Sentences with phrase «of draconian legislation»

I have been a participant in fighting some of this draconian legislation.

The hypocrisy of this legislation is that it is sponsored by CTA and UTLA, two unions that pride themselves for standing up for the due process rights of their teachers and yet they would dare deny due process for parents, students and other educational leaders with this kind of draconian legislation.

Not exact matches

If it hasn't been complaints about the «draconian» nature of opt - in to the high penalties for violating it, it's been overblown rhetoric about how the legislation will prove to be the end of everything:

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

Many worry that authoritarian politicians are using the heightened state of alarm to smuggle in draconian new pieces of legislation, not least on media freedom - although on that matter the media handed politicians most of the weapons they would need to challenge them due to their catastrophic mishandling of events following the Charlie Hebdo attack.

The resolution, a stronger version of which had been unsuccessfully pushed in previous years by the Democratic committee's progressive caucus, states that the IDC has enabled «draconian Republican leadership» that has «stymied Democratic values and legislation.»

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has criticised new legislation on employing foreign workers that will impose unrealistic expectations and draconian fines on employers.

No one seems to stop for a second and consider the multitude of churches in the NY area who would simply love to sign marriage licenses for gays and lesbians, but are prohibited from doing so due to draconian state legislation.

This has the potential to devastate the Labour Party, and with it any hope the unions have of ever over-turning draconian anti-union legislation.

The FG is plotting to hide under the proposed legislation on hate speak to unleash draconian rule over unsuspecting Nigerians who would be cunningly denied their fundamental rights of free speech.

«Would this administration use a declaration of a national emergency to further an agenda that places at its center health - based solutions, or would it then turn around and say, we have an emergency, we need draconian legislation like sentencing laws, or crackdowns on people who use or misuse opioids?»

But some members of the committee have told ScienceInsider that this is not the conclusion they came to, and that their findings do not lend support for the draconian legislation.

«The Bush administration's «No Child Left Behind» legislation is a draconian takeover of local and state control,» says Dean.

A number of U.S. states have enacted draconian Breed Specific Legislation (BSL), meaning that even the most loving, protective family pets can be forcibly removed from their families, simply for being Pit Bulls.

PORTLAND, OR — A landmark study published last year in one of America's most respected scholarly journals provides powerful evidence that «feel - good» legislation — indiscriminate and / or unenforceable bans, as well as draconian sanctions applied to behavior that is already illegal — degrades respect for law and reduces compliance, while aggravating (or at best, failing to improve) the problems these laws were supposedly enacted to solve.

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.

What I care about is this kind of work gets published and publicised to the detriment of science certainly, but particularly, to the detriment of the general public who are being screwed not only by draconian legislation and theft taxes on the back of it, but by the dumbing down of science education for the masses which is what created it in the first place.

My former admin law professors — Albert Abel, John Willis and, in particular, Jim Milner — are metaphorically turning in their graves at the perversion of basic administrative law concepts represented by this draconian legislation and, even worse, its lamentably and deliberately obtuse administration.

Following on the heels of Ontario's draconian Road Safety Act (discussed at some length in one of my earlier Slaw posts) The B.C. Liberal government has introduced legislation that would create a Provincial offence for driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) between 0.05 - 0.08 (the Criminal Code legal limit is 0.08).

There is much to be debated, but let's hope the risk of possible misuse does not lead to draconian legislation that effects everyone else.

In an interview with GigaOM's Colleen Taylor last week, O'Reilly said he was fighting the legislation because he doesn't believe piracy is the kind of problem that requires a draconian legal solution.

One should not forget that it was Jim Flaherty who had his goons and thugs in his ministerial cabinet post who wrote and got passed into law the, insidious, draconian, and garbage Fintrac legislation that mandated 110 thousand Realtor's to be forced into the arena of spying for the state and be put in harms way by the state.

Ten Million Dollars will get some corrections made with the Draconian Fintrac legislation along with a very badly misinformed Competition Bureau who understands little about the mechanics of our Industry.