Sentence examples for draconian one from inspiring English sources

And because India did not follow China's draconian "one child" policy, United Nations demographers forecast that India's population will surpass China's as soon as 2040.

But he said the government's action was a draconian one that represented a "negation of freedom of the press and freedom of expression, which are core pillars of any democratic and tolerant society".

The truth is that both Yahoo and Google would rather take symbolic action themselves than be forced to take a more draconian one later.

Once again, Obama paired a humanitarian gesture with a draconian one.

Remember that China's draconian "one baby" policy was born of good intentions - to reduce explosive population growth in a culture where having 8-10 children was considered a personal blessing.

Sri Lanka is a different kind of war than Americans are conditioned to hearing about in the last decade but it is an equally vile and draconian one nonetheless.

You could go on and on -- the talk-radio jihad against big government that has put gutless Democrats so on the defensive that they no longer fight to protect vital programs but only over whether to agree to "steep" spending cuts or "draconian" ones, or the fear-mongering on terrorism and Gitmo that made quivering congressmen afraid to house terror suspects in our maximum security prisons.

Even the success of China's famously draconian one-child policy is under dispute.

Unbeatable China has a draconian one-child policy, so why not us?

Those born after China's draconian one-child policy was introduced in 1979 are ageing, and there are not enough children being produced by the country's 1.35 billion citizens.

Beijing will now have to seriously confront the pleas of families, economists and others to abandon the draconian one-child rule.