Sentences with phrase «make draconian»

After the president had agreed to raise taxes, rather than make the draconian cuts needed to adhere to the law, it became clear he'd been saying, «Don't nuke Texas,» when most of us thought he'd said, «No new taxes.»

Despite recent efforts to make the draconian UK Family Court system more compatible with the ECHR — in both domains of private and public law — it still remains an aberration long overdue root and branch reform.

Even atmospheric stabilization at 650 ppmv CO2e demands the majority of OECD nations begin to make draconian emission reductions within a decade.

The states face a combined shortfall of $ 125 billion, and to help balance their budgets, some are making draconian cuts in public education and employees, including, of course, teachers.

Some unscrupulous scientists and politicians have been trying to convince young people that we never used to have bad weather, and that we can return to that state by making Draconian changes to our economy and lifestyle.

So the beautiful thing about the Passive House design standard is that you won't be making draconian sacrifices in comfort to achieve the predicted energy savings.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, immigration restrictions make it more difficult to import the cheap labor that would be competitive with overseas operations; for an example, see the debacle now taking place in Alabama after the enactment of a draconian immigration law.

And the imposition of draconian measures by supranational institutions only makes things worse.

How do they make those not - so - draconian cuts?

The rule's draconian and one - sided restrictions on IRA recommendations (and favorable treatment of 401 (k) recommendations) will make it expensive, confusing and difficult for consumers who prefer the portability, ease and consolidation of an individually - owned annuity IRA.

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

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.

He has started to develop the same crazy views here in Texas, making him the most draconian Governor I'd say we've ever had.

John Cullinane said: «We think it is illogical that a person can be penalised for an innocent error of judgement in a more draconian manner than someone who has made a deliberate error.

«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.

And under Harriet Harman's post-election stewardship, Labour made the cowardly decision to abstain on a draconian Welfare Bill.

Unsurprisingly, support for the Tories has diminished as they have made it clear — with Cameron's warning of «an age of austerity» and George Osborne's draconian cuts proposals — that they will ruthlessly carry out capitalism's demands for the working class to pay for the economic crisis.

It will be interesting to see if any draft rules contain provision for HMRC to make allowances for businesses struggling in the current climate or if they will point to a more draconian approach to help the authorities raise more revenues from errant taxpayers.»

Who would have predicted that Spain would be bringing in a draconian bill to end women's rights to safe abortion, making it one of the most restrictive countries in Europe?

And we're going to say, this is statement that we're going to make on how New York can really push back against the draconian policies that we're seeing from the Trump administration.»

Chris Grayling's draconian approach to penal policy means violence is making a come - back.

«As communities in New York recover from Hurricane Irene, will Representative Chris Gibson let his Republican Leadership hold disaster relief funding until draconian cuts are made to things like Medicare and education?»

The Paris accord is not such a «Draconian» deal as Trump made it out to be on Thursday and experts say the onus on the United States was not as high as compared to what other countries have voluntarily taken on.

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.

«If you are making such a serious allegation against someone, you should put that allegation to him and give him an opportunity to say something in his defence before you take the draconian decision to remove him,» he says.

Labour should make clear it will drop these draconian practices.

The draconian tax cap limits mandated by Albany combined with the 2016 budget will make the 2017 budget a challenge.

University officials foresee «draconian clauses» in research contracts that would make it more difficult for them to involve foreign nationals in projects, says Toby Smith, senior federal relations officer for the Association of American Universities in Washington, D.C..

It is being done without draconian measures by big government, without crackdowns on our liberties — by women making their own choices

Despite the draconian nature of the laws at least they make sense.

Little mention is made of our reality here, however, given the real and deleterious effects we witness, for example, as current teacher educators when we work with potential / future teachers who almost daily express serious concerns about joining a profession now with very little autonomy, not much respect, and a stark increase in draconian accountability measures that will be used to hold them accountable for that which they do, or do not do well.

Under the law, schools that didn't make «adequate yearly progress» faced ever more draconian sanctions, including wholesale reorganization and closings.

The publishers had draconian terms that made companies such as Entitle and Oyster go out of business, while Scribd abandoned the unlimited model altogether.

As it stands, HC's draconian digital book - burning policies will force libraries to make a choice: buy the same titles over and over and over every few years and forego purchasing new titles or only buy new titles.

Make it worth their while with someone fun, like a prize or gift (I know I know, it's against the terms of Amazon's new Draconian laws, but I do it anyway and it works for me.)

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.

There are cases where it makes sense, obviously — of course Dark Souls has an opaque encumbrance system, given all its other intentionally draconian quirks — but it certainly seems weird that such a despised mechanic is implemented, and re-implemented, over and over again.

First draconian DRM measures, and now trademarks that make absolutely no sense.

Not by facilitating them to screw you out of hard - earned money by draconian means, but by giving them the resources to make the best games they can.

Microsoft has made strides recently to appeal to consumers with their Xbox One by doing away with draconian DRM 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.

Meanwhile, the board also deferred action on its draconian new code of student conduct, saying that no decision will be made on that proposal until next semester.

People have accepted draconian change in the past once their leaders have shown an understanding of the dangers and made a committment to eqalitarian sacrifice.

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.

Other draconian measures in AB32 could also cause increases in prices of things made in California and also could cause businesses to take their manufacturing facilities elsewhere, which is already happening.

What it does for me is to make me support even less any calls for urgent and draconian action on global warming.

Instead, climate reality and natural climatic forces intruded - real world temperatures since 1988 resemble the cyan temperature curve of «draconian» emission cuts that Hansen's testimony implied would necessarily make global warming safe by end of 2014.

I think I'll make a list of people who come here like Michael and Joshua who are always playing apologist for Draconian legislation and pushing an agenda without knowing if the science is correct or not.