Glasgow's draconian attitude towards skateboarders forces them into even more unsuccessful areas of urban architecture. |
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But even this is just a Band-Aid and the spending cuts will still be draconian. |
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On May 4, the government promulgated draconian security measures to cope with the crisis. |
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He feared the activities of a communist fifth column, and enacted draconian laws to restrict free expression and assembly. |
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It seems the fresco was intended as a draconian warning to potential business competitors! |
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A simple and less draconian solution would be to install a duct in the ceiling with an extractor fan. |
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The penalty imposed by law is not draconian, and serves more as a reminder to perform a commonsense action. |
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This made it difficult if not impossible to move in any other direction than towards ever more draconian treatment of prisoners. |
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To have occasional draconian enforcement might provide sufficient repellence, but is hardly the way to build justice. |
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It isn't, therefore, that community policing is a better way to package draconian measures, like a wolf in sheep's clothing. |
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These hard facts indicate real motives behind enactment of this draconian law. |
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In other cases the courts have struggled against the draconian result of nullity. |
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The government has no democratic mandate to effect such a draconian, even suicidal, change of policy. |
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Such draconian measures would be almost unthinkable in a democratic system. |
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The political party's descent into the gutter continues apace, with plans to further tighten already draconian anti asylum seeker legislation. |
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But one of the activists in the firing line says they're a draconian attack on shareholder democracy. |
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Some companies don't like dealing with this inspector because they say he's draconian and pedantic. |
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Now is not the time to revert to extreme rhetoric and draconian sanctions against those who support abortion rights. |
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This awful, draconian law has not been used to safeguard copyright, however. |
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As we look through this part, the question we need to ask is whether it is draconian legislation. |
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Of course, it won't sell over here because we have some of the most draconian censorship laws in the world. |
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New laws are being passed, draconian laws that destroy lives and syphon happiness. |
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No matter how draconian the laws become, Europe is not capable of shutting its borders. |
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Such draconian methods point to the shortcomings of a cumbersome investigative and judicial system. |
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No amount of naval ships or coastguards or draconian laws will stop it happening. |
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In this way such Treaty Articles are prevented from becoming too harsh or draconian in their application. |
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Had we been caught, we could have faced two years in jail under draconian new media laws. |
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It is madness to suggest the draconian speeding laws we have should apply here. |
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Imposing draconian laws that restrict civil liberties will not prevent terrorist attacks. |
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There was worrying talk about it not being possible to repeal the draconian anti-trade union laws. |
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He has supported open prisons and opposed unnecessarily draconian anti-terrorism laws. |
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I believe that draconian laws are always wrong and the best society is one with the least legislation. |
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There was a time when I would have argued that our libel laws were draconian and should be amended. |
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They have called it the most dangerous and draconian legislation ever proposed. |
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This draconian legislation included provision for flogging, curfew, and internment. |
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Thousands of immigrants have been swept up in draconian dragnets, and many have been denied access to counsel and family. |
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Yet as Paymaster General she has presided over some of the most draconian taxation legislation in centuries. |
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Or we could find our military, intelligence, and technical communities hog-tied by overly draconian measures for protecting information. |
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We are making every effort to try and soften the edges of these draconian rules but brick walls and head butting are pretty joyless occupations. |
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At one point, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was regarded as a draconian measure or last option for patients in these categories. |
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Self-restraint, rather than draconian laws, was key to the most civilized and crime-free society in Europe. |
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A draconian law to quell demonstrations has only galvanised public support for young Quebecois protesting tuition fee hikes. |
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Perhaps you may think that in this case the continuation of such stringent and draconian sanctions is a regrettable but necessary consequence. |
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The combination of unknowable rules and draconian penalties is already having a chilling effect. |
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The existence of such draconian punishment is a reflection of a culture that has no time for thieves and murderers. |
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Sport exists in a specialised world of brutal oppression, of draconian law, of fascist ukase. |
