Would the results be better if sometimes draconian laws were made even more draconian?
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"It was a pretty draconian cut, and we have had to take draconian measures in response," said Matthew Slonaker, the executive director of the group.
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Humanitarian programs, including international family planning, could face draconian cuts.
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It's oppressive, draconian, and an infringement of women's reproductive rights.
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Yet the government is becoming more draconian towards such groups.
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And so we take a very draconian approach to counterfeits.
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Congress has softened the most draconian parts of the bill.
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Any changes made to draconian laws will probably be minor.
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He's also known for supporting maximally draconian voter suppression laws.
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The Grassley initiative is scarcely a radical and draconian proposal.
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Faced with such adversaries, no response could be too draconian.
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Instead, the Trump administration's own draconian policies are to blame.
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"That would possibly be a little bit draconian," she said.
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Mr. Sessions's approach is both draconian and a proven failure.
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This seemingly draconian penalty is explained by concerns about betting.
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Some cities are already taking steps to ease draconian policing.
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Of course, draconian controls on drug prices could discourage innovation.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the laws have grown increasingly draconian.
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The party's policy toward Islam has been the most draconian.
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There were other, less draconian ways to resolve the impasse.
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Secondly, retract the draconian law of the China extradition bill.
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People who favor moderate gun control measures but worry about more draconian steps can vote for politicians who favor moderate gun control measures secure in the knowledge that draconian stuff is off the table.
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The idea of setting targets might sound draconian and overly simple.
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But support for ISIS eroded as its draconian rule sank in.
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Department stores were up after blood-letting draconian declines in December.
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A substantial magic trick in the draconian, opaque arena of security.
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It softened its originally draconian rules against members facing legal travails.
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Instead, you can blame members of Congress for the draconian process.
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And even those laws that have been amended remain surprisingly draconian.
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Kentucky's state-funded universities and colleges have suffered draconian budget cuts.
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It's not just the Republican party that favors such draconian policies.
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His government repealed draconian security laws that allowed detention without trial.
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The draconian terms make the proposal a non-starter for Democrats.
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"It's a draconian scenario," said Jamie Fulmer, an Advance America spokesman.
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Both have supported draconian sanctions as a way to pressure him.
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But not if we have an enforced, draconian, serious nationwide shutdown.
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When would an epidemic be bad enough to warrant Draconian measures?
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In addition to draconian immigration measures, he pushed for population control.
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The result: An immigration policy that is both draconian and incoherent.
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Impose draconian nondisclosure clauses in contracts for everyone who works there.
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Draconian sentences can transform nobodies into martyrs and radicalise prisoners' relatives.
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It was originally used by monarchs to lift draconian death sentences.
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So far, Polster has imposed a draconian secrecy on the proceedings.
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Democrats foresee draconian budget cuts to other programs if the Republican wins.
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New York-based Human Rights Watch has called the new laws draconian.
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"Apple's moves might not be as draconian for Best Buy," he said.
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Clinton and his allies embarked on a draconian punishment campaign to outflank
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A senior U.N. official has described the measures as "draconian" and "unjustified".
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Millions of women endure draconian clothing restrictions every day of their lives.
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And we've certainly heard complaints of draconian Google GDPR compliance terms before.
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"It&aposs not as draconian and absolutist as defense argues," Sewell said.
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While Indiana has the most draconian mail regulations, others are following suit.
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The new bill, like earlier versions, would impose draconian cuts on Medicaid.
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"Abolish ICE" is becoming a catchall rallying cry against draconian immigration policies.
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Tronc has claimed that the web's efficiencies justify these draconian spending cuts.
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Ghosn's wife calls system 'draconian' Ghosn has also repeatedly professed his innocence.
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With a little heartfelt pleading, the board might soften its draconian stance.
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" They say the injunctions against "persons unknown" are "draconian" and "anti-democratic.
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Beijing has responded since 2016 with increasingly draconian restrictions on capital movements.
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"So I don't know if you need those draconian measures," he says.
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"China clearly did draconian quarantine containments and restrictions on travel," Roach said.
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Evans: You didn't expect countries to adopt such draconian restrictions so quickly?
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We don't want to take draconian measures that would shut down society.
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Last year, the Parliament passed a draconian cybercrimes law curtailing digital freedoms.
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This year, some buildings have taken draconian measures to stem the flow.
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Now governments around the world are trying to enforce similar draconian measures.
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Ricky Olds was hardly the first young teenager to face draconian punishment.
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Instead, the administration has been considering immigration policies ranging from draconian to ridiculous.
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The injustice of it, the cruelness of it, the draconian element of it.
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Early drafts were seen by businesses and former CFIUS officials as too draconian.
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Imtiaz Mohammed of the Islamic Missionaries Guild denounces the proposed law as "draconian".
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But some have been seized and given draconian sentences for seemingly minor offenses.
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Without dramatic, draconian expansion of government, we got universal backgrounds for gun safety.
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More draconian proposals that have failed to pass before could now get through.
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Paranoid home builders and draconian homeowners associations fought the ghastly panels for years.
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Sessions isn't just going to bring back Draconian policies for drug charges himself.
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"It's a Draconian effort that will lead to a chilling effect," Barca said.
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Chief among these, many Barelvis want to preserve a draconian ban on blasphemy.
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Qadri had deplored Taseer's call for Pakistan's draconian blasphemy law to be repealed.
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He cites Nigeria's Dangote Cement, which prospered thanks to draconian restrictions on imports.
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Authorities combined behavioural nudges and public praise with draconian surveillance and dire warnings.
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But that does not mean beneficiaries should worry about draconian cuts in 2034.
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Others criticized the proposed law as draconian and an impingement of free speech.
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So they advocate for increasingly draconian laws that walk up to that line.
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Let's not politicize him because his owner has draconian beliefs about nearly everything.
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There would be calls for draconian security measures, racial profiling, surveillance, and more.
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While I agree with Milbank's sentiment, his plan is too draconian for me.
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Draconian laws such as the blasphemy law and several misogynistic laws were enacted.
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The resort city has actively sought spring breakers and not imposed draconian rules.
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And draconian sentencing — despite its frequent common-sense appeal — simply isn't that effective.
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Palestinians and our supporters will not be deterred by this draconian Israeli law.
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It's also an experiment in how far democratic economies can push draconian measures.
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In return, as well as continuing reforms, Greece must hit draconian fiscal targets.
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"This is a draconian move," SVI director Samrat Chowdhery said in the statement.
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The regime justifies this raft of draconian legislation as required to fight terrorism.
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Suniva and SolarWorld had sought far more draconian tariffs and restrictions on imports.
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The problems of partisanship and gridlock are only exacerbated by these draconian tactics.
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But after three years of the increasingly draconian crackdown, its share is falling.
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Today, India's draconian measures in Kashmir are inching the situation towards the unthinkable.
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Most people will tell you that the cuts are draconian, but it's not more draconian than what has already happened to taxpayers, college students and young teachers who aren't getting jobs – or aren't getting salary increases if they can get jobs.
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It can lead to a draconian asceticism that almost seems to invite unnecessary suffering.
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"It was a very brutal and draconian way of dealing with opponents," he added.
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At the Security Council, only U.S. vetoes have spared Israel draconian, one-sided condemnation.
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Moves to slow sharing could help see off draconian action by regulators and lawmakers.
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David Cox, head of the Association of Residential Letting Agents, called the announcement "draconian".
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This draconian restriction closes off so much of the world to thousands of people.
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Trump called the voluntary, non-binding treaty a "draconian" document that's "unfair" to Americans.
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But that provision is so draconian that it will hardly be used in practice.
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At the time, immigrant groups "denounced it as draconian and inhumane," the Times reported.
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But let's not forget that we're celebrating an agreement that is onerous and draconian.
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To the many people who read about her story, this seemed draconian-at-best.
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This is where the LME's increasingly draconian anti-queue rules are having an effect.
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The re-imposition of draconian sanctions could lead to a backlash, increase anti-U.
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Treatments for obesity are improving, but many are often either minimally effective or draconian.
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Defense connection: Without a budget deal, draconian cuts known as sequestration would take effect.
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Recall the draconian policy of separating children from their parents last spring and summer.
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Authorities have used a slew of bizarre and draconian reasons to lock Uighurs up.
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Immigration activists have long opposed many of the proposals as draconian or even racist.
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Draconian or extreme measures are proposed by some, but then quickly discussed and rejected.
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Wilson Witzel of Rio de Janeiro, have endorsed draconian tactics against drug-smuggling gangs.
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But that hasn't stopped May from taking some fairly draconian steps to lower immigration.
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Of course, if the disease continues to spread, that approach might get more draconian.
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He introduced draconian rules weaning cadres off fancy meals, heavy drinking and karaoke sessions.
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We know that an authoritarian regime can take draconian measures to battle a pandemic.
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Effective social-mobility programs should be championed, expanded and stripped of draconian work requirements.
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Instead, he agreed to make Paul Ryan's draconian repeal of Obamacare his top priority.
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Gun advocates call it 'draconian' Objections, as you might imagine, have come in spades.
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The expected draconian Supreme Court verdict marked a natural start-date for the reboot.
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The UK government is planning draconian measures to deal with an impending coronavirus outbreak.
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The change will give Mr. Sewing a freer hand to push through draconian cuts.
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They give up the bathroom part of it and keep the draconian power grab.
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He later called Cruz's stance on immigration "just as draconian" in the news conference.
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China is now taking advantage of its draconian state powers to fight the coronavirus.
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Opponents call the rules Draconian, driven less by science than prejudice against undesirable behavior.
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Bannon has been the chief architect of Trump's most draconian policies since January 20.
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Nigeria passed a draconian anti-gay law this year and Uganda is debating similar legislation.
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The second is that what I believe has been draconian monetary policy might be eased.
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The odds that Mexico would take up such draconian measures to curb corruption are laughable.
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In a statement released early Thursday, the Russian embassy in Washington described them as "draconian".
