Nowhere close to us in terms of average income and overall economic advancement, leaders in these countries are fearful about how draconian environmental standards would keep their citizens from growing out of poverty.
The company has paid more than $2 billion to the government since 2006 to lease blocks in the Chukchi, and it has invested $3 billion more since then on seismic testing, overhauling drilling ships to meet draconian air standards and environmental testing.
That was when a new and, by Italian standards, draconian law requiring motorbike drivers to wear helmets went into effect.
A10 Helmets for Italy Motorbikers A new and, by Italian standards, draconian law requiring motorbike drivers to wear helmets took effect.
In chapter II.2 of the party's manifesto, "Bank crisis and bank regulation", the AfD calls for a number of measures to curb activity in Europe's financial centres that look draconian by British standards.
The policy was draconian, especially by the standards of the financial freedom the country had enjoyed up till then.
The highly unusual public display of discontent was spurred by a range of factors: spending cuts, official corruption and cronyism, a defective electoral system, curbs on public assembly and debate, and state-imposed censorship considered draconian even by regional standards.
Perhaps the most dangerous behavior is coming from President Obama, who has been employing Draconian measures by American standards as he has cracked down on leaks and journalists, invoking the Espionage Act more times than all previous administrations combined.
The introduction of this outrageous law -- draconian even by autocracies' standards -- is in flagrant violation of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the "bill of rights" at the international level which mandates that government should guarantee free expression.
Throwback Halloween will keep its focus on paranormal themes and I will enforce that standard with Draconian, or perhaps I should say Dracula-onian, ruthlessness.
