Sentence examples for draconian labour from inspiring English sources

Forced labour, head taxes, compulsory production of cash crops, and draconian labour contracts forced Africans to build infrastructure and to participate in the colonial economy.

Britain already has the most draconian labour laws in Europe – far worse than we bequeathed to the Germans after the second world war, he noted – and should hang its head in shame.

Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, said the ruling was "a sharp reminder" that the "draconian bill" – which Labour has abstained on so far – needed amending to ensure that surveillance powers should not be lightly handed over to the security services without greater accountability.

Successive home secretaries strove to outdo one another in populist punitive measures, with Howard followed by Labour's draconian Jack Straw, David Blunkett and John Reid.

In opposition, Mr Cameron was keen to make common cause with the Liberal Democrats against the draconian turn of later New Labour.

King said at the time there was a need for severe austerity measures to prevent a Greek-style sovereign debt crisis in Britain, in apparent contrast to Labour's less draconian plans.

I'm prompted to ask by the discovery that the most illiberal and oppressive instrument proposed by any recent government – injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance in the antisocial behaviour bill – has been attacked by Labour not because it is draconian but because it is not draconian enough.

I'm prompted to ask by the discovery that the most illiberal and oppressive instrument proposed by any recent government – injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance in the antisocial behaviour bill – has been attacked by Labour not because it is draconian but because it is not draconian enough.

Roy Jenkins, that most liberal of Labour home secretaries, enacted "draconian" measures after the IRA's 1974 Birmingham pub bombings killed 21 people.

Essentially what Osborne is planning to do is dream up a welfare cap so draconian that it is unacceptable to Labour, force Ed Miliband to vote against it late next year, and then fight an election on it.

After weeks of inconvenient public protest for labour rights and against draconian cuts to public services and the people who provide them, the city of Madison just restricted speech in the people's Capitol building to a small "free speech zone" – for the first time in Wisconsin history.