Sentence examples for draconian sanctions from inspiring English sources

"Pranksters" have so far avoided such draconian sanctions, though perhaps not for much longer.

Fears about rising oil prices led the White House to oppose efforts on Capitol Hill to impose draconian sanctions against Iran's central bank.

Matteo Caroli of the LUISS university in Rome notes the central government has introduced draconian sanctions to force the regional administrations to balance their books.

"Draconian sanctions did not make sense in 2005 and 2006," said R. Nicholas Burns, who led the Bush administration's Iran strategy as under secretary of state for policy.

So far, the European Union has resisted pressure to impose draconian sanctions in retaliation; passage of trade-promotion authority makes a trans-Atlantic trade war even less likely.

Many councils are deeply unhappy with what they see as draconian sanctions in the deal if they do raise taxes to offset funding cuts.

Ideally, Matteo Renzi, Italy's prime minister, would seize on this disaster to bring about real change with draconian new sanctions.

Soaring student debt, a lack of affordable housing and draconian benefit sanctions: these are the things that matter to young voters Goodbye and good riddance to the former CEO Innovative horror is meant to push boundaries.

But however successful this was electorally – and Ahmadinejad still had a 61% favourability rating in an Iran poll this August – Ahmadinejad provoked draconian international sanctions over the nuclear programme and produced an unprecedented level of bad banking debt.

That sets up the prospect of Congress voting for draconian new sanctions against Iran just as the West is forming a judgment about whether Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, is serious about reaching an agreement that would ease concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions enough for the United States to lift existing sanctions.

An observer of the many draconian laws and sanctions that society has developed to enforce monogamy would be hard pressed to declare it the default condition of humankind.