Sentence examples for draconian process from inspiring English sources

Their struggle with the draconian process of creating an adoption profile intended to attract a birth mother, as well as their vexation with the repeated scrutiny and rejection, propels the drama of the plot.

Social services manage final contacts with birth parents as sensitively as they can, but I've seen contact supervisors literally wrench distraught children from their sobbing birth mothers arms after saying their final goodbyes – it's a brutal, draconian process.

To avoid the draconian process of total sample dehydration required in conventional SEM, environmental SEM (ESEM), which can be used to visualize specimens in a wet or partially hydrated state, has been used to observe biofilm samples (Darkin et al. 2001; Priester et al. 2007).

Paul Volcker knows what he is talking about; it was he as Fed Chairman during the Reagan administration who squeezed high inflation out of the U.S. economy through a draconian process of high interest rates.

The abundance of $250 bribes passed to expedite the city's draconian permit process is, according to her, a sad fact of life.

No, Steve Jobs hasn't abandoned Apple's draconian application approval process.

The video is fairly amusing, but mostly because it seems like the undertone here is Microsoft prodding Apple's App Store for both its draconian app approval process and the number of ridiculous apps in the store.

It continues to make it harder for indie companies to hack their way to a more interesting future, without having to go through Apple's borderline draconian MFi approval process.

Those of us who were reporting on German affairs were thoroughly aware that East Germany was starting to liberalise its draconian system, but the process seemed to be completely under control.

At the start of the process a draconian budget was presented with plenty of cuts and no tax increases.

The judge made clear that dismissing a libel case as an abuse of process was a "draconian" step used only in "exceptional" circumstance, but that it was necessary to ensure "that there is not disproportionate and unnecessary interference with freedom of expression".