Sentence examples for relatively draconian from inspiring English sources
The state of Utah, where Mormon influence is very strong, has a relatively draconian anti-polygamy law whose apparent purpose is to penalise dissident offshoots from the mainstream Mormon faith: groups which hold to the belief that polygamy (or more precisely polygyny, marriage between a man and several women) is ordained by God.
He said: "If they target private car drivers pulling up for a moment in relatively clean, modern cars in a draconian way - whilst ignoring old buses, coaches, large trucks, utility company vans or taxis idling for long periods - then it will quickly be seen as yet another revenue-raising exercise".
As a former Commissioner of both the New York City Department of Correction and the New York City Police Department, his public excoriation combined with the draconian sentence he received for relatively minor transgressions make him the perfect person to articulate the insanities of the federal criminal justice system.
"The savage economies that the PSNI has to make in a relatively short span of time meant drastic and draconian decisions had to be made.
My blog has been banned in Malaysia and draconian new press laws have curbed once relatively independent online media.
Some people say they fear the Islamists will impose a draconian version of Islam in Somalia, which up until recently had been relatively secular.
At the time I mentioned in passing that Stiglitz was reaching for a draconian structural solution -- recasting the laws -- but that he had relatively little to say about reforming regulation.
In particular, it steers away from draconian austerity, which is simply not needed given ultralow U.S. borrowing costs and relatively benign medium-term fiscal projections.
Likely outcome: liberal win, either way Whole Woman's Health v Cole: This case concerns the constitutionality of Texas's draconian abortion restrictions, which if upheld would require most of the state's already relatively small number of abortion clinics to close.
Moreover, without an attorney as a safeguard against often draconian or even illegal bail-setting practices, poor and low-income people, who cannot make even a relatively modest bail amount, are less likely to make an effective argument for alternatives to monetary bail and so remain incarcerated.