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I don't know how this will end up being implemented, but it is pretty Draconian.
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Yet Trump has enacted draconian restrictions on immigration in the name of preventing terrorism anyway.
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That is because Europe's crisis-era reforms also included draconian measures to limit government borrowing.
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Draconian drug laws imprisoned men and women, sometimes for life, for committing nonviolent drug offenses.
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Nor is it found in its draconian and retrograde ideas about the criminal justice system.
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The world is reeling from the draconian attacks on climate policy by President Donald Trump.
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Senators and governors from expansion states have called that funding cliff unrealistic and too draconian.
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Plus, accomplishing that trend would require draconian anti-fertility policies and extremely strict immigration laws.
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Hitting Norilsk with the sort of draconian sanctions unleashed on Rusal risks massive collateral damage.
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Despite the draconian police-state tactics deployed to silence our voices, our campaign was undeterred.
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Exercising freedom of expression on House flr before draconian GOP rules change goes into effect.
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Refraining from more draconian policies may preempt dangerous Pakistani retaliations and threats to US interests.
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Will sentencing be draconian, or will it be proportional, reflecting people's inherent dignity and worth?
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Nor did this draconian approach do anything to stabilize the euro system as a whole.
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Kobach helped small towns draft draconian immigration ordinances that failed to survive inevitable legal challenges.
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Americans seem to have fewer moral reservations about inflicting draconian punishments and making wrongdoers suffer.
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It can continue to do so without draconian cuts (including "a flat anti-poverty benefit").
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If there's one thing House Republicans should stand united against, it's draconian government price controls.
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We did try to adopt him, but the laws in the Ukraine are so draconian.
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The open letter warned of additional "draconian" laws that the governing party plans to adopt.
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"There were dire predictions of a crime wave and calls for draconian policies," he said.
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Despite such draconian consequences, ordinary North Koreans are consuming foreign media at a rapid pace.
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The island tried to meet draconian debt payments by making disastrous cuts to public services.
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Ross thinks President Trump's underreaction makes draconian measures to slow the virus's spread increasingly necessary.
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There has been criticism of China's draconian measures to control the spread of COVID-19.
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The draconian anti-immigration initiative of 19903 helped turn the nation's most populous state blue.
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"It was a very brutal and draconian way of dealing with opponents," he told Reuters.
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That should raise alarm bells about Roe, particularly as states enact draconian restrictions on abortion.
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It was perhaps the most draconian wish list ever conjured up by the federal government.
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System Shock 2 uses a complicated upgrade system with draconian cutoffs for equipping important items.
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Stringent and often draconian measures are also being ramped up in much of the country.
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It wasn't too long ago that both parties were actively supporting draconian criminal justice approaches.
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The fate of the law's draconian assault on civil rights will depend on further litigation.
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"It will certainly boost Duterte's draconian rule in Mindanao," Mr. Wadi said of the ruling.
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But that hides the truth that draconian cuts to Medicaid affect all of our families.
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There is an urgent need, however, to call for draconian measures to make this stop.
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Dr. Bennett suggested that Bacon's bite of the fake hand didn't necessitate a draconian outcome.
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Tennessee has a storied history of punishing parents who use drugs with draconian laws, too.
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Democratic Representative Nita Lowey, who chairs the full Appropriations Committee, also rejected the "draconian" cuts.
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So I think in that sense, they're a little bit more lenient to the draconian measures.
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The militants had overrun Mosul in 2014 and placed people like Mohammed under their draconian rule.
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This is just the latest step in Ohio's quiet progression towards a draconian landscape for abortion.
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The WBC maintains draconian pitch-count ceilings, particularly in its early rounds, to assuage clubs' fears.
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Indeed, draconian policies to expand tax collection often hamper the very growth that brings it about.
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It has to be meaningful, but it can't be so draconian, that you don't get directors.
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It may actually rank up pretty high on the NFL's list of draconian and misguided policies.
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How exactly does one ban all Muslims from entering the country without draconian or unconstitutional measures?
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This can be witnessed by reforming our draconian tax code and by pursuing occupational licensing reform.
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And in those cases, particularly with crack, lawmakers and law enforcement responded with draconian prison sentences.
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Moreover, pot growers would prefer not to be regulated in the same draconian way as tobacco.
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The Church has traditionally been draconian over the LGBTQ community, but has softened its views ... somewhat.
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Voters in Ireland struck down one of the most draconian abortion bans in the developed world.
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Catch-all, draconian approaches to crime don't actually solve the problem or make society any better.
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And we must prevent these draconian funding cuts for the NEA from becoming a devastating reality.
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Pete Wilson (R) when he supported a Proposition 187, with its draconian measures against undocumented immigrants.
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It leads the child welfare agency to be reactive and defensive and to be more draconian.
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Some conservative Republicans are balking at Ryan's bill in hopes of more draconian cuts to Medicaid.
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Charter schools, by contrast, often enforce draconian conduct codes and can be quick to expel students.
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Shame and abortion stigma form the basis for these draconian laws by silencing stories like mine.
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"Exercising freedom of expression on House flr before draconian GOP rules change goes into effect," Rep.
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Other ideas included using emergency funding to compensate those who were quarantined, and "draconian" travel restrictions.
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The Bay Area order is the most draconian yet of measures being taken across the country.
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Yet Trump continues making the claim — usually to prop up his draconian "tough on crime" agenda.
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Moreover, pot growers would prefer not to be regulated in the same draconian way as tobacco.
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Italy, the hardest hit country outside of China, said it might further tighten already draconian curbs.
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Immediate results to stem COVID-19 are being achieved in countries that have imposed draconian measures.
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Jordan announced a nationwide curfew on Saturday under draconian emergency laws that give authorities sweeping powers.
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Some diplomats said the Americans would never accept the draconian cuts proposed by China and Russia.
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Mass uprisings of the peasantry resulted from the Soviet state's draconian methods of procuring grain supplies.
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Only as a last resort can the bishop instigate a draconian inspection known as a "visitation".
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Britain hasn't endured austerity to the same degree as Greece, where cutbacks were swift and draconian.
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There have since been sporadic cases internationally, especially in countries with far more draconian defamation laws.
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"This is a very draconian move that could put Americans in harm's way," Mr. Page said.
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Some have refused to serve Americans living overseas for fear of fines under FATCA's draconian provisions.
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Carmakers that fail to deliver average fuel economy of 57 miles per gallon face draconian fines.
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Wyoming has some of what I consider the most draconian public access laws in the nation.
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Donald Trump has to threaten them to vote for a bill that is only somewhat draconian.
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This doesn't create an unmanageable burden on state officials, nor does it require a draconian bill.
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The second round of sanctions would be "more draconian," the State Department said at the time.
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" José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch cited Castro's "draconian rule and the harsh punishments.
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Critics, however, say the draconian measures limit civil liberties and have turned France into a police state.
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Once I stopped being quite so draconian with my diet, those less desirable side effects quickly dissipated.
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New York's laws are draconian and more invasive, expensive, and cumbersome than those of most other states.
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Lam added that more draconian measures could be enacted under emergency powers, if protests continue to intensify.
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"I really don't like it when we are portrayed as the draconian, rigorous, terrible IMF," she said.
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One faction positions itself as a beleaguered voice of dissent, bravely pushing back against some draconian orthodoxy.
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The bill provides for sweeping powers of arrest and a draconian ban on free assembly and expression.
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Malaysia, meanwhile, has used draconian security laws to detain scores of suspected militants and Islamic State sympathizers.
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The Islamists have been joined by liberals, who quickly soured on Mr Sisi's inept and draconian rule.
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North Korea's government still exercises draconian control over the information flows in and out of the country.
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Abiy has freed thousands of political prisoners and begun rewriting some of the country's most draconian statutes.
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Piracy lets people sidestep expensive movie tickets, pricey DVR fees, and draconian DRM in their video games.
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This is where the laptop ban seems a draconian response to a credible, but not specific, threat.
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Craig Bennett, CEO of green group Friends of the Earth, called the temporary order "draconian, appalling, shocking".
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The most draconian version could strip 800,000 people of work permits at once on March 13, 2018.
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The president also defended draconian security measures implemented since November that his Socialist government had once shunned.
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Our analysis does not provide direct proof that mega-donors embrace the Republican Party's draconian immigration measures.
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But the country was spared the draconian spending cuts that many had feared from a Republican government.
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The main culprit is land regulation, which is strict everywhere in Britain but draconian in the capital.
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The authorities are acting in a typically draconian fashion to stem the exodus of capital and people.
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But, given the increasingly draconian immigration policies of the Trump administration, have they made a bad bet?
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Bevin tried and failed to call a special session last year to pass his most draconian ideas.
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Such a draconian measure would need an equally immense justification, such as the end of mass murder.
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Draconian new anti-abortion measures have also won wide margins of approval in Georgia, Ohio, and Missouri.
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The laws of England and Wales have long been decried by the papers as oppressive and draconian.
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And there has been a flurry of legislative change, each Immigration Act more draconian than the next.
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Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong have brought outbreaks under control — and without resorting to China's draconian measures.
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The Indian government recently introduced a set of draconian digital restrictions meant, it says, to reduce misinformation.
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And the draconian federal regulations over the waters of N.Y.C. seem to do more harm than good.
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Japan, with 2,083 confirmed cases, seemed to do the impossible — contain the virus without imposing draconian measures.
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Admittedly, Beijing imposed draconian measures to stem the rise, which might not be acceptable in other countries.
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He has called for draconian policies that would make it easier for the police to kill criminals.
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Check. Fingerprints all over America's draconian crime policies that had a major effect on mass incarceration rates?
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It can enforce immigration laws without such draconian measures and protect children, who are most easily exploited.
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China bought the rest of the world time with draconian quarantines designed to contain the novel coronavirus.
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Border-state Republicans blocked his Mexico wall and other Republicans are blocking his draconian replacement of Obamacare.
