Sentence examples for it's draconian from inspiring English sources

"It's draconian," the analyst said of his company's Web site blocks.

"We're not even allowed one inaccuracy in this resolution; it's draconian," Gen. Amir al-Saadi, President Saddam Hussein's top adviser on weapons, said at a news conference after Iraq delivered its 12,000-page declaration on its weapons programs to the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad last Saturday.

"It's Draconian," he said.

Freezing welfare benefits entirely A popular measure among Tory backbenchers but opposed by charities and many Liberal Democrats who feel it's draconian.

"It's draconian," he said of the decision, "and the first of its kind, I think, that half of a group of disorders are eliminated by committee".

Wexler knows her procedures have their critics -- usually men, in her opinion, hypocrites who "think it's draconian for women to be doing these things, but leave their wives when they hit 50 for a woman who's younger and has breast implants.

If it was draconian and it worked, that would be one thing.

Many land owners feel it is Draconian and Mr Bush said he favours avoiding "unnecessary regulatory, economic and social burdens".

I'm prompted to ask by the discovery that the most illiberal and oppressive instrument proposed by any recent government – injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance in the antisocial behaviour bill – has been attacked by Labour not because it is draconian but because it is not draconian enough.

"It would be draconian and unjustified and it would have no impact on obesity levels.

If people are informed and activated, it will be something that's more liberal and fair; if they're not, it will be draconian and terrifying.