"The states are trying to send a message to the pharma companies and courts: if they can't get the drugs they will go to draconian methods no one wants," Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told VICE News today.
Wall Street fears that the overhaul frenzy now gripping Washington could go too far -- and that Congress could pass draconian changes before thinking through the consequences.
She kept emphatically talking about her daughter 'Rainbow,' so I looked her up: turns out it's spelled Rainbeau and she's Rainbeau Mars, a celebrity yoga teacher who was involved in a Bridezilla wedding scandal involving (supposedly) forcing her guests to go on a draconian three-week vegan cleanse to prepare for her wedding. .
In the paper the other day, there was a letter from a concerned consumer suggesting that we go back to the draconian 55-mile-per-hour speed limit to conserve each precious pint, quart and gallon.
To judge by his frantic attempts to get Number 10 to go easy on making draconian changes to the incapacity-benefit rules, Mr Blunkett suspected as much himself even before last weekend's revelations.What should worry Mr Blair is the extent to which the whole sorry business calls into question his own judgment almost as much as Mr Blunkett's.
His draconian measures go against our fundamental notion that people have a right to be let alone by government when there is no evidence that they have committed a crime and, if there is evidence, to be charged and tried in public, with judicial oversight, not in some secret proceeding.
Obama's success with Bin Laden strengthens his position in dealing with the Republicans who are threatening to allow America to go into default without draconian cuts in Medicare and other critical and popular programs.
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Sept. 19 — The property tax increases were going to be draconian.
"I think it's going to require draconian measures such as they have not even considered," said Morten Beyer, the chief executive of Morten Beyer & Agnew, an airline consulting company based in Arlington, Va.
The president, who as a candidate spoke out against prejudice and making immigrants scapegoats, is going to enforce draconian laws against illegal immigrants, no matter what the hardship may be on their U.S. citizen spouses and children, while doing nothing about reform.
To go further would probably require draconian measures, such as sterilisation or one-child policies.The bad news is that the girls who will give birth to the coming, larger generations have already been born.