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But even without such a draconian step, Daegu itself has already become something of a national pariah.
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Trump downplayed the risks of a trade war on Tuesday, and said his proposals wouldn't be draconian.
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The most draconian version could strip 800,000 people of work permits at once on March 5, 2018.
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States rushed to pass even more draconian versions, with Connecticut banning all forms of birth control entirely.
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Some agencies will face funding losses but they are far more likely to be incremental than draconian.
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Digital campaigners have attacked Prime Minister Theresa May for her "risky" and "draconian" outlook on the internet.
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Among these laws' provisions were draconian fines for violating broad proscriptions on 'vagrancy' and other dubious offenses.
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The most draconian duties have come from Europe, where the rate on American whiskey is 25 percent.
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"Honduras' draconian law is leading to enormous suffering among women and girls and their families," Wurth said.
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A Morrison government and its inclination towards draconian and harsh policies instils fear in those seeking safety.
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The alternatives are to do nothing about inequality, or to introduce draconian taxes or regulation to redistribute income.
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Some parents viewed the law as draconian, putting decisions about their children's health into the hands of government.
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Women are unlikely to stop having abortions; with the GOP's draconian measures, they would just become less safe.
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That war also fueled violence, as draconian laws and discriminatory enforcement led to record levels of mass incarceration.
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He threatened severe punishment for criminal activity and vowed to maintain security, while denying authorities were being draconian.
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Some suspected the draconian measures reflected Mr Jacques's impatience to put Simandou quickly behind him and move on.
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In addition to supporting the Hyde amendment, Pence has passed draconian anti-abortion policies in his home state.
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She said the idea was "draconian" and "Orwellian," raising concern she is sympathetic to the anti-vaccine movement.
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"That would be pretty draconian, and I think would not be proportional" to France's digital tax, Hufbauer said.
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Earlier this month Alabama passed an even more draconian law banning all abortions at any stage of pregnancy.
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El Salvador's draconian abortion law — the procedure is banned there under all circumstances — has led to horrific outcomes.
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"The longer you wait," he said, "the more draconian the measures have to be to fix the problem."
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Men and women were subject to draconian laws that restricted access to music, TV, and non-religious books.
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While most customers aren't yet hitting Comcast's terabyte usage caps, other ISPs have imposed far more draconian limits.
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The Pirate Party movement started in Sweden in 2006, with a group focusing on changing draconian copyright laws.
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Divorced from Nintendo's famously draconian licensing strategy, it introduced new ways of thinking about well-tread video games.
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The rub is that it would give hardliners a chance to push through even more draconian immigration policies.
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Others have indicated they also intend to jump into the debate, some with even more draconian proposals. Sen.
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As a result of these draconian policies, 97 percent of Kansas counties have no clinics that provide abortions.
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Autocrats in Asia, the Middle East and Africa have emulated Mr. Putin's draconian laws restricting civil society groups.
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"That's what I told our caucus — that this will be draconian," he said, referring to the looming cuts.
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Draconian immigration measures are often passed without due consideration for the human toll and opportunity cost they represent.
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"It was a very brutal and draconian way of dealing with opponents," Chombo's lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, told Reuters.
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Last month, Williamson walked back comments calling mandated vaccines "draconian" and "Orwellian," comparing them to the abortion debate.
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Republicans who run Congress would face extreme pressure to consider whether the President's actions merit such draconian action.
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Regulators intensified the crackdown on speculators by rolling out more draconian measures in big cities from late March.
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The extent to which it's being exercised and put forth as a draconian set of policies, however, is.
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Paired with the draconian measures imposed by China, this might have extended the window for strengthening domestic preparedness.
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Martin Horn, a former Department of Correction commissioner, said the facility was not "luxurious," but not "draconian" either.
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Some experts warn that draconian measures could torpedo Europe's anemic economic growth more than the coronavirus outbreak would.
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And on Thursday, Russian lawmakers approved draconian bills that critics fear would essentially outlaw dissent on the internet.
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As HuffPost reported, white supremacists cheered at the news that Alabama had passed its draconian anti-abortion law.
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If you take a draconian stance, you are essentially threatening to put an addicted person into abrupt withdrawal.
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They need desperately to find emblems of minority pathology to justify their calloused, draconian approach to minority issues.
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It is becoming clear that increasingly draconian lockdown measures and travel restrictions are often too little, too late.
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Few in either party will defend China's management of the virus, or call to emulate its draconian methods.
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At Challagi, the days of draconian punishments are past, but still far more students run away than graduate.
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Often framed as a public awareness campaign, these posts constitute a draconian shaming practice that borders on defamation.
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Imperial's dire warning persuaded the U.S. and UK governments into draconian action, shuttering large swathes of the economy.
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" He added that the containment measures China has taken to curb the spread of the virus are "draconian.
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Legalization has this potential, as demonstrated in various states throughout the country that have scrapped these draconian laws.
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That is roughly 10 percent of the BBC's budget and would force draconian cuts in staff and programming.
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My father, the late Jules Browde, was the chairman of Lawyers for Human Rights during that draconian rule.
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Germany, the most influential country within the EU, could help put an end to the draconian labeling measure.
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"It's clear that [Google's] draconian, pernicious, and unlawful conduct isn't about us," the employees said in a statement.
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Trump is clearly stoking this xenophobic strain in the American psyche, energizing his base with draconian policy pronouncements.
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"The State Department has never had to operate under the draconian levels proposed by the President," Lowey said.
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What's more, the commission was stacked with voter suppression enthusiasts who have long supported draconian voter ID laws.
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Instead of addressing our maternal mortality crisis, GOP legislators are playing politics, pushing draconian bills like HB 481.
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There is, at this point, a worsening humanitarian crisis, actively fueled by the draconian policies of the administration.
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Women just thrown in jail — women with families, with children — because of a very draconian view toward abortion.
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The Eighth Amendment to Ireland's constitution is one of the most draconian abortion restrictions in the developed world.
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Osborne has scrapped a draconian part of new accountability rules for banks and cut levies on bank balance sheets.
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Did you know that draconian condom laws are driving all the major porn studios to little 'ol Portland, Oregon?
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That cuts that were described were draconian and there is a great deal of angst right now among employees.
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Nor was he willing to agree to the draconian spending cuts that congressional Republicans were eager to see enacted.
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"I don't see them leaving the table, but I don't see them agreeing to these draconian proposals," he said.
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But recent moves toward draconian limits on abortion in the states, and fears over the future of Roe v.
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The Church in Ireland still exerts a patriarchal force over women which is evident from country's draconian abortion laws.
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The immediate spark for the protest was a draconian new labor law rammed through by Orbán's party on Wednesday.
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So why did the state of Rio de Janeiro vote this year for Mr. Witzel and his draconian rhetoric?
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" She added: "As it stands, the OSA is reputedly one of the most draconian secrecy laws in the world.
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He offered some help for hard-up Britons by easing the pace of an excessively draconian squeeze of welfare.
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Other foreign internet companies allowed to operate in China, such as LinkedIn, comply with the country's draconian censorship regime.
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Two days after he posted his video, he was arrested and thrown in jail under Singapore's draconian speech laws.
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What some opponents see as a draconian enforcement policy has sparked protests, including one Wednesday that featured Democratic lawmakers.
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But just because the order is draconian, this order that's forcing the prohibition of magic, doesn't mean they're wrong.
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"This record high number results entirely from the draconian enforcement policies of the Trump Administration," Landy told BuzzFeed News.
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Khan came under fire this month for defending the country's draconian blasphemy laws, which can warrant the death penalty.
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Under Mr Sisi's draconian rule, many members have fled the country, but others stayed and some have turned violent.
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The Montreal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has called the ban "draconian," according to BBC News.
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The flipside of this draconian approach was a sophisticated culture of concealment, in which resistance was disguised as obedience.
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The question is, who will be next and what sort of draconian punishment should they expect if they have?
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If you think the idea of force-feeding cyber security to business is draconian, look at Microsoft Windows 10.
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What if draconian Obama-era immigration policies cause Latinos to tune out the Democrats as well as the Republicans?
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Since then, to pay off creditors, Puerto Ricans have borne draconian cuts in education, public transportation, health, and utilities.
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In promoting draconian immigration policies, the president repeatedly has cited the opioid crisis as one reason for the crackdown.
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She says he resigned in part because he couldn't in good conscience continue to execute laws that were draconian.
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This was followed by the draconian act of 230, which increased fees from £83,28 [$2400,2182] to £3,000 [$4,300] pounds.
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He has also been a vocal critic of draconian drug test policies in sports, specifically those surrounding cannabis usage.
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That authority results in Draconian enforcement, however, when used capriciously to uphold debatable policies that aren't relevant to safety.
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France's model promotes a secular, collective national identity, backed by draconian powers for counter-terror spooks, police and judges.
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Democrats will not accept the draconian nativist immigration proposal as it was laid out in the speech last night.
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Liberals are happier to rage at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its draconian push to round up undocumented immigrants.
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Hobbled by the draconian pay-go rules, legislation to cover the victims of military toxic exposure languishes in committee.
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Concerns over Internet privacy should be addressed in less burdensome ways than the EU's draconian General Data Protection Regulation.
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New Zealand should look to the data in Australia and note that draconian gun bans simply do not work.
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While government regulation and oversight is very necessary in the agriculture space, some draconian laws simply don't make sense.
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With parliament passive in recent years, successive governments have been able to enact draconian temporary laws restricting public freedoms.
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It's time to end this draconian policy and return to treating immigration as a civil — not a criminal — issue.
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This, of course, is pretty much the opposite of what Trump's vague but draconian budget proposal has called for.
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It will be important to free states from draconian, unnecessary federal regulations that increase the cost of infrastructure projects.
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Dissenters in military-run Thailand often receive lengthy prison sentences under draconian laws on computer crime and royal defamation.
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The unions called the notice "draconian" and said it showed the agency was unwilling to reach a fair solution.
