Sentence examples for draconian state from inspiring English sources

The narrative of a defiant street versus a draconian state, so simple in March 2011, is now far more complicated.

Against that backdrop — and with other draconian state budget cuts under way or on the drawing board — Congress has refused to provide more fiscal aid to states.

She was referring to the gradual deterioration of an imagined liberal society where an increasingly draconian state imposes laws on women's sexual, reproductive and basic human freedoms.

Public access to the National Archives is limited; draconian state security regulations prevent all but a privileged few from accessing their country's past.

In its Friday statement, the army said the draconian state of emergency would be lifted "as soon as the current circumstances are over" — that was far too open-ended for our comfort.

But these draconian state powers have allowed councils to seize private homes in perfect condition, including their fixtures and fittings, just because the homes have been empty for a short while.

Under Turkey's draconian state-of-emergency rule, suspects could be detained up to 30 days without any charges.

With the exception of a handful of upscale cigar bars, smoking will be banned from all public indoor spaces; four months from now, an even-more-draconian state law, signed last Wednesday by Gov. George E. Pataki, will outlaw even the specially designed, employee-free smoking chambers that the City Council had permitted in its legislation.

They get their politicians to pass legislation for them, in order to remove the people‚s freedoms and means of defending themselves, and enslave them in a draconian police-state, under a mountain of debt, and then exterminate the useless-eaters.

On paper, they are less draconian than the "state of siege" in force for decades before 1991.

The draconian, decades-old state of emergency must be lifted and with it curbs on freedom of speech and assembly.