His gamble is that, by 2015, the draconian deficit strategy will have proved the point in the Lib Dems' favour.
"I'm quite confident that unless the administration decides to not steward the exchanges because they have some draconian negotiating strategy that the exchanges will be fine next year," said Andy Slavitt, who oversaw the exchanges as acting administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Barack Obama.
But when you consider that Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube was "too little too late", maybe the TMCs are pursuing this kind of pre-emptive, draconian first strike strategy to make the tech firms they are targeting more willing to play ball.
Today, New York is once again pioneering a draconian law enforcement strategy that targets communities of color in the name of controlling violent crime.
Now, Sessions reportedly wants to revive a draconian – and widely discredited –strategy from several decades ago at the height of the war on drugs, with harsher prosecution of drug cases and use of mandatory minimum prison sentences.
Andrews did not think the scheme draconian.
But having shown that individual strategies, short of draconian whole-herd culling, will not rapidly turn this epidemic around, Brooks-Pollock et al. now have the perfect opportunity to use their model to test policy-makers' expectations of their various packages and toolboxes and to gauge their overall cost-effectiveness.
Draconian prevention and health promotion strategies with zero-tolerance policies for destructive health behavior are not part of the societal dictum, or public vision.
The government promised a strategy that would take "draconian" action, in the words of health secretary Jeremy Hunt last October, to tackle the very serious obesity epidemic in children.
YOUR SPACE, MY PLACE There are piles of parenting books about adolescent clutter, advocating strategies that range from draconian to determined indifference.