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The Turkish government is meanwhile trying to expand its draconian antiterrorism laws to censor speech and other political activities.
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At the same time, medical budgets were not shielded from draconian cuts, which increased barriers to accessing medical care.
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And then there's the ever-present spectre of Ireland's draconian licensing laws, forcing the music to stop at 3am.
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Especially here in the States, where the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has codified such overreaction into draconian law.
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Hopefully, as marijuana laws become less draconian, psychologists will have more freedom to study its effects—positive and negative.
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In recent months, a dozen states have taken steps to pass laws that restrict abortion rights in Draconian ways.
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The prince was easing up on the draconian restrictions on women to get a gloss as a liberal visionary.
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Yet combating it with draconian measures could hurt growth by discouraging both officials and entrepreneurs from taking economic risks.
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Her lawyer, Todd Spodek, called the sentence "draconian," arguing that his client was not violent or a career criminal.
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He is among the hardest of hard-liners, known for spurring his boss to pursue ever more draconian measures.
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The draconian abortion restrictions are focused on poor women in conservative states such as Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia and Mississippi.
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Johnson's government also dramatically changed course after seeing the report, adopting more draconian measures designed to suppress the outbreak.
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That same fear leads to widespread support for draconian public health measures as long as they keep people safe.
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Once in power, the Bolsheviks imposed draconian measures to combat crime and attacked their political opponents with similar ferocity.
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But it is not necessarily the case that the more draconian Chinese approach made a difference in the outcomes.
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China is trying to kick its economy back into gear after draconian coronavirus countermeasures ground it to a halt.
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But after draconian containment measures and colossal medical efforts, new reported cases there have slowed almost to a standstill.
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A giant hat tip, however, to the person on Twitter who pointed out the company's draconian terms and conditions.
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Despite this apparent good news, stringent and often draconian measures are being ramped up in much of the country.
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Feature Living under draconian state laws, Arizona activists honed an effective strategy for keeping undocumented immigrants in the country.
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That may reflect a change of operating model by warehouse operators in reaction to the LME's increasingly draconian measures.
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In other words, draconian sentencing policies have already kept people in prison as they age, grow ill and die.
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Company town citizens suffer under horrific and draconian rules, too, indoctrinated by corporate propaganda to imagine a better life.
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Officials are considering a series of draconian measures under plans revealed by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday.
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He vowed to stand with the people of the United States against what he called a "draconian" international deal.
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Only a draconian punishment, they say, will keep the playing field even and force Russia to change its behavior.
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That was despite a draconian effort by the previous Socialist government to impose a super-tax on high earners.
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We need to be able to respond to them without losing momentum and without imposing draconian regulations or taxes.
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Thankfully, Green's old peers in the House have mostly rejected the draconian cuts to USAID proposed by the administration.
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Many of my friends are arrested under draconian laws under which they can get no bail for no crime.
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However, when someone's life is threatened, their urgent need to flee cannot be stopped, even by draconian fear tactics.
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Many Mexican officials fear that it is precisely this kind of draconian change that Mr. Trump has in mind.
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There seems to be no support in Congress for exempting veterans benefits from the draconian demands of this law.
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Now similar amendments have been proposed in Iowa and Kentucky, two states with the most draconian of such bans.
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In the long term, they can also motivate draconian policy changes that emphasize law and order above all else.
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The forceful move is meant to discourage border crossings, but immigrant groups have denounced it as draconian and inhumane.
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And while it seems draconian, it actually does make some sense—especially if it's in response to a specific threat.
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Draconian rules held him in place just long enough for him to miss out on the paycheck his talent merited.
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Besides being problematic and offensive, Insatiable glamorizes a draconian, medically necessary liquid-only diet as a viable weight loss method.
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But it also forced it to consider how its own draconian laws for women played a role in her death.
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Trump could go further by amending the draconian rules that completely and utterly separate investment bankers from equity research analysts.
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Critics argue the draconian terror laws have been used to silence dissent, leading to prosecution of journalists, academics and activists.
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"Chief Gallagher faces a draconian punishment that does not fit the conduct," Mr. Parlatore wrote in a request for clemency.
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It began offering in-office therapy, took steps to make corporate compensation more fair, and made driver ratings less draconian.
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While the problem has been exacerbated in China by draconian family planning laws, aging is a major issue throughout Asia.
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Despite the draconian political climate and new legal threats, however, there are also some ripples of hope, dignity and survival.
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Mr Xi's constitutional changes—which go beyond scrapping term limits—could make the political system even more opaque and draconian.
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The government must then accept draconian austerity policies, higher inflation (as it prints money to cover its bills) or default.
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Through these draconian laws, arbitrary arrests and extortion by the police, the Nigerian government sanctions violence against its LGBTQ+ citizens.
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Those who criticize raising the age limit call the efforts draconian and a violation of some cultural and religious customs.
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They will recycle the hoary script about nationalism and 'scapegoating' immigrants as a means of pushing through a draconian agenda.
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While Mayor Ed Lee celebrates new community development and housing initiatives, he's also enforcing cruel and draconian anti-homelessness laws.
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The draconian laws and abusive practices that Russian authorities rely on to silence protests should raise alarm in FIFA headquarters.
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That would leave FEMA little choice but to invoke draconian emergency measures to maintain national order amidst hunger and anger.
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But this terrible CBO score will put an enormous amount of pressure on senators to produce a less draconian bill.
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Steffon Josey-Davis, 22019, was the victim of Draconian anti-gun laws in New Jersey that nearly left him defenseless.
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Senior opposition figures claim tens of thousands of people have been murdered in the name of Duterte's draconian drug policy.
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The nominal national debt is around $19 trillion, an attention-grabbing number that conservatives use to justify draconian spending cuts.
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More infamously, Salavati has imposed draconian sentences, including the death penalty, lashes, and elongated jail terms, on countless political prisoners.
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But the entire country has a history of draconian laws when it comes to free speech, particularly on the internet.
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Speaking to VICE over the phone, Mohammed Khan, the group's project manager, describes a policy that is discriminatory and draconian.
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And he hasn't retaliated against Beijing's abusive trade practices with draconian measures of his own, as his campaign once foreboded.
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Moreover, Americans roundly reject the draconian cuts Republicans want to make in order to balance the budget in short order.
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A criminal code in Indonesia led to protests against its draconian laws, and the president's second term faces ongoing dissent.
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Draconian bills from Senator Ayotte (R-NH) – who wished to dramatically increase penalties for small amounts of fentanyl – and Rep.
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It has enforced draconian drug laws and spent millions on public education to stem its distinction as a pot mecca.
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This will give it the same draconian powers of detention that the current party watchdog uses solely against party members.
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Faced with climate change and inequality, the temptation is to call for draconian top-down measures to throttle economic activity.
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As draconian as your landlord's solution to this common problem may seem, your rights to fight it may be limited.
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ISIS promised to impose the most draconian restrictions on women, in a one-upmanship meant to outdo already zealous competitors.
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Politicians, including President Jair Bolsonaro, have promised to resort to draconian means to restore order in the country's violent cities.
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The transmission effect from virus containment goes through draconian quarantines, restrictions on travel and fear of assembly in public places.
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Chinese citizens have always found ways to circumvent Beijing's draconian system, and the same is happening during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Few other countries are currently looking to reverse course on the draconian measures being taken to slow the disease's transmission.
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And the agency responsible for protecting Brazil's vast system of indigenous reserves is being virtually dismantled by draconian staff cuts.
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China's effort to restart its economy after draconian coronavirus countermeasures is proving to be more difficult than shutting it down.
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Malaysia's bill has been labeled especially draconian by Steven Gan, the editor-in-chief of prominent online news site, Malaysiakini.
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But the Trump administration has defied these protections, instead putting in place draconian policies meant to target vulnerable migrant workers.
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That draconian measure has made it impossible for groups like his to smuggle refugees out of North Korea, he said.
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They have to address the country's economic woes, and the Islamic Republic cannot expect halcyon stability under unending draconian sanctions.
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And trading the DREAM Act for provisions that immigrant-rights groups oppose as too draconian could split the Democratic coalition.
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While the Trump administration has proposed draconian cuts, even Republicans have acknowledged that these reductions have no chance of passing.
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" Western allies have called on Mr. Sisi to reject the proposed regulation of foreign aid, which Senator McCain termed "draconian.
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"In our view, even draconian measures should not greatly offset already strong US corporate fundamentals," they wrote in a note.
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From the comfort of the statehouse, they can pass draconian laws that don't reflect public support for legal abortion. Rep.
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In recent weeks, officials at both endowments were hopeful that President Trump would not propose draconian cuts, let alone elimination.
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To justify imposing draconian immigration restrictions, Trump and Sessions link MS-13's crimes to the issue of illegal immigration.
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Iran gripped by the vice of draconian sanctions and a corrupt government only facilitates cycles of despair, instability, and crackdowns.
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The violence stifled debate on Pakistan's draconian blasphemy law, which critics say is often abused and unfairly targets religious minorities.
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"I don't think the government should reward such draconian measures by giving Saudi Arabia and the UAE weapons," he added.
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Draconian nondisclosure contracts have gagged staff, although the whole system is beginning to crumble under the weight of its iniquity.
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Compounding these draconian laws is the fact that 24 million women in the region have an unmet need for contraception.
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The near-neurotic fear of increasing arrivals of irregular migrants has led governments to propose ever more draconian and unsustainable policies.
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If followed through, such a law would make it the most draconian clampdown by a European country on an online network.
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Russian-owned since 2007, it remains popular mostly with Russian-speakers and is subject to some draconian-ass censorship laws.30.
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Williamson landed in hot water recently for declaring that vaccine mandates were "Orwellian" and "draconian" while comparing them to abortion restrictions.
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After two years living under the militant group's draconian rule, they believed they would be freed in a matter of days.
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The people of this state stood up and spoke out against this draconian legislation and our lawmakers chose not to listen.
