Sentences with phrase «use draconian»

doesn't use draconian and militaristic behavior management techniques that emphasize control over respect, and that doesn't expel students whose test scores may not help the school achieve «adequate yearly progress»

Since the financial crisis (and arguably well before that), the central banks of developed countries have used draconian monetary measures as a means of staving off financial and economic collapse.

There is no point teaching the future workforce and leaders of tomorrow in a tech - optimized world using draconian, 19th - century methodologies.

Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) deputy general secretary Martin Johnson said Mr Gove was «using draconian powers he has given himself in the Education Bill to run schools from Whitehall».

The company uses draconian measures to keep its employees in line, where workers are treated like numbers in a system and where personal achievement and autonomy essentially don't exist.

The increasing frequency of using this draconian and patently unfair tool to deprive children of their parents in these sorts of child custody cases has long troubled me.

Not exact matches

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

It should certainly be interesting, if the RECBC does decide to carry this thru to the nth degree with this example of government meddling, when some buyer, (that can't use his licensee Sister) decides it is a draconian measure for the Government of BC to dictate whom said buyer may choose to write his contract to purchase a property in The Province and brings the matter before the courts.

However, Paxful customers can use their Bitcoin wallets to circumvent such draconian measures.

RICO is the Racketeer - Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, which was designed years ago to deal with Mafia types but has more recently been used to impose draconian penalties on abortion protestors.

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.

«New York has a legacy of progressive activism that extends all the way back to its founding and we can not allow Republicans in the State Senate to use such heavy - handed, draconian measures as they work to push an agenda completely out of touch with the mainstream,» Gillibrand writes.

«Clearly I don't really believe that the police are going to be targeting churches using incense, or stopping DIY shops selling glue — but the fact that these activities will become illegal in Lambeth and are just not being enforced highlights the chilling effect that such draconian legislation has.

«We, the entire workers of the Cocoa research institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Ibadan and members of the host communities decry and condemn in entirety the decision of the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Leye Oyebade, to use brutal a force to suppress and repress the ongoing legitimate agitation of CRIN workers against the years of despotic and draconian rule of Prof Malachy O. Akoroda, the executive director of the institute.

Many have, wrongly in my view, supported the draconian desecration of the temples of justice that the DSS invasion of judges homes in the dead of night represented, but the lesson for our Lords must be that they must urgently clean up the bench and ensure the bar is cleaned up otherwise they may allow the taint of corruption be used by those with an authoritarian agenda to destroy the concept of an independent judiciary in this country.

They say it will be less draconian than having Malloy maintain essential state services using his limited executive authority, which appears to be the direction the state is headed.

The use of Chris Grayling's draconian «right - wing solutions» clearly plays a role.

«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?»

Despite the draconian laws and the alleged health risks, steroid use continues to rise in America.

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.

All eBook readers will come with heavy and draconian DRM (as mandated by the book agency) until one vendor (also with heavy and draconian DRM) significantly corners the market through a beautifully easy to use device, tied in store and large volume of works.

Since FreeTime on Alexa severely limits what you'll be able to do with the device (the ban on smart home controls feels particularly draconian), it's probably better used the Echoes in kids» bedrooms and playrooms and not communal devices like the ones you might have in your kitchen.

Short of the draconian measures they received negative press for (requiring notary, etc), it's very difficult to prove you are who you say you are — especially indie devs who might not be using gmail.com email address, etc..

Whether you're using the new Basic Economy fare, on United, for a quick weekend getaway, flying another budget airline with draconian carry on rules, or taking a 10 - day road trip in a new part of the U.S.,

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.

How many took time to correct the commentators pointing out that the extreme scenarios used to whip up support for draconian climate change policies were merely hypothetical, and at the upper end of hypothetical?

An interesting article in The Times of India explains how one Indian state, Kerala, used a «three E's policy» — education, employment, equality — to drive down its fertility rate as far as China did but without China's draconian steps, and without the forced sterilization used in India's «family planning camps» at one time.

They will ride when our energy systems break down, our means of distribution are cut and agricultural output is limited by draconian measures to cut emissions and use of resources.

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.

Going after China on the facts would be like attacking their ideal society, a repressed, corrupt, draconian, fake, hollow, even deeper in debt, and addicted to creating an endless parade of major white elephant projects, and environmental destruction on an epic scale, where they send an invoice to a familly for the cost of the bullet they use to execute your protesting relatives.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

A high degree of warming does not automatically mean we take draconian measures to cut back fossil fuel use.

In reality though it could be that trying to bulldozer projects through, using what might be seen as draconian measures aimed at defecting opposition, could be counter-productive — consolidating opposition.

The fact is that Nobel prize winners; for their climate work, have used precisely that word, in describing the inevitable result of the whole world failing to immediately adopt their Draconian energy curtailment specifications.

While a stay or strike out of proceedings are draconian remedies, courts and tribunals are prepared to use them in order to protect the integrity of their processes and procedures.

As one would expect the draconian sanction of committal is only used by the courts in exceptional circumstances.

There were some pretty damning details in the 525 - page excerpt report, many of which were horrific and somewhat draconian methods used by the CIA in interrogating detainees.

Although the Court concluded that the tenant had violated the condominium rules by creating excessive noise, it refused to evict the tenant, calling eviction a draconian and extreme order that should be used only where there is an ongoing refusal to comply.

The increasingly draconian approach to regulation contrasts strongly with that taken by neighboring Japan, Bitcoinist has reported, with the country continuing to foster adoption and use of Bitcoin.

I heard various reasons for this, including the difficult nature of using the API, Draconian approval processes from Xbox, and developer time versus value.

It should certainly be interesting, if the RECBC does decide to carry this thru to the nth degree with this example of government meddling, when some buyer, (that can't use his licensee Sister) decides it is a draconian measure for the Government of BC to dictate whom said buyer may choose to write his contract to purchase a property in The Province and brings the matter before the courts.

FSAs, which have been around since 1978, have one big, hairy drawback, the draconian «use it or lose it» rule.