Sentences with phrase «draconian about»

This eliminates the need to be draconian about the inbox, but it introduces inefficiency and the potential for confusion into the process.

My husband jokes that I am draconian about sleep schedule / routine.

However, be draconian about time.

Not exact matches

If it hasn't been complaints about the «draconian» nature of opt - in to the high penalties for violating it, it's been overblown rhetoric about how the legislation will prove to be the end of everything:

If you are concerned about Muslims — or anybody else — not being willing to abide by American principles and the Constitution, is there anything else we can do to prevent this, beyond the Draconian and character - destroying (our character and theirs) discussion of deportation or internment camps.

It is good to see a bishop so very serious about liturgical rectitude, even if the focus of his wrath seems somewhat selective and his remedies somewhat draconian.

The term «global warming denier» is so offensive because it seeks to attach skepticism about the warming and / or its supposed Draconian solutions with denying the Holocaust and being «anti science.»

Most of their complaints nowadays seem to consist of screeching about complementary foods marketed to babies from 4 months old instead of 6 months (though the Europeans have long since gone back to recommending complementary feeding at that age) and enforcing the outdated, draconian WHO Code as if it were the Holy Bible.

Its draconian approach to expenses claims has left it deeply unpopular with MPs and has not stopped negative news stories about MPs» expenses continuing to emerge regularly.

Many ethnic minority voters are worried about immigration, like their white counterparts, but they are much more sensitive to some of the more draconian elements of the system, which have been allowed to run amok as the Tories try to invite Ukip voters back to the party.

About 45,000 of the telecom giant's workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, walked off the job on Aug. 7 in protest against Draconian concessions demanded by the highly profitable company, including eliminating pensions for new hires; slashing paid sick time and holidays; and increasing employees» contributions to their health care costs.

«I had a conversation with a number of colleagues where people were talking about the pension forfeiture laws, and how they're just draconian.

Refugees are chronically under - informed about their legal rights and how to negotiate the UK and Europe's increasingly draconian asylum regimes.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan fired off a raft of parliamentary questions about Grayling's draconian prison reforms last month only to have them all dismissed as too expensive to answer.

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.

Former inspector Nick Hardwick's reports into the decline of the prison estate were one of the only ways to get information about what was going on in the nation's prisons, given the draconian restrictions on journalists or campaigners speaking to inmates.

He was also part of the Paterson team that brought about long - overdue reform of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Indeed, every time the tabloid press kicked up a fuss about something or other, Labour would introduce a new draconian sledgehammer to crack a nut type law in order to be seen to be doing something about it.

I'm not sure about the democracy bit in the UK... the draconian measures taken by the Tory - LDs on such a mandate, looks like a neoliberal coup d'etat to me.

But after scandals about forced vasectomies in India and China's draconian one - child policy, such views fell into disrepute.

The Bishops who convened at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 determined to write a catechism for Catholic children — the famous Baltimore Catechism, which was a standard text in Catholic schools for the next 80 years, its questions and answers about the Church and God learned, by rote, by millions of children, in a fashion that might put Muslim madrassas to shame — and then issued what today would be considered a terribly draconian and medieval (parochial?)

Opponents in Houston have argued the punishments are draconian given that the district has about 280 schools, yet a single chronically failing school could trigger a state takeover.

How about a statement opposing draconian disciplinary policies and suspensions?

Little mention is made of our reality here, however, given the real and deleterious effects we witness, for example, as current teacher educators when we work with potential / future teachers who almost daily express serious concerns about joining a profession now with very little autonomy, not much respect, and a stark increase in draconian accountability measures that will be used to hold them accountable for that which they do, or do not do well.

Thanks for spreading the word about their draconian contract and the fact that self - publishing isn't that daunting.

These occurrences are just not frequent enough so that fundamentalists ought to worry much about them, even assuming the fundamentalists had useful tools for predicting the timing and severity of draconian bear markets.

The bottom line is this: The best way to protect ourselves against any perceived threat against dogs is to scare the public with inaccurate information about cats and then implement draconian policies that confirm suspicions that we secretly want an all - dog nation.

You won't meet many night owls in Sydney who are happy about the relatively new draconian lockout laws, which prevent anybody from entering (or returning to) its best clubs and bars after 1:30 a.m.. They've put a dent in the city's nightlife business, angered its best - behaved partiers, and sent many of us outside of the zone that encompasses the city center, the historically vibrant Kings Cross area, and popular nightlife destinations like Surry Hills and Oxford Street.

One might notice I didn't talk as much about exclusivity here, but the fact of the matter is that when Microsoft revealed all of their draconian policies for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 became the default choice; it was up to them to woo me away from Sony and back to their side, and they failed miserably at it, as nothing they showed could overcome their ludicrous list of ridiculous restrictions and pretentious policies.

CCP has draconian and anachronistic policies about giving you those skill points back.

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.»

As noted above, about two thirds of the US is critical, if not hostile, to the stated objectives of those who promote Anthropogenic Climate Change; which, on the surface, seem designed mainly to hobble our already - weak economy with draconian emissions regulation, while looting it to pay for dubious pre-facto «restitution» to more impoverished regimes around the world.

«It is undeniably true that global temperature increases have been far, far less than doomsday computer models predicted — about three times smaller, and there are good reasons to suspect the increases from further human CO2 emissions would be smaller still, without imposing draconian regulations.

So the beautiful thing about the Passive House design standard is that you won't be making draconian sacrifices in comfort to achieve the predicted energy savings.

I will say, however, that you seem to be an exception: As near as I can tell, your pronouncement about what will or won't be Draconian rests on a 100 % certain conclusion about the future.

What I care about is this kind of work gets published and publicised to the detriment of science certainly, but particularly, to the detriment of the general public who are being screwed not only by draconian legislation and theft taxes on the back of it, but by the dumbing down of science education for the masses which is what created it in the first place.

If there is any doubt about which side of the line to fall on when faced with disclosing litigation agreements the outcome in this case (which to some might appear Draconian) should make that decision an easy one.

«I think the headlines were less draconian than many people were worried about, but that's really been the case every time there's been a regulatory event,» Lee told CNBC.

Ten Million Dollars will get some corrections made with the Draconian Fintrac legislation along with a very badly misinformed Competition Bureau who understands little about the mechanics of our Industry.