Sentences with phrase «introducing draconian laws»

State governments have been introducing draconian laws to «protect» polluting energy infrastructure.

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A draconian new draft for a national security law, likely to be introduced this year, specifies that the state has full access to any data it demands — already the case in practice — and that any foreign firm working in China must keep all their Chinese data inside the country.

There were a lot of them this morning: hundreds of millions of pounds being culled in departments across Whitehall as George Osborne and David Laws introduced «draconian» budget reductions.

Indeed, every time the tabloid press kicked up a fuss about something or other, Labour would introduce a new draconian sledgehammer to crack a nut type law in order to be seen to be doing something about it.