Sentences with phrase «seem draconian»

This practice might seem draconian by today's standards, but the marital prison was surprisingly effective.

Maintaining computer defenses requires awareness, and sometimes procedures that seem draconian or time consuming.

While some of these ideas may seem draconian, rest assured that the relief you'll feel as a result of getting in better financial balance far out - weigh the temporary discomfort.

Seems draconian to me...).

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Earlier in the week, the candidates seemed to compete to outdo one another for how draconian they'd be with so - called illegal immigrants.

Consider the case of Amazon, which got what seemed to be a black eye earlier this year when its draconian working conditions were exposed by the New York Times.

It is good to see a bishop so very serious about liturgical rectitude, even if the focus of his wrath seems somewhat selective and his remedies somewhat draconian.

Seems to me that it's problematic to regard lust as a stricture and draconian rules to suppress it as freedom.

Some of his actions have seemed excessively and even harmfully draconian.

But: with just a week to go Burnley had only signed Joey Barton and it seemed likely that at the end of the month he'd face a lengthy ban that at its draconian worst could see his season ended.

Most of their complaints nowadays seem to consist of screeching about complementary foods marketed to babies from 4 months old instead of 6 months (though the Europeans have long since gone back to recommending complementary feeding at that age) and enforcing the outdated, draconian WHO Code as if it were the Holy Bible.

How is it that the anti-EU press, the Department of Health and Tesco seem to be aligned in a story attacking the formula marketing law as draconian, when this same law is routinely flouted with regard to instore promotion and advertising with no prosecutions being brought?

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.

Her on - screen confidence and behind - the - scenes negotiations won the day against some of New Labour's most draconian proposals and kept the flame alive when it seemed as if no - one really cared about civil liberties anymore.

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.

For one, given the recent draconian budget cuts that have descended on public education from coast to coast, many central offices have been gutted to the point that meaningful support to school principals and teachers seems next to impossible.

Macmillan's desired pricing model is not as draconian as it seems.

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.

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.

Which is a point that seems often overlooked by those who stress the need for demand reduction and imply that it requires draconian sacrifices by the general public:

As noted above, about two thirds of the US is critical, if not hostile, to the stated objectives of those who promote Anthropogenic Climate Change; which, on the surface, seem designed mainly to hobble our already - weak economy with draconian emissions regulation, while looting it to pay for dubious pre-facto «restitution» to more impoverished regimes around the world.

And to remedy that, your side proposes drastic, draconian measures that seem to fit into a socialists paradise.

Nevertheless, it seems likely that a CO2 concentration in the range 500 to 900 ppm might produce a temperature rise of at least 2 °C from the late 19th century that could be problematic for humankind; (7) The potential negative impact on humanity has been exaggerated; (8) The only alternative to rising greenhouse gas concentrations is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions — whether this averts a «pending disaster» is not well understood; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 probably resulting in some warming; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are neither technically feasible nor economically affordable, and would necessitate inadequate energy supply to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing, leading to worldwide depression.

But it seems to me that if the Alarmists are right, and in the terms they put it in, how any non draconian measures could have enough impact, in time, to avert disaster.

I will say, however, that you seem to be an exception: As near as I can tell, your pronouncement about what will or won't be Draconian rests on a 100 % certain conclusion about the future.

Interestingly, some regular commenters here seem greatly concerned to prevent that message from getting out, to the point of calling anyone who dares to suggest such a thing a paid shill and part of a deliberate «Merchants Of Doubt» disinformation campaign — while they continue to repeat (with no supporting evidence whatsoever, and often contrary to observed facts) that rapid, major emissions reductions MUST impose draconian «deprivation and hardship» on the entire population.

While this does seem a little draconian, I don't think it's as big a deal as the Toronto Star and some other people are making it.

Unfortunately, some of the contemplated policies seem a bit draconian.