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Unions who represent Amazon workers have characterized its work conditions as "draconian" and physically demanding to the point of causing injury.
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These draconian forms of punishment are slowly dying out, but still linger in the mentalities of fundamentalists, imams, and police officers.
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In an effort to control the coronavirus, officials in the Chinese province of Zhejiang are enforcing restrictions that are almost draconian.
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Beijing imposed draconian rules on equities last year as fears of a slowing economy triggered a sell-off that threatened stability.
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In Switzerland, often thought of as a bankers' paradise, voters backed draconian curbs on executive pay in a referendum in 2013.
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To appeal to young Sudanese, especially women, Mr Bashir has offered to review draconian laws prohibiting "immoral" clothing, among other sins.
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They don't believe they need a Simon Cowell or a draconian major label five-year strategy to be a boy band.
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Singapore is notorious for draconian laws punishing everything from littering, gum chewing and jay walking to expression of same-sex orientation.
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On top of its draconian new surveillance laws, the UK government wants to enforce strict age checks for viewing online pornography.
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The campaign puts the First Step Act -- signed by President Trump last year -- to work for prisoners who received Draconian sentences.
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This will also be work in progress, with the LME keeping the option of taking a more draconian approach to evergreens.
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This has always seemed draconian, but before Obamacare, this was the only thing that motivated healthy people to buy health insurance.
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Like celebrations or illegal contact on the field, when Goodell disapproves of something, he cracks down on it in Draconian fashion.
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In contrast, it's understood that such draconian policies will find little support among large donors, who prefer more-open immigration policies.
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These are the same arguments that the Trump administration made to defend its draconian travel and refugee ban aimed at Muslims.
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The first is Democrats and (to a lesser extent) Senate Republicans, who will likely push to make this bill less draconian.
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This is far preferable to draconian proposals from conservatives to raise the retirement age, impose stingier COLAs, and means-test benefits.
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The implication is that draconian measures could eventually bring Pakistan to its knees and cause it to capitulate to U.S. demands.
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The overall policy—using cruel and draconian measures to deter asylum-seekers from traveling to the United States—would remain intact.
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The second tranche of sanctions is designed to be more draconian and has the potential to significantly squeeze the Russian economy.
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Arizona's position on the front lines has long pushed GOP politicians to respond with increasingly draconian measures to combat federal ineffectiveness.
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Broadcasters have been begging the FCC to delay the transition on the grounds that the 39-month time limit is draconian.
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The vote is a major victory for pro-choice supporters who have fought for decades against Chile's draconian ban on abortion.
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More draconian immigration policies, such as deporting all undocumented immigrants living in the U. S., also find support among some Millennials.
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The case is the largest since a major financial scam in 2008 exposed widespread embezzlement under a draconian "economic crimes" law.
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The epidemic in China appears to be slowing down after an explosion in cases followed by weeks of draconian control measures.
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The court will soon have the opportunity to do just that, as states scramble to impose increasingly draconian restrictions on abortion.
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More than 1,200 scientists, including many from India, protested their arrest, arguing that it was a draconian application of the law.
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It is very difficult for national states to stop migration, short of taking draconian measures that democratic societies will not tolerate.
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But Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced yesterday to abandon that strategy and adopt more draconian measures to "surpress" the disease.
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This approach most likely sounds novel to many, and possibly even draconian to some, but it is very familiar to me.
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The hope is that the draconian measures will help stop the spike in the thousands of positive cases and hundreds dead.
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Surface parking lots, one-story buildings and underutilized plots of land are still remarkably common because of increasingly draconian zoning restrictions.
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China must end its draconian surveillance and repression, release all those arbitrarily detained, and cease its coercion of Chinese Muslims abroad.
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He has long criticized China's family planning policies that emerged in the 1970s and took a draconian hold in the 1980s.
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Maybe someone else would have ignored the rule of law or written more draconian laws if he hadn't, but maybe not.
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Western visitors to North Korea are extremely few, and some have been arrested for seemingly minor infractions and given draconian sentences.
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As the new coronavirus continued to spread unabated within the city of Wuhan, China, government officials last week imposed draconian measures.
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Draconian measures in China have slowed the spread there, the W.H.O. noted, but the outbreak could prove hard to contain elsewhere.
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Trump pulled the United States out of the Iranian nuclear deal last year and then imposed draconian new sanctions on Iran.
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They forced PREPA into a private receivership by naming a "restructuring officer" that instituted draconian cuts to the ailing public utility.
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Just as media hysteria drove draconian responses to crack cocaine in the 1980s, there is a similar frenzy around fentanyl today.
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There is a reason why so many Republicans have spoken out in defense of DACA and against the president's draconian decision.
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The country's draconian internet laws allow the government to access user data and censor content on social media platforms at will.
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Russia has stumbled along at barely 1 percent growth, and the new sanctions, while hardly draconian, will not ease its pain.
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Justice Department prosecutors were wildly off base in their initial draconian recommendation of seven to nine years in prison for Stone.
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He has advocated taxing the rich more, but not through a draconian wealth tax, as Sanders and other candidates have proposed.
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They noted that his administration's draconian measures were built on Obama-era tactics that didn't always get the scrutiny they warranted.
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The near-neurotic fear of increasing arrivals of irregular migrants has led governments to propose ever more draconian, and unsustainable, enforcement policies.
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Liberal cities might once have been havens for LGBTQ people escaping draconian laws, but now they've turned into havens for rich people.
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The situation in Xinjiang could be a harbinger for draconian surveillance measures rolled out in the rest of the country, analysts say.
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Asia Bibi, a mother of four, in 2010 became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws.
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After fierce debate and some legal hurdles over the years, the government implemented a test of this draconian screening system in July.
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Mark Veteto, an oilman who is among New Mexico's largest political donors, argued that a fracking ban could have a draconian impact.
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While sharia is often associated in the West with draconian punishments and extremism, the documentary shows a system open to many interpretations.
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By recruiting more immigration judges, he could cut the vast backlog of cases that his draconian methods also threaten to make worse.
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The surprise was not just that the police had invoked the draconian National Security Act, which allows a year's detention without charge.
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An authoritarian government is also able to issue draconian orders—sometimes far too drastic, as the shivering children of Hebei can testify.
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Mandatory minimums, Mr Holder said, were often "draconian"; prosecutors should crack down hard on violent offenders and steer others to shorter sentences.
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The military junta that runs the country is enforcing the draconian and anachronistic lèse-majesté law with greater relish than its predecessors.
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Review-bombing isn't universally condemned; in gaming, it's been used to protest unpopular features that genuinely affect players, like draconian copy protection.
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These draconian preventative measures are the country's response to the waves of amphetamine addiction it's grappled with since the end of WWII.
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Sure, draconian water shortages and the demise of our democracy are real possibilities — not even distant ones — but you're not really suffering.
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The worst thing that could happen would be a "draconian" crackdown on remaining spaces that forces artists onto the streets, he said.
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Meanwhile, opportunistic political commentary spotlights any uncertainty, casting blame and proposing draconian moves that are far from solutions and only compound fears.
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Its federally-appointed oversight board last month approved the turnaround plan that pushes draconian cuts to debt repayment and major austerity measures.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Is the Philippines' draconian mining clampdown already affecting the flow of nickel ore to China's nickel pig iron (NPI) producers?
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You can watch a livestream replay of the latest game easily, as if the NFL's draconian intellectual property rules mean absolutely nothing.
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In Russia, draconian enforcement and a lack of harm reduction measures has led to an explosion of HIV and other communicable diseases.
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Not that I'm a fan of draconian measures, but it might be time to reconsider our current approach in the United States.
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As the prison population soars, Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya told Reuters he was looking at changes to the country's draconian drug laws.
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Yet, if provoked by these draconian policies, an outraged Pakistan may be inclined to tighten rather than ease its embrace of militants.
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Obamacare added an additional $2 trillion in new health care spending, financed by tax increases, draconian cuts to Medicare and questionable offsets.
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The reason is the draconian Patriot Act of 2001, which swiftly and effectively cleaned out shell banks from the global banking system.
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When those legislators then enact the most draconian abortion policy in the nation, there's almost nothing citizens can do to stop it.
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And while state legislatures are passing draconian abortion bans for the purpose of engaging in litigation they hope will overturn Roe v.
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There are no complaints about Trump's draconian approach to immigration, perhaps because Romney himself helped pave the way for his hardline policies.
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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Biden was one of the most vehement anti-crime crusaders in the Senate, pushing increasingly draconian punishments.
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"The costs of our current, draconian policies on marijuana are disproportionately borne by medical patients, veterans and communities of color," Gabbard wrote.
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"This is another draconian measure to actually criminalize dissent in the United States," said Scott Crow, a former Antifa organizer and author.
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While China subsidizes its expansion into the West, it enacts draconian regulations against American tech companies trying to operate within its borders.
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Republican and Democratic governors have rejected the plan, warning that its draconian cuts in Medicaid funding over time would hurt their states.
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Across the board, Congress rejected deep, draconian cuts that Trump had proposed for nondefense programs he had asked to eliminate or cut.
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Sure, we may have to wait for resolution to Dany's invasion of Westeros, Cersei's no-doubt draconian reign, or Jon's latest hairstyle.
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Jackie moved to LA a couple years ago to duck Alabama's draconian drug laws, which had caught up with him once again.
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In fact, it is because of his draconian rhetoric and occasional — although not very credible — compassion toward Dreamers that he could succeed.
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The United Kingdom became the latest major economy to adopt draconian measures on Monday when it ordered people to stay at home.
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Despite draconian fire regulations and an army of inspectors to enforce them, Russia has one of the world's worst fire safety records.
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But the C.C.P. has since subjected the entire Uighur population of some 11 million to arbitrary arrest, draconian surveillance or systemic discrimination.
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In Southeast Asia, Indonesia is not alone in employing draconian drug laws, though its routine execution of foreigners does set it apart.
