Exempel på draconian

• The question as to why governments do not eradicate all misdemeanors by imposing draconian penalties is yet to be resolved.

• Regulation is pictured as a pyramid of activities, beginning with persuasion at the bottom, and ending with a variety of draconian penalties at the top.

• It would be very strange to see the rules for wills or contracts as draconian means of making testation-without-two-witnesses and promiseswithout-reciprocity impossible.

• Finally, there is the assessment of lawmakers thinking about adopting draconian legislation now-like our cur rent drug laws-to avert more draconian laws in the future.

• The context here is one in which all of society adopted a certain draconian punishment regime.

• Complicating this individual dilemma with arcane opinion, let alone draconian policy, rarely if ever helps.

• There we asked whether it was moral for a state to inflict some draconian punishment now if it thus averted more draconian punishment later on.

• The authorities soon backed away from these draconian measures, yet throughout the war salons operated under the most severe restrictions.

• British intervention might be the only way to avoid draconian punishment.

• Actual draconian punishment would not be carried out by a machine but by human beings.

• This is shaping up as a formidable defense of draconian punishment.

• We might look at law enforcement officials in a draconian regime in the same way.

• What the appropriate way is for thinking about draconian punishment is as yet undetermined.

• If there is a politics in these works, it is a politics of self-rule, however draconian or despotic.

• Even if they do decide to use what we call draconian measures to cut fertility, the outside world should applaud them for trying.