Sentences with phrase «draconian steps»

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.

Minister of Mines and Steel Development Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said the decision of the lower chamber of the National Assembly to pass a vote of no confidence on him and his Minister of State, Abubakar Bawa - Bwari, is a draconian step.

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Surely the WR, the Liberals and the NDP can cooperate on other issues, just like they did when they took to the steps of the Legislature to protest Bills 45 and 46, the draconian anti-labour bills.

Directly after the Mayor unveiled his executive budget this past Thurs., May 3rd, which revealed major cuts for Out of School (OST) and after - school programs, the steps of City Hall were flooded with northern Manhattan after - school providers, staff, advocates and parents, and elected officials protesting what some have termed «draconian» and «unimaginable.»

By taking the steps now to comply, sheltered by an association of like - minded companies, the likelyhood of draconian government action is reduced.

Concerning, prosecution argument (iii), Bingham f lags up his concerns that the criminal courts have sadly slid down the slippery slope to the point where, as here, witnesses can give anonymous evidence, with the assistance of excessively draconian «protective measures», which cumulatively consign the defendant's right to a fair trial, to the legal dustbin, «by a series of small steps, largely unobjectionable on their own facts, the courts have arrived at a position which is irreconcilable with long - standing principle.»