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India has a history of draconian legislation when it comes to drugs and alcohol--some of which has worked against the country.
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Also, it doesn't seem to me that we're at the behest of a hegemonic and draconian government any more than America is.
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Activists who work with drug users in Russia say it's unlikely that the FSKN's dissolution will soften the country's draconian drug policies.
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Even the draconian online censorship laws haven't stopped Chinese citizens from posting criticisms of the government's delayed response to the coronavirus crisis.
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The Medicare Part D program is working well for people with H.I.V., and there is no reason to take these draconian actions.
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Under Fidel Castro, Cuba enforced one of the world's most draconian bans on private property, essentially foreclosing the possibility of this occurring.
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Most face draconian travel restrictions and are denied citizenship in a country where many Buddhists regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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It began prosecuting young adolescents as adults under a draconian law passed in 1978, in the aftermath of the Willie Bosket case.
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In addition, the committee criticized the continued use of administrative detention under draconian antiterrorism legislation and the lack of credible witness protection.
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One such bill created the Narcotics Addiction Control Commission, which preceded the draconian Rockefeller drug laws and was aimed at rehabilitating addicts.
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"The Chavistas will try to emasculate the democratic opposition, and they will have more draconian measures for the radical opposition," he said.
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This, paired with draconian cuts to public services that provide assistance to struggling families, would result in a significant increase in inequality.
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But Barr, in general, does not have a problem with draconian punishments for people who are not personal allies of the president.
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There are plenty of states in India with higher unemployment and poverty rates that have not been placed under such draconian restrictions.
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And one is told by Aunt Lydia, the implacable enforcer, who has imposed Gilead's draconian rules on the Handmaids with vengeful relish.
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Whether that would rise to the level of an impeachable offense, or merit something less draconian such as censure, is another question.
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But, in 73, President Donald Trump abandoned the deal and instead implemented draconian new sanctions against Iran, which Tehran calls economic warfare.
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"This is a big victory for Dreamers amid months of draconian and meanspirited immigration enforcement policy," said David Leopold, an immigration lawyer.
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As Attorney General, I launched sweeping reforms of our federal criminal justice system and reduced its reliance on draconian mandatory minimum sentences.
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Such Draconian measures did little to stop slave revolts in Jamaica or elsewhere, but the revolts did change the debate over slavery.
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At the moment, living under draconian regulations, which have effectively nationalized the banking industry, banks keep reporting record earnings as noted above.
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Only a draconian punishment, he and Tygart said, will protect clean athletes from other countries and force Russia to change its behavior.
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UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on April 1 described the laws as "draconian" and a setback for human rights.
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He was immediately condemned by both the left, for suggesting draconian penalties, and the right, for exposing the sham of pro-life rhetoric.
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"The White House is having serious discussions with us in the Senate to try to resolve our dilemma about draconian cuts," he said.
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On Iran, Trump pulled out of the nuclear agreement that was widely verified as working, and ramped up draconian sanctions on the Iranians.
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As sentencing and bail laws become less draconian, more people are being released; the disproportionate punishment of ethnic minorities is now widely recognised.
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But there are fears that draconian reforms could lead to instability, said Hussam Hussein, a water expert at the American University of Beirut.
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Our criminal justice system is tangled in overcrowded prison cells, draconian sentences, shameful sentencing disparities, burdensome incarceration costs and heartbroken children and families.
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The Republican mayor of El Paso, Texas, said Tuesday closing the border would "detrimental, almost draconian" to the region's economy, The Guardian reports.
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A Mississippi judge has permanently blocked the most draconian abortion law in the U.S., which would have banned the procedure after 15 weeks.
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In Argentina, draconian rate rises to 218 percent - alongside heavy currency interventions - have not prevented the peso from tumbling 20.50 percent this year.
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" – to the draconian drug penalties of today – "I'm sorry, but your cough syrup contained a banned substance, so it's a 23 game suspension.
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"It is my hope that your draconian inquisitions are not returning this committee to the dark days of 16th-century England," he said.
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Now, in the midst of the opioid crisis, drugs are once again being used to justify the continued existence of draconian sentencing policies.
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Now Verizon has followed suit with a more draconian, tiered Unlimited plan: Go Unlimited, Tiered Unlimited, Business Unlimited, and everyone is calling foul.
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The President's draconian budget calls for $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid, making it clear Republicans will attack the program from all sides.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, draconian immigration measures may be appealing to a substantial fraction of the nation's wealthiest — and most active — political contributors.
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Newsrooms in cities across the country have been decimated by draconian cuts, while fat cats load up newspapers with debt and profit handsomely.
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His Department of Justice has been geared around draconian reforms and crackdowns, as well as rolling back Obama-era protections of civil liberties.
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Rather than protest their innocence, they plead to minor crimes such as the nebulous, all-encompassing "conspiracy," just to avoid draconian prison sentences.
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For instance, many U.S. trading partners, including Canada and South Korea, impose draconian price cuts on innovative U.S. medicines — severely undervaluing U.S. innovation.
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This year, even Louisiana and South Carolina — states with otherwise draconian criminal justice policies — raised the age of their family courts to 18.
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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's decision striking down North Carolina's particularly draconian voter suppression law found that the statute was intentionally discriminatory.
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In this respect, Trump is not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of draconian immigration policies that resulted from decades of over-compromise.
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There are still outlier countries known for their "extremely harsh and draconian abortion laws," Katherine Mayall, global advocacy adviser at CRR, told Refinery29.
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Trump's "law and order" rhetoric and Sessions' support for draconian drug sentences make further federal movement on mandatory minimum sentencing tougher to envision.
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The NCAA has since used that decision to punish athletes and coaches in draconian fashion, with zero regard for basic notions of fairness.
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Immigration laws got even more draconian around the turn of the 20th century, Lombardo said, when migration to the US from Europe exploded.
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"I am disappointed that many of the reductions and eliminations proposed in the President's skinny budget are draconian, careless and counterproductive," said Rep.
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The Bangladeshi authorities have tried to restrict mobile access in the camps before; they cited "security" concerns for this latest, more draconian crackdown.
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In November, Saudi Arabia imposed what humanitarian groups described as a draconian blockade on Yemen ports, raising fears of famine in the country.
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It placed draconian restrictions on prospective immigrants, including the exclusion of the wives and children of Chinese laborers already living in the country.
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The least draconian, Paul Ryan's bill, could still cut the number of people who receive asylum in half, Cory Smith of KIND said.
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The cellphone policy at Stuyvesant is draconian; on this day it was eased, and technology showed itself, again, as both danger and salvation.
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Some alarmed public health experts have described Beijing's approach as draconian or brutal, but the W.H.O. has referred to it simply as aggressive.
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Proposed laws making platforms go beyond notice and takedown to proactively police users' speech would be even worse than Germany's draconian takedown proposals.
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Today, even with these draconian provisions on residency and public health funding, New York is the only mainland state still providing legal abortions.
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They also have not made the kinds of draconian cuts that other newspapers owners, such as the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, have.
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The tough Italian government official whom many credit with reducing arriving migrants — or accuse of introducing draconian policies — is Interior Minister Marco Minniti.
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It's a short-term, and shortsighted, approach that's difficult to resist, especially when people are afraid and the authorities are taking draconian actions.
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When Mr. Trump heard of the plan, he berated Mr. Ross and demanded that his advisers bring him a package of draconian sanctions.
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He contends that President Trump's budget, rather than being a draconian measure that cuts too many valuable programs, does not go far enough.
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Hence the draconian, authoritarian character of such regimes, which has nothing to do with socialism and everything to do with American foreign policy.
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Mr. Ortega, the president, and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are accused of running a draconian government that has cheated in elections.
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They began to impose a draconian code, forbidding residents from listening to music or smoking cigarettes and forcing them to fast and pray.
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Because these reforms are more palatable than draconian cuts, they can easily slip beneath the radar and quietly imperil Medicaid's long-term viability.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Lima-Marin was released from state custody after a judge said it would be "draconian" to keep him in prison.
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Left-behind children, and other unintended consequences of mass migration, are not unique to China, but draconian rules have made the problem worse.
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The military junta seized power from a democratically elected government in a 2014 coup and has since imposed draconian controls over civilian life.
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They would now be able to support community bank regulatory relief but oppose the draconian Dodd-Frank Act repeal passed by the House.
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" She provided cover for President Obama's draconian deportations, and said that unaccompanied minors from Central America crossing the border "should be sent back.
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The Sultan is betting that the implementation of Sharia, particularly in this draconian form, will rouse popular sentiment in a majority-Muslim country.
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The documents lie empty, with squares and rectangles that seem like draconian measures of information that insist it fit into the particular shape.
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The budget also opens the door for draconian cuts to entitlement programs — to the tune of $235 billion in cuts over 523 years.
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The budget also opens the door for draconian cuts to entitlement programs — to the tune of $203 billion in cuts over 1003 years.
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"That's really draconian," Rodney Fort, a sports economist and professor of sports management at the University of Michigan, said of the rule change.
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The thing you should know, before you attribute [this Draconian attitude] toward Japan, is that it's [in] the US occupation law from 1948.
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Meng's disappearance also puts more attention on the Xi's widening anti-corruption campaign in China, and the country's draconian detainment and judicial processes.
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They certainly revolutionized the culture, but they ultimately left us with draconian drug laws and a cultural backlash that pushed psychedelics into the underground.
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Even legal minds which weren't instantly describing it as out and out illegal were plenty critical — describing it as overly broad, vague and draconian.
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During the 1980&aposs, microorganisms genetically engineered to degrade spilled oil were developed in laboratories, but draconian EPA regulations discouraged their testing and commercialization.
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President-elect Trump touted draconian changes to our immigration system, which should gravely concern everyone who cares about our values of fairness and equality.
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But draconian clauses — including criminalizing efforts to collect water through methods as simple as transporting it from one house to another — sparked huge protests.
