to deny public assistance to illegal immigrants and to deprive their children, entitled to citizenship if born in America, of public schooling.
While the climate change proposal is of great importance, the passion for it pales to that of immigration reform by the Democratic base and now of a growing number of independents shocked by Arizona's latest draconian effort.
WILL he, won't he? Can he or can't he? President Abdurrahman Wahid kept Indonesia on tenterhooks this week about whether he would order a state of emergency, his draconian answer to efforts to unseat him.
— Jeff Gordinier The New York Times: New York City's proposed limits on soft drinks may seem draconian, but its gentler efforts to improve residents' eating habits have largely bombed.
If the GOP continues to push its repeal-and-replace efforts, its draconian budget and its heartless tax reform bill, they can expect an even more embarrassing defeat next November.
In 2016, progressive prosecutors began to be swept into office in Illinois, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Colorado and other states, and they pledged to roll back draconian policies in an effort to end mass incarceration.
We see this playing out now in many communities: funding challenges, the denigration of teachers, privatization efforts, voucher initiatives, draconian accountability measures, etc.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama announced Monday that he has granted dozens of federal inmates their freedom, as part of an effort to counteract draconian penalties handed out to nonviolent drug offenders in the past.
