Sentences with word «draconian»

«I expect that $ 2,000.00 can be achieved this year (more than double the current BTC price) barring any imposition of draconian measures placed on exchanges or trading,» says Smith.

Indeed, what we have got here is yet another Government pandering to the tabloid press with more draconian laws and the consolidation of the Police state that Labour created.

They both claim their models are accurate and solid as the basis for draconian policy changes.

The solutions envisioned by the Kyoto Protocol were looked at by the developed countries and rejected because they would result in draconian cuts in energy production, which they judged would cripple their economies.So they decided to wait and study the situation further.

That could give the U.S. a big edge over countries, now including China and South Korea, who have taken more draconian measures to suppress the technology.

This, you say, is in part because the federal government has made «dramatic reductions in expenditures for medical care and prescription drugs for the poor and elderly, along with draconian cuts in spending on after - school programs for needy children.

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community launched the boycott, with the tagline «Dump Stoli» and «Dump Russian Vodka,» in the U.S., in retaliation for draconian laws signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin banning «propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations,» which effectively make it illegal to be an LGBT person in Russia.

One quarter of its members are based in Mainland China, but there are challenges in operating in a country with such draconian restrictions on both the web and on money leaving its shores.

State - based accountability of the 1990's was no prize, with a patchwork of tests and standards, and penalties as draconian as anything coming out of Washington.

Therefore, a misguided mankind is engaged in a futile effort to control Earth's temperature, imposing draconian policies that will limit our freedoms and radically transform our way of life.

Failing to take out enough triggers one of the most draconian of all IRS penalties:

The scandal is growing at Environment Canada of how Canadian climate researchers are being «muzzled» by draconian policies of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

differentiates Canada from other jurisdictions, which tend to have centralized laws on the issue and which often have less draconian rules on disclosure.

You know, the places you righties keep trying to SHUT DOWN in red states across the country with draconian new regulations designed explicitly and SPECIFICALLY to shut the clinics down.

Solo players will also appreciate the savvier AI, less draconian penalty system, and overdue inclusion of mid-race game saves.

It will be interesting to see if any draft rules contain provision for HMRC to make allowances for businesses struggling in the current climate or if they will point to a more draconian approach to help the authorities raise more revenues from errant taxpayers.»

The more relevant issues concern whether whatever warming that has occurred can be substantially, or entirely attributed to human CO2 emissions, and whether we are really in danger of burning up, if we don't take draconian measures to stop it.

The AHCA would also impose draconian restrictions on private insurance coverage for abortion; wrest Medicaid coverage from low - income women and their families; and impose greater costs on women's basic reproductive health care, like maternity care and birth control.

If such draconian regulation in place, then a carbon tax would be a de facto energy tax, and therefore a bad thing.

It is because we stop believing in GOD (s) that man has advance so far since it was lost for nearly 1300 years because of draconian rule under the guise called religion.

In my last film, Sleaford Mods — Invisible Britain, we looked at what communities around the country are doing to resist so - called austerity measures and campaigns against Draconian laws such as Joint Enterprise, as well as the effect of deindustrialisation on places such as Barnsley and Scunthorpe.

I worked with addicts, inmates, families, women's and men's groups, all of which I loved, but I got disillusioned with draconian systems designed to capitalize on people's suffering.

The dismissal of an action where there has been an admission of liability, as in in this case, would be a particularly draconian remedy for the contempt that has delayed the defendants acquisition of evidence to which they are entitled.

All the designers Slanted met talked very positively about the event, bringing back art and life to Athens, suffering from draconian cuts in culture budgets.»

Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) deputy general secretary Martin Johnson said Mr Gove was «using draconian powers he has given himself in the Education Bill to run schools from Whitehall».

They also fear he will not extend hate crime protections to the LGBTQ community and will enforce draconian punishments for low level crimes.

Google — «End piracy, not liberty» — as well as Facebook and Wikipedia, actively opposed two draconian bills Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) that were seen to pose threats to the free flow of information that opened the door to censorship.

Barack Obama's draconian plan to stop climate change is based on the certainty of forecasts of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under the control of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Update on Amazon and typos: John Doppler at Words on Words says Amazon isn't being as draconian about creative spelling as was reported in the Good E-Reader.

Carson was not too strident; in fact the President's Science Advisory Committee's report, «Use of Pesticides,» in 1963 called for more immediate and more draconian action than Carson did.

Moreover, by forcing draconian DRM locks on these games, requiring an Internet connection to play them, a move aimed at fighting piracy, EA has earned the righteous enmity of its customers.

Her on - screen confidence and behind - the - scenes negotiations won the day against some of New Labour's most draconian proposals and kept the flame alive when it seemed as if no - one really cared about civil liberties anymore.

Further, to seek to introduce further and somewhat draconian changes without waiting to see whether the introduction of costs budgeting will lead to the necessary improvement must from any angle be considered to be somewhat misguided and misconceived.

Britain could be hit by a wave of «Greek style» unrest if a Tory government narrowly wins the election and tries to push through draconian spending cuts, Nick Clegg said today.

A higher minimum wage and less draconian drug crime punishments are some of the results of the new political realities for Bruno.

and are there other loan options (home equity line, etc) with less draconian consequences.

In an ever more desperate attempt to hide the climate engineering assault from their populations, governments are taking draconian steps to completely control the flow of weather related information.

From MIT, a possible solution to allow coal fired power plants to meet the new draconian CO2 emission requirements imposed by the EPA.

For the first time in nearly half a century, the report ends government insistence that the only way to crack down on drug use is to use draconian measures against personal possession.

«Annoying» public speakers, rough sleepers and even certain mobility scooters could all be banned under draconian measures proposed by one local authority.

Because you do your best to make Draconian laws to force your beliefs on the rest of us.

And Pogdor predicts that we won't see sentences like this, because because people will eventually realize the worthlessness of issuing such draconian sentences in nonviolent white - collar cases.

Other than closing out your profile entirely, which would seem a somewhat draconian way of handling this, one might take advantage of the ability provided by most sites to respond to client reviews.

This practice might seem draconian by today's standards, but the marital prison was surprisingly effective.