Sentence examples for draconian regulations from inspiring English sources

Across the country journalists protesting these draconian regulations face batons and brute force.

Bailey competed at a time of draconian regulations on amateurism and twice ran into conflict with the AAA.

Airstoc works with operators from 62 different countries and many face much more draconian regulations than in the UK.

Belize's prime minister, Dean Barrow, has blamed the exodus of correspondent banks on draconian regulations and unsubstantiated smears from Washington.

The hotel's staff impose on "guests" a variety of draconian regulations intended to prompt their pairing-off.

Health and safety rules for trips will be relaxed again, someone (God forbid) will die and the rules come back again with even more draconian regulations, to protect the politicians rather than to protect the children.

Oh and he also believes the UK is operating under a "Marxist economic doctrine which favour intervention and draconian regulation over the self-regulating influence of free market forces".

Even without draconian regulation, there are all kinds of fee structures that can be used to help people realize the value of water and change wasteful behaviors.

Ironically, faith in draconian regulation is strongest at the bottom of the cycle, when there is little need for participants to be regulated.

But in the short term the result can only be an increase in the conviction that politicians cannot be trusted and that draconian regulation is the only way to keep them honest.

The Swiss authorities are also known to be concerned at the effect of draconian regulation on the country's banking industry, but believe they have little choice when faced with the cataclysmic possibility of another collapse.