Sentence examples for make draconian from inspiring English sources

Democrats denounced the bill as a naked attempt to make draconian cuts in the food stamp program.

"I'm getting nauseous just remembering," said Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who as the Cleveland superintendent in the last decade had to make draconian teacher cuts.

"But," she added, "I don't think that you can continue to make draconian cuts in this budget and accomplish our mission safely".

Strong growth would raise plenty of revenue and avoid the Treasury having to make draconian spending cuts or raise billions more through fresh taxes.

E.U. governments will try to ride out the crisis without having to bail out Greece, or Portugal or Spain, by putting pressure on those countries to make draconian fiscal adjustments while declaring political support for them.

I'll hope also that I won't make draconian judgements about them if they don't have a particularly good game". At this stage Hodgson insists he has not even drawn up an imaginary squad in his mind - so the friendlies between now and World Cup selection carry real meaning even if they will not have the intensity of competitive fixtures.

And this at the same time legislators are making draconian cuts in school funding!

Liverpool's situation might seem surreal at a time when the British government is making draconian cuts to its budget.

Voters in the 3 towns that constitute writer's regional school district have been making draconian cuts in the school budget.

"Some of the other things the government is doing are even more radical, stopping us seeing ourselves as public sector workers, and making draconian cuts.

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.