Sentence examples for draconian step from inspiring English sources

David Lawrenson of LettingFocus.com said: "Banning all tenant fees is a draconian step.

Of course, the Florida legislature would not have even contemplated that draconian step were it not for the fact that the Presidency itself hung on Florida alone.

The bank said a year ago that bonuses would no longer contain cash, a more draconian step than ones taken by most banks, which simply reduced the cash portion of bonuses.

"The underlying message is that, in the event that museums are faced with financial crisis, we would far prefer to step in before they take the draconian step of selling art to support operations".

Hayden, who made a similar order in relation to a 16-year-old boy earlier this week, said that it was a draconian step, as was the decision to remove a passport.

The increasingly hardline face of the Republicans will only have been emphasised by a vote in the House on Thursday to cut spending on the food stamps programme, a crucial plank in America's safety net for the poor, by $30bn over 10 years, a draconian step that would see 3.8 million Americans cut from the rolls next year.

Kodak has had to take draconian steps to survive.

The more draconian steps sound like overkill without a dire threat.

I firmly believe that if appropriate action is not taken, draconian steps will be necessary.

Spain remains insistent, though, that another round of draconian steps would not be needed with the spending cuts and tax increases already in place.

Labor Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn said the Liberals were simply trying to embarrass the government by trying to force draconian steps that would paralyze Canada.