0 Draconian laws, government actions, etc. are extremely severe, or go further than what is right or necessary: --
He criticized the draconian measures taken by the police in controlling the demonstrators.
Even if they do decide to use what we call draconian measures to cut fertility, the outside world should applaud them for trying.
If there is a politics in these works, it is a politics of self-rule, however draconian or despotic.
What the appropriate way is for thinking about draconian punishment is as yet undetermined.
We might look at law enforcement officials in a draconian regime in the same way.
This is shaping up as a formidable defense of draconian punishment.
Actual draconian punishment would not be carried out by a machine but by human beings.
British intervention might be the only way to avoid draconian punishment.
The authorities soon backed away from these draconian measures, yet throughout the war salons operated under the most severe restrictions.