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And he introduces the naive first offenders and two-bit nonviolent users who have received draconian punishment. |
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I am writing to you about the draconian road traffic calming measures currently being installed in Woodmansterne Road. |
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In this reform, Shang Yang emphasized severe punishments, believing that draconian penalties helped to prevent crimes. |
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In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, a dozen states passed draconian anti-terrorism laws. |
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The last two decades, however, have seen a dangerous rise in states adopting draconian right-to-work laws, especially in the South. |
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This enables them to avoid draconian British inheritance tax levies in favour of lower Irish rates. |
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Whether you are subjected to the draconian structure of the military or that of our pernicious government, honest dissidence should always remain constant. |
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A safeguard clause has been inserted in the Treaty of Accession providing the EU with draconian powers to seal-off one of these countries if a food safety problem occurs. |
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Of course he exaggerates to make the point that the networks adhere to a draconian gag rule regarding the most-well-known figure in human history. |
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The type of draconian legislation that produces such abuses is not so much designed to tackle terrorism as to manufacture an illusion of it for propagandist purposes. |
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But the same end could be achieved by less draconian means if the magistrates' courts were empowered to work faster so that those found guilty could be jailed with dispatch. |
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So what does the 26-page report say to reassure gun-shy men who fear they might be put through the ringer by biased child custody awards or draconian child support laws? |
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It's high time more draconian measures were brought in and quickly. |
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Mr Banks said that the legislation was draconian in its approach. |
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It's about time we sorted a sensible compromise and not a draconian law. |
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But it's in the practicalities that the prime minister's approach slips from draconian to dull-witted. |
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Over the years, and in just about equal measure, critics have either chided the BBFC for being too liberal or too draconian. |
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It is just too draconian to pass a law that ignores mitigating circumstances. |
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The penalties are draconian and amount not infrequently to tens of millions. |
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This simple statistic is often presented as a matter of shame, begging an immediate and draconian response to correct this miscreant behaviour. |
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In Scotland we have endured a draconian regime which has failed to achieve its objective. |
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A draconian form of competition clause is found in the contract with Verrerie d'Albi. |
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Such intrusive and draconian initiatives in the case at hand cannot avoid having to do more than dealing with material and legal realities. |
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The British took draconian measures to augment the size of the fleet, improve the quality of the crews, and improve discipline. |
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Our specifications are draconian and our traceability is total, from farm to sale in the store. |
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A number of people were booked quite unnecessarily, causing anger and disbelief that such an innocent action could result in such draconian measures. |
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This photograph is a critique of how draconian the rules of society can be. |
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Any draconian shift on climate change policies would be most detrimental to the energy sector Sunbelt states. |
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Thankfully, this draconian proposal is not a done deal and not universally supported. |
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The result was the imposition of the most draconian inspections regime in history. |
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This configuration incurred a lot of overhead on each node to run any sort of application, and managing misbehaving processes was a rather draconian matter. |
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For his part, Walters has been busy crisscrossing the nation, trying to extinguish even the slightest moves to alter the nation's draconian drug laws. |
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Civil liberties groups have claimed the draconian rules will make Bangor like the communist dictatorship. |
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A few years ago, under the existing Fisheries Act, the minister took a draconian measure that would have eliminated the industry for placer miners who simply wash gravel with water. |
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Tessa Gregory, a solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers who is acting on behalf on Birmingham students challenging the claim, described the university authority's actions as shameful and draconian. |
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Everyone who says that draconian measures do not offer definitive protection are right as well of course, but this does not make it the false security that is being suggested. |
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Indeed, draconian measures can only destroy the fundamentals of a free and democratic society and contribute little to address the root causes of terrorism. |
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The Labour council is implementing draconian cuts in public services. |
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This draconian measure found its root in suffering. |
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He is ready to legislate a draconian, Hitlerian law to make Turkey a total police state. |
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Possibilities include draconian rationing, charging patients, reducing priorities, or limiting the workforce. |
