Sentence examples for draconian regime from inspiring English sources

This misguided and draconian regime is seen as a key weapon in the international "war on terror".

Nor does the tall, loquacious mother of three a more lively figure than any of Turkey's recent presidential spouses favour a draconian regime of the Taliban kind.

In its place, the regulator will impose a more draconian regime of checks that will include an assessment of banks' business models.

Under Stalin's increasingly draconian regime in the 1930s, artists either had to comply with the demands of the state propaganda machine for Social Realist art, emigrate or work in secret.

But just as British society had held together under the blitz, so German society endured to the end, though under an increasingly draconian regime of threats and punishments from the Nazi party.

Ergüven makes a provocative debut with this story of five young sisters in a Turkish coastal town, whose carefree attitude leads to their grandmother and uncle imposing a draconian regime.

Others enforce draconian regimes of after-school study and all-too constructive leisure.

In the EU only Malta, where abortion is outlawed, and Ireland have more draconian regimes.

As a result of all this, we face a strangely contradictory future in which ever more draconian regimes of secrecy will confront the urge for ever greater transparency.

He complained of intimidation "through an increasingly draconian funding regime".

It isn't true that accepting the science requires a draconian regulatory regime.