Sentence examples for draconian order from inspiring English sources

No senator from Massachusetts rose promptly to challenge Bush's draconian order, thereby to etch a profile in courage.

The council did not discipline social workers but instead applied for a draconian order in an attempt to cover up the failings.

As the homeless camp's acting solicitor, Ben Taylor, said recently: "My concern is that this draconian order would result in a homeless person facing the threat of prison simply for being homeless".

Indeed, when Col. John Van Deusen Du Bois on Dec. 8 angrily ordered "all Cotton-Speculators, Jews and other Vagrants having no honest means of support, except trading upon the miseries of their Country" to leave Holly Springs, and gave them "twenty-four horrs or they will be sent to duty in the trenches," Grant insisted that the Draconian order be rescinded.

There were three main objectives of this draconian order by the police: (1) to reduce any potential contact between the civilians and the shifta, (2) to break the morale of the hard-core shifta members so that they would surrender to the security forces and (3) to completely transform the lifestyle of the nomads from one of mobility to sedentarization.

Amnesty International said he had been living under a "draconian" military order and was now considered a "prisoner of conscience".

The Bush administration has announced that they may be held without even the limited rights allowed by the draconian executive order signed a year ago.

Amnesty International called Vanunu a prisoner of conscience, who had been forced to live under the "draconian" military order after serving his full term.

These policies helped create the refugee crisis that Trump has so awkwardly addressed with his draconian executive order.

Following your helpful hints, we have imprisoned foreign nationals without trial, driving detainees and those subject to draconian control orders into mental hospitals.

The drugs claim stems from the fact that she once represented a heroin addict in court: her party's argument that draconian court orders are not the only answer to troubled teenagers earned the 'yobs' charge.