Sentences with phrase «more draconian»

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.

Now Paladino is calling attention to another measure that contributes to the so - called «slipper slope» argument about gun control — namely the theory that one gun control law opens the door to other, even more Draconian measures.

In other words, to avoid frivolous RFRA claims, Congress may need to preclude otherwise justifiable religious exercise concerns by severely limiting the availability of both religious and nonreligious - based exemptions and accommodations, potentially resulting in more draconian legislative drafting.

Gurley suggests financing will be harder to get for everyone, with ever more draconian terms and investor guarantees attached to the money, via what he calls toxic term sheets.

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.

American Airlines can not scrap its existing contract with the pilots» union and impose far more draconian terms, following a ruling...

As is common in proportionality analyses, the existence of a potentially more draconian response helped justify the existing response.

Better to make smaller cuts now that you can sustain than be forced to make much more draconian ones later.

That could give the U.S. a big edge over countries, now including China and South Korea, who have taken more draconian measures to suppress the technology.

«With emissions and fuel economy regulations becoming more draconian, enthusiasts are going to have to seek their fun in smaller packages, and that's where the GTI shines.»

Indeed, what we have got here is yet another Government pandering to the tabloid press with more draconian laws and the consolidation of the Police state that Labour created.

More and more draconian austerity measures are used to pay banks and bondholders until these measures reach an intolerable and unsustainable level.

Granted the laws back then were rather more draconian than the laws today in the first world.

We also looked at more draconian legal approaches, including the one operating in Sweden, which is often celebrated by feminists opposed to sex work.

But, that's really what the left wants so they can push ever more draconian anti-gun legislation Banning guns isn't control.

It seems to be management's constant claim that these are not working so the provisions need to be more draconian when in fact what is needed is better management.

The Liberal Democrat leader, who entered Downing Street promising to undo Labour's more draconian counter-terror laws, signalled a retreat on Home Office demands for access to peoples» Facebook and Skype activities, directly contradicting statements from the home secretary.

With a chastened Home Office now likely to take a more liberal approach to immigration, it is inconceivable that the new secretary of state could follow through with original leaked plans for an even more draconian border policy in future.

«It has no tax increases, no layoffs of teachers or uniformed workers, and no walking away from our long - term investments,» said the mayor, who credited prudent fiscal planning for avoiding more draconian cuts.

Both the House and the Senate bills demonstrate a move away from earlier, more draconian attempts to enact a moratorium on issuing student visas.

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

But I no longer own a Nook because they were trying to do the same thing with an inferior ecosystem and more Draconian rigidity on their devices than Kobo or Google.

Retirees who turned age 70 1/2 last year are running out of time to avoid one of the tax code's more draconian features: the 50 % penalty for failing to take mandatory «Required Minimum Distributions» (RMD) on any applicable retirement accounts.

The anti-cat laws in the suburbs will get more draconian.

Furthermore, actually reducing CO2 levels will require much more draconian solutions.

Carson was not too strident; in fact the President's Science Advisory Committee's report, «Use of Pesticides,» in 1963 called for more immediate and more draconian action than Carson did.

«The proposals are now more draconian than Lord Carter's — he proposed a fund to assist firms in making the changes but the government has withdrawn that from the plans.»

The law — considered far more draconian than the foreign agents law — was passed in May and went into effect in June.

With Trump in the White House, immigration policies in the U.S. have become more draconian.

It will classify all judges as loony and enact legislation even more Draconian than it already it.

The goal is to force governments into taking ever - more draconian measures against their people in a futile effort to stop it.

«For the smaller firms, the ones that have been focused in mining and oil and gas, the word on the street is it's even more draconian than just cutting a body,» he said.

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.

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.

Many ethnic minority voters are worried about immigration, like their white counterparts, but they are much more sensitive to some of the more draconian elements of the system, which have been allowed to run amok as the Tories try to invite Ukip voters back to the party.

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.»

Senior Liberal Democrats say it was their presence in government which prevented the Conservatives capping student immigration, kept open the post-study work route and prevented a more draconian crack - down on the numbers of people entering Britain.

The development is a further sign that civil society is increasingly turning against the more draconian responses to drug law and searching for alternatives.

When the coalition came to power in 2010, there was a brief window in which civil liberties were exalted by ministers and some of the more draconian Labour laws were repealed.

Howarth's voting record since 2001 has seen him oppose all of the more draconian Labour measures to tackle crime.

A more draconian regimen than the 5:2 plan has restricted - calorie fasts every other day.

The bill includes incentives to force more schools to choose the more draconian, albeit unproven models such as the «Turnaround Model» and «closing schools and reopening as charters.»

Their contracts are more and more draconian and they seem to have started the practice of making sure that books don't go out of print (and revert back to the author) by using the $ 1.99 BookBub promo to hold onto books for a while longer.

It remains to be seen whether a more draconian contractual provision, such as one which would expressly seek to effect a waiver of more fundamental Art 6 rights, will be upheld in this manner.

Allen & Overy regulatory partner Bob Penn said: «The proposals are more draconian than expected, but tempered by the long lead - in time for implementation.

«The real effects have been far more draconian than anticipated,» Shay says.

But it should not have a more draconian and less sophisticated law.

This was more common for employer - sponsored plans than individual market plans, as individual market plans tended to take a more draconian approach to pre-existing conditions (excluding them indefinitely, charging higher premiums, or declining the application altogether).