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The draconian measures applied to the brewing industry during the First World War had a particularly dramatic effect upon mild. |
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In 1069 local resistance in Cheshire was finally put down using draconian measures as part of the Harrying of the North. |
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I'm confused by the plethora of overpaid England footballers using draconian rulings made by overpaid woolly-minded judges to cover their tracks. |
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There is also evidence that he has helped to engender the same sort of hatred and persecutory atmosphere elsewhere, in particular Russia, which adopted its own draconian anti-gay legislation last year. |
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In any event, we have the financial resources today to repay all of the corporate and subsidiary debt maturing prior to 2011 even in the most draconian scenario where we roll over none of the debt maturities. |
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In light of the problems, Chaplin's draconian response to the lasciviousness of his culture is understandable, but also obviously inept and sexist. |
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Given this message, it is unsurprising that insurers reacted with draconian acceptance terms or even declinature for any applicant disclosing a history of depression. |
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If proliferating parties can be subject automatically to new and more draconian sanctions, we need to ensure that international law cannot be contravened by unilateral warlike initiatives. |
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With the exception of this timid, miserly initiative and a sprinkling of photo-ops here and there, agriculture once again is the victim of the Conservatives' draconian measures. |
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That is a draconian, arrogant and wilful trashing of people's rights. |
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Instead, the parties rely mostly on Paramount v. QVC to argue that the sale was preclusive, coercive and, together with the other measures, draconian. |
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Over the years, including during Tunisia's last presidential and legislative elections in October 2009, the authorities used these draconian laws to repress political opposition and harass independent civil society. |
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So I share the disgust of trade unionists who now face even more draconian curbs on the right to take industrial action when all else fails. |
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My colleague earlier talked about particularly disadvantaged people and how this kind of draconian one size fits all approach to the crime somehow or other would reduce crime. |
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The high standards of the boss are somewhat draconian however and the apprentice's challenge is not made any easier by the slightly crazy, very tetchy band of Exile Cycles employees. |
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Yet Dr. Burford-Mason is also saying there's been a draconian, unfair micro-managing, so there's a patchwork quilt that doesn't seem to make any sense, and we have to build it back. |
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Earlier historians such as Austin Poole and Richard Southern considered Henry as a cruel, draconian ruler. |
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Editorial boards have zeroed in on cuts to Head Start as draconian. |
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Shutting the sick and healthy up together in their homes and waiting for nature to take its course was unjustifiably cruel, he wrote, and a move away from this draconian system was required. |
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The incremental adoption of these measures by Canada is deeply troubling when viewed in the context of U. S. plans to impose upon the rest of the world a draconian infrastructure of global registration and mass surveillance. |
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The dragon came low to the earth. It defied every image of a draconian being Kulp had ever seen. |
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It's a reminder that while the draconian policing of the Beckett estate too often leads to the petrification of the stage works, the pieces never intended for performance can be reimagined and reinvented in compelling ways. |
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With regard to Mrs Suu Kyi and Mrs Zana, I have again spoken to the authorities in their countries to protest about the draconian conditions imposed on their freedom. |
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We submit this statement in solidarity with the millions of Koreans who have been waging a determined campaign to eliminate this draconian tool of authoritarian control. |
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Under international law, any person sentenced to death has the right to seek a pardon or to seek the commutation of a death sentence to a less draconian one. |
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If this draconian regime for Community Patents is maintained, some users may well be dissuaded on this ground alone from using the Community Patent system. |
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In the particular case of young black drug traffickers, draconian measures to restore public order have been taken and have contributed to worsening the confusion among the public between colour of skin and criminality. |
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Many saw the legislation as draconian, and it roused the civil rights and immigrant communities, who had grown complacent since the passage of the Charter. |
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Yet the Commission has been prepared to accept, admittedly under political duress, draconian restrictions on its operating budget quite at odds with its political ambitions! |
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The reaction of the European colons, a mixture of shock and fear, was to demand further draconian measures and to suspend any suggestion of new reforms. |
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It did, however, lay the groundwork for the more draconian legislation which followed, and in 1891 the Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee was formed. |
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On 5 August 2015 the Baird state government introduced a Bill to parliament to wind back some of the more draconian aspects of their own 2012 workers compensation laws. |
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The more draconian steps include the use of political prison camps, or kwanliso, rather than regular detention facilities, as places of confinement. |
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