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On the plus side, this model's draconian commitment to accuracy means songs that have gone through a professional rigmarole sound positively lush and radiant.
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As Mr Trump's election showed, sympathy for migrants at the southern border ebbs and flows, but there is always demand for draconian border enforcement.
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But with more excitement comes more pressure: When USAG competes at a global level, they're up against countries that use notoriously draconian coaching methods.
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It comes against a background of increasingly draconian inspections of industrial plants of all shapes and sizes led by the head of the MEP.
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However the company has clearly allied itself with Trump, whose draconian policies on crime and illegal immigration seem designed to increase the prison population.
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"The outlook doesn't appear as draconian as the market has priced in," said Jack Micenko, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group in New York.
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As head of OMB, Mulvaney would be empowered to impose draconian cuts to vital services and programs that keep us safe and prevent catastrophes.
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Benefit structures are widely seen as unsustainable, but draconian cuts to pensioners could deepen the population's reliance on government subsidies and compound rampant emigration.
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We respect and applaud these women for challenging the draconian laws which exist in Northern Ireland — they say no choice, we say pro-choice!
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The Trump blueprint for future budgets, released last month, outlined draconian cuts to funds that support popular education, social welfare and economic development programs.
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The program claims to help people develop an intuitive, relaxed style of eating, and yet it consists of a set of bizarre, draconian rules.
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Iran's goals are to avoid a new round of broad-based, draconian economic sanctions and to isolate the United States from its European partners.
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He said existing sanctions on Myanmar are in many ways more draconian than those that apply to neighboring countries with worse human rights records.
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The pedagogical goals that Mead describes—training students to overcome their impulses and to conform to a strict code of behavior—may seem Draconian.
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President Sisi recently ratified a draconian law restricting the work of NGOs, essentially making it a crime to advocate for human rights and development.
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She was found in possession of 1.1 kilos (2.4 lb) of crystal methamphetamine and faced a mandatory death penalty under Malaysia's draconian drugs laws.
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In November, 2005, he voted against Draconian antiterrorism legislation, helping to bring about Blair's first defeat in the House of Commons as Prime Minister.
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Not to mention, his friends continue to advocate for anti-growth draconian environmental measures driving up the costs of televisions, food, housing and electricity.
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States are driving the change in marijuana policy because they see the damage created by draconian drug laws on communities, families and state budgets.
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Still, Cook has some suggestions for the plan that he calls "draconian," including keeping a reasonable tax on international earnings, and banning any deductions.
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Those controls can sound draconian and provocative to the American ear, trained to despise the "thought police" and to revere the freedom of expression.
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But in counterinsurgency—that already-paradoxical quest to win hearts and minds at the ends of rifle muzzles—such draconian tactics moot the strategy.
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No wall, no fine, no threat of imprisonment, no "deterrent" policy, however draconian, would ever prevent Audemio from attempting to rejoin his loved ones.
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But he has proposed draconian, unconstitutional measures to keep the nation safe, including carrying out surveillance of mosques and creating a database of Muslims.
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However, many fear that a push towards having more children will negatively affect women, who bore the brunt of the draconian one child policy.
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The E.U. erred egregiously, he writes, in making draconian austerity policies the price of Greece's rescue while letting the continent's banks off scot free.
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When Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed Biden on whether he advised Obama against enacting such draconian immigration policies, Biden distanced himself from the president.Sen.
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If there is an irony in this, it's that Ryan's economically draconian policies are arguably even more unpopular than the president's socially demagogic ones.
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His campaign promises hinted at a more draconian system that targets a specific religion, bans an entire group and imposes registration on American citizens.
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It seems entirely likely that he believes a former general with decades of experience in military policing shares his draconian approach to law enforcement.
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While advocates hoped that these figures would help shift legislators' focus towards women's health, Texas continues to pass draconian abortion laws that hurt women.
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"Across the board, the government is imposing draconian measures that limit freedom of expression," Kaye said after a one-week official mission to Turkey.
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These are the sorts of things that are generally categorized as "character concerns," and the NFL's remedies for them are draconian and preemptively punitive.
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Still, American officials grew concerned as the Islamic State made quick inroads along Libya's coast, enforcing draconian social laws and carrying out brutal executions.
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People in Xinjiang, a region of China subject to draconian security measures and tight surveillance, regularly have their phones searched by police at checkpoints.
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Their conviction and draconian 7-year sentence are a travesty of justice, and it is now up to the government to set them free.
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Compounding the administration's draconian changes to this rule is the crackdown on the refugees at our southern border, disproportionately high-poverty immigrants of color.
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"We should worry about disaster authoritarianism—a reason to implement some of the more draconian policies that Trump wanted to implement anyway," Reardon said.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also introduced some of the most draconian restrictions on foreign arrivals of any other country, cancelling swathes of visas.
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In Georgia, Alabama, Ohio, Missouri and several other states, elected officials have fixated on using draconian abortion legislation to control women and our bodies.
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The ruling Communist Party drew heavy criticism at first for its approach, which many both domestically and abroad saw as heavy-handed, even draconian.
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The country seems to have brought its outbreak under control without implementing draconian measures like locking down major cities or closing schools and restaurants.
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Markets in the region plummeted on Monday on recession fears as more countries around the world adopted draconian measures to contain the spreading coronavirus.
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This week Italy imposed the most draconian measures outside of China — restricting movement and closing most businesses — to slow the spread of the virus.
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This week Italy imposed the most draconian measures outside of China — restricting movement and closing most businesses — to slow the spread of the virus.
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Walker's twisted, draconian pictures are a cypher for the present moment inasmuch as they skeptically obscure the possibility of alternative futures for our nation.
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The envoy, Randy Berry, has traveled to many countries urging for more humane treatment of gays, lesbians and others affected by often draconian laws.
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The Saudi Foreign Ministry announced that it welcomed the Trump administration pulling out of the deal and the reimposition of draconian sanctions on Iran.
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The draconian cut would cause enormous disruptions, gutting aid and development programs that some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people depend upon.
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She wondered if they had been given "fair notice" of the potentially "draconian" consequence that they wouldn't be able to serve in the military.
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However, by passing a bill so draconian as to impact every demographic group across the nation, they give a vulnerable Democratic Party new life.
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It favours draconian anti-corruption laws, boosting internet connectivity and slashing the cost of politics by, among other things, reducing the size of parliament.
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"The text of Vietnam's Law on Cyber Security included some of the most draconian data localization provisions seen anywhere in the world," Botting said.
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The four former Google engineers published a blog post last month accusing the company of "draconian, pernicious, and unlawful conduct" meant to discourage unionization.
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Draconian restrictions mean registrants face years in prison if they to do something as simple as borrow a car without immediately notifying the police.
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It's easier to find out about Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests in just about any country other than China thanks to their draconian censorship.
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The picture gets even worse when you consider the draconian cuts proposed in the president's Fiscal Year 2019 budget request, also released on Monday.
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It may reduce the draconian amateurism rules that limit an N.C.A.A. athlete's ability to benefit from his or her name, number, likeness and skill.
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Some referred to the measure as draconian and a thinly veiled attempt by coaches — particularly in men's basketball — to reassert control of their players.
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The choice is between facilitating those changes to unlock their huge economic potential or taking us backward by blocking those changes with draconian policies.
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Also, there's no evident way to pay for the bill, which means it will either swell the deficit or compensate with draconian Medicaid cuts.
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Advocates of criminal-justice reform worry that he will fill up prisons and build new ones, justifying draconian punishments with massaged statistics and fallacious reasoning.
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Shawbard's emissary Ra-Sharir (Necar Zadegan) is the draconian master manipulator who acts as his lieutenant (the fanatical similarity to Sheela is impossible to miss).
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The US is failing to take a stand Draconian media controls and repression in authoritarian countries like Iran, China and North Korea are well known.
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The gradual defeat of the militant group's "caliphate" has rescued millions of people from draconian laws, harsh punishments and, for minorities, slaughter or sexual slavery.
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Experts do not expect such a draconian penalty in the Tesla case, especially, according to Crimmins, because Musk is so integral to the company's prospects.
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"Please note that we are not at all intending to impose draconian measures on any models," a member of the Rose & Willard team told Mashable.
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The "amazing" civil rights heroes Trump mentioned during his "little breakfast" would have unequivocally protested his White House's draconian views on racial justice, especially King.
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During the election season, progressives have been very active at Google, including (sadly I think) draconian responses to anyone who disagreed with their core ideas.
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Over the weekend, big tech companies, venture capitalists, and even CEOs like Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick who are advising Trump denounced the draconian policy.
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While some of North Carolina's more draconian voting restrictions were struck down just before the election, a purge of early voting sites remained in place.
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Military clients—"not quite as draconian as one might think; it's primarily submarine rescue," he quipped—make up about 210 per cent of the business.
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He singled out Cruz for what he called "draconian" proposals on immigration, saying he's faced queries from world leaders about the state of U.S. politics.
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"This legislation gives new meaning to the term 'draconian,' " said Jessica Grennan, the Montana-based National Director of Political Affairs and Advocacy for Compassion & Choices.
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Activists say such changes to the law would make it vulnerable to abuse, like the country's draconian anti-pornography laws, to target the LGBT community.
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"Today, the United States will cease all implementation of the nonbinding [agreements]," Trump said, adding that they imposed a "draconian" burden on the United States.
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The country has had draconian anti-pollution measures since 22015, when it introduced a set of prohibitions called the national action plan on air pollution.
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A surprising majority opinion upheld the University of Texas's affirmative action program, and a somewhat less surprising majority opinion struck down Texas's draconian abortion statute.
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Sadly, it is unlikely their bad behavior will in any fashion be corrected by even the most draconian turns of the diplomatic or economic screws.
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" Earlier this year, The Writer's Guild of America released a statement urging Governor Kemp to veto the bill, calling it "a draconian anti-choice measure.
