Sentence examples for draconian program from inspiring English sources

Pandora rents an apartment and agrees to remain by Edison's side for the next 12 months, so long as he stays on a draconian program of diet and exercise.

But the five festival guests described Australia's migration policies as a "draconian program relying on the remote island detention centres condemned as cruel and inhumane by multiple respected human rights organisations".

One of its board members is retired Major General Andrew James Jim Molanan, co-architect of Tony Abbott's "Operation Sovereign Borders," the draconian program relying on the remote island detention centres condemned as cruel and inhumane by multiple respected human rights organisations.

The Times article reports further that solution to this widespread "apron parking," which many in the neighborhood consider to be a nuisance, was a draconian program of relentless ticketing.

At the time, the country's dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, imposed a draconian austerity program on the Romanian people, who later rose up and executed him.

But she also says she believes that the government's crackdown on any Muslim groups it considered extremist, a draconian police program that included monitoring those who prayed regularly, helped protect the rights of women.

To counter the threat, Scrushy plans to accelerate his fast-in, fast-out approach to inpatient care, keep prices down and build each of his 14 new rehab hospitals with efficiencies to match this new draconian federal program.

Soon Greece, Ireland, and other debt-burdened European countries were launching ever more Draconian austerity programs.

Choking off growth with draconian austerity programs means they will never pay down their debts.

Until the troubles took their recent turn for the worse, it went like this every late summer: The city threatened draconian layoffs and program cuts in its schools, and the state ran in at the last moment to save the day -- or, more precisely, delay the hour of reckoning.

"Cuts to financial aid programs, including draconian cuts to the Pell Grant program, abandoning teacher support and development programs, and an ill-advised (and previously rejected) scheme to divert resources from our highest need schools would move our country backward," said John King, CEO of The Education Trust and President Barack Obama's former secretary of education, in a statement. .