You may still have draconian penalties in Afghanistan for producing opium but you have draconian penalties there for reading a book".
Furthermore, under draconian anti-terror laws, it is now illegal to be in possession of a whole range of reading material.
Under the draconian Patriot Act, the FBI's new powers include the authority to go into libraries and ask who is reading what.
About 125 of the school's lowest-performing students are barred from taking anything except math, reading and gym, a measure that Samuel Harris, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army who is the school's principal, said was draconian but necessary.
For years we've been reading proposals like Mr. Orszag's 2005 plan, which would cut benefits and require some minor tax increases, or Rivlin's, which is likely to be even more Draconian.
That year he read out a draconian speech which condemned Shostakovich and Prokofiev for their formalism, accusing Prokofiev of "grunting and scraping".
Moreover, under her Draconian and distorted reading of the Bible, she should have denied herself the right to a marriage license since she divorced not one, but three husbands.
This means more protection for clubs against noise complaints, redevelopment plans (read: luxury flats), and draconian licensing policies that have allowed for spaces as pivotal as The Arches to lose their license on the basis of a handful of isolated incidents.
But after all the votes have been counted, this is what remains: in this poor country, where many people cannot read or write, where women are still subject to draconian social and economic realities, where natural disasters strike with brutal regularity, corruption and religious extremism were resolutely routed out.
"If Saudi Arabia is eligible to receive Government of Canada weapons exports, who would not be?" "The Liberal Party of Canada called for clemency, condemns draconian sentence imposed on Saudi free speech advocate Raif Badawi," the description reads.
