Sentences with phrase «draconian policies of»

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

If you have an employee who always comes in late, deal with that employee; don't start a draconian policy of deducting vacation for everyone who walks in five minutes late.

Not exact matches

Witness (to provide a different illustration) the draconian moves being made in education policies across the country, right down to the control of pronouns, not to mention powder rooms.

In Jarrod's home country, immigration and asylum has long been a source of political debate, and the pastor has made a name for himself by opposing the draconian detention policies of the Australian government.

I agree on your sites policy of no swearing or personal abuse (although I have seen many a pro-wenger poster post non swear word insults at anti-wengerites and no action was taken) but if a forum does not permit the views or statements of its posters because they are not in line with the topic, well then that is simply ridiculous and draconian!

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.

IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove said in a statement, «As we enter the campaign season the Independent Democratic Conference will continue to work to elect Democrats who will fight against the draconian policies coming out of Washington and have a laser beam focus on protecting labor and our middle class.»

The full U.S. system is «doing its thing,» and the result of that decentralized, bottom - up — and sometimes chaotic — process, which involves not only the three branches of judiciary, legislature, and executive, but also civil society, will ultimately result in a correction of draconian policy.

«The council's draconian licensing policy is unnecessary, unlawful and threatens the very essence of what makes Camden such an important cultural space.»

This doesn't just harm the families caught in the chaos of President Trump's draconian policies — it's diametrically opposed to our values, and makes us less safe.

The NG7 Food Bank opened 30 months ago in response to «punitive welfare reforms and further draconian immigration policy» which it says have deeply affected already vulnerable groups of people.

Meanwhile, Trump's draconian immigration policies have shown that the enlightened notion that an individual's circumstance of birth should be incidental to their ambitions in life is once again a counter-cultural idea in the west.

«We fear that yet more upheaval in the Home Office may result in greater casualties among those suffering from the brutalities of the government's increasingly draconian immigration policy,»

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.

Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, said «draconian policies coming out of D.C.» will make it hard for a Republican to win.

But this is one of the rare instances, like the Gurkhas, where a draconian immigration policy could be overturned through public and media support.

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.

As the prime minister pledged over the weekend to respond to the economic downturn by speeding up the reform of public services, the new campaign warned that a «draconian» welfare policy was not the right one in a recession.

Williams, who ran for speaker in 2013, said the body has to put up a «legislative line of defense» against the «draconian policies» of President Donald Trump.

«It's very draconian in the EPA's case,» says Barry Rabe, professor of environmental policy at the University of Michigan.

But the state has pursued similarly draconian policies in other arenas, one of them education.

and then the attendance becomes an outcome of good pedagogy rather than draconian policy.»

Nothing is stopping them from setting up private academies — but they not only want public money they actually want to shift money from public schools to their «public» charter academies... public except for the fact that they violate the most fundamental issues of Brown vs. Board of Education, they have not unions, they have discipline policies that are draconian and the out - migrate anyone who doesn't meet their criteria.

Ms. Rhee, one of the most polarizing figures in public education, resigned as chancellor after Mayor Adrian M. Fenty lost Washington's 2010 Democratic primary, a defeat that political analysts said was, in part, fallout from the draconian school policies that Mr. Fenty and Ms. Rhee carried out from 2007 through 2010.

I acknowledge that policy is needed, but many of the draconian strategies still employed are not necessarily the right producing the «fix» that we want.

Princess S.O. Obriot has also been a victim of Amazons draconian review policies «I've had several reader fans message me that their reviews were blocked.

Persis Yu, director of the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project at the National Consumer Law Center, called the GAO report a demonstration of «just how draconian these [garnishments] are» as well as exposing issues with the policies themselves.

I believe Francis says it best, and I'll stick with his words: «The truth of the matter is that animals are dying in shelters because of outdated and discredited draconian adoption policies that are designed to protect the emotional well - being of the rescuer rather than to ensure a safe future life for a dog or cat.»

The truth of the matter is that animals are dying in shelters because of outdated and discredited draconian adoption policies that are designed to protect the emotional well - being of the rescuer rather than to ensure a safe future life for a dog or cat.

yeah good old Larry... i remember the pouty face he made at the xbox one launch when angry Joe dared to question him on the whole drm always online connected system draconian policies he was so proud of.

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.

But the PS4 itself promised good indie support and none of Microsoft's then draconian policies.

I love what Nintendo is doing as far as making games for their games consoles to play games on, but they seem almost determined to shit where they eat with their implementation of artificial scarcity and draconian media policies.

How many took time to correct the commentators pointing out that the extreme scenarios used to whip up support for draconian climate change policies were merely hypothetical, and at the upper end of hypothetical?

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.

We need go back just 50 years to see how another disaster in the making — the «population explosion» — led not only to a positive ecological awareness, but also to the formulation and partial implementation of Draconian international social policies that have been revealed in the last decade as being motivated as much by post-colonial fears (and a fair amount of racism) as they were by «hard» science.

Worse, the news media, climate activists, politicians, and regulators treat the «projections» as predictions, or forecasts, for purposes of stirring up public anxiety and trying to justify draconian anti-fossil-fuel policies.

(Aggressive policies aimed at coercing an even faster decrease in energy intensiveness may be imposed, in which case the standard of living will be less than it otherwise would be, but unless these policies are truly draconian the contours and structure of the economy will not be greatly changed.)

But then, with the range of probable options ranging from encouraging fossil fuels to draconian measures today, it poses a difficulty for policy.

This includes conceding policy prescriptions based on their work may be draconian, counterproductive, and in the end vastly harmful to poorest of the world's population.

He instead will allow the EPA to aggressively pursue the draconian CO2 policies to the detriment of the U.S. and its citizens.

JO Nova on how the radical environmental movement has succeeded in the implementation of draconian climate change policy that has created an era of energy poverty that is destroying western economies and hurting the poor...

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.

My reading of the summary gives me a rather more sinister interpretation than the objection that Steve has on a point of principle; I have the nasty feeling that the «right public enablinbg policies» will be the draconian mandating of only wind, solar and biomass as energy sources.

This is at the heart of problems with AGW theory — There is no evidence that climate sensitivity to CO2 is anywhere near large enough to justify the scary scenarios spun by AGW supporters nor to justify the draconian abatement policies they advocate.

Unfortunately, some of the contemplated policies seem a bit draconian.

Addiction experts say that drug users and dealers wouldn't be deterred by the threat of execution years away — and that similarly draconian policies haven't worked in other parts of the world.