Sentences with phrase «draconian plan»

OK, you've laid out your draconian plan, with a ton of ill - concealed emotion behind it.

On Thursday, the city's Department of Aging announced a draconian plan to close 105 senior centers (40 % of the system) due to proposed budget cuts in Albany.

The Obama administration and the proponents of «global governance» hope to push through their draconian plans before more Americans awaken to the fact that it is the proposed climate «solutions» we should fear, rather than the non-existent global warming «crisis.»

Not exact matches

«He understands,» Poilievre said of Morneau, «that farmers and local businesses are furious that he and his government have attacked them with this draconian high - tax plan, and he's feeling that backlash, his MPs are speaking out against him.

DETROIT / SAO PAULO, April 25 General Motors Co is planning for long - term profitability in South America built on the back of draconian cost cutting during Brazil's recession and the same low - cost vehicles it is developing for Chinese consumers, which are due to hit dealerships in 2019.

The FSB is offering support to local campaigns across the country to protect high streets from draconian parking and planning policies that discriminate in favour of large, out - of - town supermarkets.

As predicted, Governor Paterson's budget plan to cut down the projected $ 15.4 billion budget gap is pretty draconian.

With a chastened Home Office now likely to take a more liberal approach to immigration, it is inconceivable that the new secretary of state could follow through with original leaked plans for an even more draconian border policy in future.

There was confusion among Corbyn spokespeople, but, by the end of the campaign, Corbyn's policy of continuing most of the planned draconian cuts to welfare was confirmed as still in place.

«Teacher layoffs are just unacceptable,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget plan as «drastic» and «draconian.»

«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.

In the meantime, Mr. Cuomo is holding state education aid hostage until lawmakers approve his Draconian teacher evaluation plan, which ties 50 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation to that test I just spoke of.

«It has no tax increases, no layoffs of teachers or uniformed workers, and no walking away from our long - term investments,» said the mayor, who credited prudent fiscal planning for avoiding more draconian cuts.

He said Trump will try to divide the Democrats to force through a draconian anti-immigration reform plan that includes funding for a wall at the Mexican border, an end to a diversity visa lottery that brings in people from around the world and a curtailing of family reunification efforts, which Trump calls «chain migration.»

George Osborne's draconian spending plans are just too apocalyptic for the public.

McLaughlin said he believes Army leaders are working overtime to come up with contingency plans for an additional 30,000 cuts, which McHugh has called potentially «draconian.»

The interest rates are much lower, and the repayment plans are less Draconian.

A more draconian regimen than the 5:2 plan has restricted - calorie fasts every other day.

We didn't find the payment plans draconian; monthly prices are fair.

Her Big Plan involves creating a worldwide problem, then offering a solution to said worldwide problem in exchange for the legitimization of her global business enterprises, but she doesn't count on a duplicitous American president (Bruce Greenwood) with a not - so - hidden draconian agenda of his own.

After years of chaffing under the sometimes - draconian requirements of NCLB, states and districts now have some flexibility to create their own accountability plans, and even include nonacademic elements.

And of course there's the reality that explosive population growth in certain places, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, could be blunted without a single draconian measure, many experts say, simply by providing access to family planning for millions of women who already want it, but can't get it — whether or not someone gets a carbon credit in the process.

An interesting article in The Times of India explains how one Indian state, Kerala, used a «three E's policy» — education, employment, equality — to drive down its fertility rate as far as China did but without China's draconian steps, and without the forced sterilization used in India's «family planning camps» at one time.

«EU to Ban Cars from Cities by 2050 --» Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU master plan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.»»

We must forget the obsession with global anthropogenic greenhouse warming alone plus the implementation of draconian global mitigation actions and shift our attention to local and regional climate and weather - related issues and any actionable adaptation measures that can be planned and implemented in order to avoid potential problems.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

Toronto criminal lawyer Graham Clark says the government's plan to reintroduce a bill that would boost the maximum fine for distracted driving to $ 1,000 is by no means «draconian» and may not even go far enough as a deterrent.

In this week's Williamson v Williamson decision the court rejected a Trial judge's decision to vary parenting arrangements and implement a draconian family unification plan based on inappropriate expert evidence that did not meet the test for admissibility.

«The proposals are now more draconian than Lord Carter's — he proposed a fund to assist firms in making the changes but the government has withdrawn that from the plans.»

Even though President Obama lifted the global gag rule more than four years ago, we are still fighting efforts from politicians who want to impose this draconian measure that harms women's health by further restricting the availability of family planning and other reproductive health services around the world.

Washington, DC — Last night, the Trump administration unveiled an overview of its Fiscal Year 2018 Budget, revealing sharp cuts and draconian changes to essential programs, such as Medicaid, SNAP, TANF and more, that women disproportionately rely on — and for the first time in history singling out an individual health care provider — Planned Parenthood — by prohibiting it from participating in any program funded through Congress's annual Labor - HHS bill.

Let's look at Texas; they pushed most Planned Parenthood clinics out of business with draconian laws.

Since its founding in the 1950s, the International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF - WHR) has been working with local organizations to help women maintain reproductive autonomy despite such draconian laws.