Sentence examples for draconian model from inspiring English sources

We're at the end of the tough-on-crime cycle now, and there's hope that a kinder and smarter approach to imprisonment will replace replace the draconian model.

He has called Arizona's draconian immigration law a "model" for the country.

The draconian Rockefeller drug laws, for example, the model for much of our current drug policies, were promoted and supported by an African-American leadership trying to save black lives.

Because smoking was seen to be 'personal', many policy makers considered legislation to be an overly draconian means of decreasing smoking role-modelling to children in parks and playgrounds.

The GOP, using the draconian actions of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at its model, attempt to co-opt and decertify labor unions and eliminate workers' collective bargaining rights.

Happily for this business model, British and American censorship had become draconian.

They ranged from the liberal (such as easing government controls over interest rates, which act as a way of subsidising lending to state enterprises at the expense of ordinary savers) to the draconian (beefing up the police and "resolutely" clamping down on dissidents using "the model of class struggle").

In its place, the regulator will impose a more draconian regime of checks that will include an assessment of banks' business models.

The Financialization of the Economy and the Destruction of Good-paying Industrial Jobs: America adopted draconian conservative economic policies starting in the late 1970s with the advent of the Better Business Climate model.

Although a 2006 study suggested that the slump in air travel after 9/11 delayed that year's flu season by several weeks—and that the effect could be much greater if many more planes were grounded several epidemiological models have suggested that unless a travel ban is "very, very draconian," it will have very little impact, says Fukuda.

Australia's draconian laws against desperate people who arrive by boat are intended to break the "economic model" of the people smugglers.