Sentences with phrase «draconian restrictions»
The phrase "draconian restrictions" refers to rules or measures that are extremely strict or harsh, often appearing excessive or unfair to some people. Full definition
Once it is passed, it will immediately become far easier for the government and employers to implement even more draconian restrictions on people's basic pay and conditions.
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I'm hoping that the increasing number of NWSL / MLS pairings will soon lead to a loosening up of some of the more draconian restrictions on rosters and salaries.
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.
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.
So naturally, the Environmental Protection Agency issued another round of draconian restrictions on coal - fired power plants, once again targeting carbon dioxide emissions.
Indeed, it puts me in mind of R v Secretary of State for Social Security, ex parte Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants [1997] 1 WLR 275, in which administrative regulations imposing draconian restrictions upon welfare support for asylum - seekers were struck down.
This will present grounds for justification in blasting someones expensive drone out of the sky, it's going to cause all kinds of problems which could result in draconian restrictions on drones.
Bans on smoking in cars and even public parks are being raised nationally and locally while ever more draconian restrictions are placed on the sale of cigarettes.
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.
«Today's Supreme Court decision striking down Texas's unconstitutional and disingenuous abortion restrictions is a landmark victory for women's health and definitively rejects the state of Texas's spurious claims that their draconian restrictions protected women's health,» Schneiderman said in a statement.