Sentence examples for draconian movement from inspiring English sources

It was that members of Gaza's ancient but now tiny Christian community of Palestinians – currently just 1,200 in all – fully share the plight of their 1.8 million Muslim co-habitants in the Hamas- controlled enclave after three wars, a nine-year Israeli trade embargo, draconian movement restrictions and a collapsed economy.

The only other outlet from Gaza is at Rafah, where Egypt has imposed a system of controls almost equally draconian, which impede movement in and out.

In his view, "the Party can afford to relax on its Tibet policies, because firstly it knows it faces much worse problems in Xinjiang" — the site of growing unrest among China's Muslim minority — "and secondly, it has now instituted such draconian controls on movement and information in Tibet, way more than in the rest of China, that it must be fairly confident of controlling any situation there".

The budget caps that Obama conceded in 2011 have already enshrined in law a portion of the movement's draconian fiscal agenda.

Aidan Hartley has it right: the Shabab's ranks are divided and popular support has ebbed given the movement's draconian and brutal policies.

It's hard to succeed, Mr. Romney, when roadblocks, checkpoints and draconian restrictions on the movement of goods and people suffocate our business environment.

The government would then have to consider reintroducing the drachma or draconian restrictions on the movement of funds out of Greece.

The IMF has not gone that far, but has laid out conditions in which such controls would be appropriate.Even so, nobody is seriously suggesting a return to the more draconian prohibitions on capital movements of the 1950s and 1960s.

Further acts of parliament prevented the acquisition of land by "natives" and limited movement by a draconian system of internal passports, preceding apartheid legislation by 25 years.

Trump's "law and order" rhetoric and Sessions' support for draconian drug sentences make further federal movement on mandatory minimum sentencing tougher to envision.

All I know is that our partnership gave birth to a street movement that challenged the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws which put me and hundreds of thousands of low level non-violent offenders in prison for many years.