Sentences with phrase «draconian punishments»

I wish we could all deprive the government of the income which they require through their total mismanagement of the state purse, however they would only find another avenue with which to deprive us of our hard earned salaries, and so it would continue, Draconian punishments by idiots who can not find an alternative solution.

Yet draconian punishments are often ignored or forgiven for certain students, including athletes, high - achieving students, or those from good homes or the right racial background.

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

And there are those that militate in favour of draconian punishments.

But just in case, a few Draconian punishments should strengthen athletes» resolve.

I'm not opposed to disciplining our sexual desires any more than I am opposed to keeping our food intake at a healthy level; but I really don't think that the draconian punishments are going to have the transformational affects that we are hoping for from grace.

On the basis of this thin reed Stevens was willing to impose on protestors acting out of profound religious convictions the same draconian punishments that are ordinarily imposed on gangsters.

That is precisely what the bishops did in adopting zero tolerance and draconian punishment for vaguely defined incidents not only of the present and future but also of the past.

Not exact matches

This week, JP Morgan upped its bid from $ 2 a share to $ 10 a share, meaning that the punishment meted out to Bear stockholders for the firm's reckless behavior is much less draconian.

There wasn't the need for draconian rules and punishments, because the university and women's colleges represented real standards that were reflected in the arrangements they had put in place to bring the sexes together in an orderly fashion.

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

Policies on parent involvement, draconian disciplinary compacts, and baroque punishments for kindergartners are all tools that, on paper, look good to the educational CEO.

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.

Federal defense attorneys must be adept at dealing with not only the federal sentencing guidelines; but also the numerous, draconian mandatory minimum sentencing statutes which distort and destroy the common law principal that «the punishment should fit the crime.»

He believes Leiper was right to find a breach of the code of conduct in her original report, but her office may have been unfairly tainted by the draconian nature of the punishment handed out by Hackland, before it was overturned.

Over time, with the passage of the Family Support Act of 1988 requiring all states to develop and implement formulas to compute the amount of money that should be sent by the «absent» parent (yes indeed, the statutory language assumes one parent is absent), the court - based child support system for divorcing or never married parents turned into a bureaucratic system with draconian powers to garnish wages, take tax refunds, licenses and impose other punishments for people who fail to properly support their children.