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If that's a little draconian for your taste, you can also just hide your kids' favorite apps on their devices without locking them out entirely.
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On Thursday Russia's embassy to the United States called the new sanctions draconian and said the allegations of using the nerve agent were far-fetched.
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Some proposals under discussion, such as general across-the-board tax cuts that lead to deficit spending, could result in draconian cuts in entitlement programs.
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"Acting in a draconian and unfair manner, the ATO froze Plutus' bank accounts on 27 April without prior warning or any consultation," the company said.
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There will definitely be huge upper-class tax cuts, fire sales of federal land, draconian cuts to discretionary spending, and other upward distributions of wealth.
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The Freedom Caucus in the House and Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee in the Senate all want a more draconian, market-oriented bill.
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On one of them, Turkey's draconian anti-terrorism laws, it is hard to see Mr Erdogan reversing course to a degree that will satisfy MEPs.
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Some health policy experts and Wall Street analysts said the report was more draconian than expected, with the uninsured rate declining more quickly than foreseen.
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Creditor enthusiasm for the changes turned to shell-shock, however, when the board in January began pushing debt cuts even more draconian than Garcia Padilla's.
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Sim is a strident opponent of the often draconian vagaries of copyright law, which are supported by major media companies zealously clinging to popular characters.
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Criticism of Thailand's monarchy is outlawed by draconian lese majeste laws that can bring jail sentences of up to 15 years for each perceived insult.
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During his decades in power, Mahathir ruled as a strongman leader and frequently used the draconian Internal Security Act to go after critics and enemies.
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Both African countries have driven through draconian changes to their mineral tax regimes, overcoming the entrenched opposition of some of the world's biggest mining houses.
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However, since Magufuli was elected in 2015, his administration has implemented draconian curbs including banning some newspapers, restricting opposition rallies and detaining dozens of activists.
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When his draconian tactics have failed, Lloyd simply ordered the young woman in question to be held hostage to stop her from getting an abortion.
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They were willing to take draconian steps to achieve their goals, even threatening to send the nation into default over spending disputes with the administration.
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Even if that were true, it'd be a bad look for the organization, making the Academy look stuffy, draconian, and rules-obsessed rather than celebratory.
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Today Mr. Ryan, Mr. Boehner's replacement, can't get his budget, filled with draconian cuts, past Tea Partiers who condemn him as a free-spending sellout.
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It cuts Medicaid by imposing arbitrary, draconian caps on care and forces burdensome work requirements on Americans who need health care, not more red tape.
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Each time a draconian plan pops up, advocates for healthcare and seniors - and grassroots opponents - grab their mallets and pound them back into their holes.
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The Department of Homeland Security has used alternatives to detention that have demonstrated positive results and have been more cost-effective than draconian detention policies.
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Perhaps they will ask about prison reform, forcing Harris to keep her hand down and defend the draconian criminal justice policies she oversaw in California.
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A draconian policy, a sky-high wall or any other "solution" that does not account for the roots of the problem will not solve it.
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This draconian anti-choice law would discourage people in our industry from working in Georgia and could harm the state's vibrant film and television industry.
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Thus he has relied on his clemency initiative, which began in 2014, to accomplish his goal of shortening sentences he and others view as draconian.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that these draconian measures would have resulted in 2628 million Americans losing health coverage over the next ten years.
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Hungarian humanitarian groups that help asylum seekers are standing in defiance of new draconian laws imposed by Viktor Orban's authoritarian government that criminalize their work.
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First off, there are some countries where graffiti has been completely eradicated from public spaces through strict policies, draconian punishments, or across-the-board surveillance.
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WWE briefly released her due to the charges, a draconian move by a promotion which historically tends to fudge its own rules around legal issues.
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"Uber has the most draconian stock-transfer rules in Silicon Valley," says Barrett Cohn, founder and managing director of Scenic Advisement, which arranges such sales.
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In places like Oklahoma, where it's still super illegal, draconian enforcement of marijuana prohibition is regarded by most of America as an ass-backward idea.
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The scholars also worked carefully to try to improve the lot of a group that complained of widespread discrimination and draconian restrictions on religious activity.
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And it has done so without China's draconian restrictions on speech and movement, or economically damaging lockdowns like those in Europe and the United States.
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"The rapid spread [of the coronavirus] has triggered unprecedented draconian containment measures," Stephen Innes, global chief markets strategist at AxiCorp, wrote in a research note.
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This has led to a rapidly tightening lockdown in countries around the world, which has surprised Mann in how swift and draconian it has been.
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The Chinese approach has involved censorship, draconian restrictions on individual movement, detention of whistleblowers and citizen journalists, and the rapid expansion of a technological panopticon.
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This week, the Republican senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina plan to introduce yet another draconian bill to end Obamacare.
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Its reputation as a center of Chinese and global manufacturing and commerce gave authorities little choice but to impose draconian restrictions on movement, residents said.
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Still, as Recode previously reported, some tech employees find tech companies halting work travel broadly between East Asia and the US to be overly draconian.
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He has imposed draconian restrictions on the media and NGOs, and there is ample evidence of his packing the courts, trampling the rule of law.
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Martin Heinrich complained to Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger about the press restrictions in the Capitol and urged for the "draconian restrictions" to be changed.
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And yet, despite North Korea's draconian system of government, some South Koreans still have a deep yearning for connection with their neighbors to the North.
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In China, however, the spread of the disease is steadily slowing, a sign the country's draconian containment measures for the novel coronavirus may have worked.
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Groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have argued that terminating consumer access to an essential utility for violating copyright is an absurd and draconian overreaction.
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Often through creative accounting schemes, critics put forth cost estimates that would rule out the required modernization and compel draconian cuts in U.S. conventional forces.
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Some health policy experts and Wall Street analysts said the report was more draconian than expected, with the uninsured rate rising more quickly than foreseen.
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Mr. Trump's first big initiative was a draconian immigration ban, now mired in court challenges, that's caused problems for businesses from Silicon Valley to Wisconsin.
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VANCE WEAVER, NEW YORK To the Editor: It is quite amazing that many Republicans will not vote for Trumpcare because it is not draconian enough!
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And Disney's draconian demands for movie theaters who want the privilege of running The Last Jedi probably isn't hurting, but it can't be helping, either.
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But it is imposing draconian penalties on people who sell to minors: it is a federal crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
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Creating budget proposals which include draconian cuts to the United States' diplomatic engine is a bad place to start and it won't serve U.S. interests.
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Outside court afterward, Okoumou thanked the U.S. Park Police for their courtesy and professionalism, but said the government's "draconian policy" on immigration had to end.
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But should Democrats regain control of the White House and Congress, "they will pass draconian laws that dramatically impact our Second Amendment rights," he said.
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Workers claim that the company is trying to impose draconian benefit cuts and looking to move workers out of state for months at a time.
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They've been derided as a "deep state," slurred as "Obama holdovers," threatened with draconian budget cuts and told President Donald Trump doesn't even need them.
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"The need to continually seek relief from the draconian jail conditions will distract Mr. Guzman and his lawyers from defending against the charges," she said.
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Once a sailor is promoted to the E-2000 paygrade, that of a third-class petty officer, he or she cannot receive the draconian punishment.
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It won't force the US and Uruguay to change their systems, nor will it compel countries like Russia and China to soften their draconian policies.
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With the election of Donald Trump and his nomination of Jeff Sessions as attorney general, we can only expect these policies to become more draconian.
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He was sentenced under the state's draconian "650 Lifer" law, which mandated life in prison for anyone caught with more than 650 grams of cocaine.
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He was sentenced under the state's draconian "21987 Lifer" law, which mandated life in prison for anyone caught with more than 22005 grams of cocaine.
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It also freed its former subjects from summary executions and draconian punishment for breaking its strict laws or, for some minorities, sexual slavery and slaughter.
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"I do think that what's complicated for Democrats is that, while the majority of the country is probably centrist on immigration, if given the choice between what they feel is a very progressive, almost non-rule-of-law version of immigration and a very draconian view of immigration, they will choose the draconian view because they at least want some order in the system," Fresco said.
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In doing so, the justices are signaling that the recent draconian abortion laws will not succeed in overturning settled law on a woman's right to abortion.
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In his late twenties, Vucic was Serbia's feared information minister behind draconian legislation designed to muzzle criticism of the government during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
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Tensions have spiked further since Trump acted last month to force Iran's oil customers to slash their imports to zero or face draconian U.S. financial sanctions.
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But China's own copper supply chain is facing a significant threat this year in the form of a potentially draconian crackdown on imports of copper scrap.
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"The Assad regime's draconian and heavy-handed approach to fighting this insurgency has breathed new life into al Qaeda in Syria in many ways," said Clarke.
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On the Republican side, there is much more pessimism, as the candidates in debates generally describe a grim world that requires desperate — and sometimes draconian — policies.
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But when Duggan shared with her grief-stricken neighbors a secret Facebook page dedicated to fighting the new administration's draconian policies, Bandelli became an immediate partner.
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Authoritarianism will make a comebackAs threats to national security increase, and as these threats expand in severity, governments will find it necessary to enact draconian measures.
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Michigan Republican lawmakers attempted to enact legislation that could have imposed draconian penalties on picketing workers and made it easier to permanently replace lawfully striking employees.
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China imposed draconian restrictions on stock index trading during the stock market crash in the summer of 2015, sharply raising margin requirements and tightening position limits.
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But as the drug war struggles to halt drug use and trafficking, the heavy-handed policies — which many describe as draconian — have been called into question.
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Pubs and bars don't really need the draconian measures that Fabric are having to implement because there's still is a semblance of tradition attached to them.
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The Redditor claimed he reached out to Microsoft and scored his little brother a refund, a heroic feat in these days of draconian digital return policies.
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But the flipside of the UAE's astonishing openness to foreign workers is a draconian regime that restricts their rights and turns a blind eye to abuses.
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IAS president Linda-Gail Bekker spoke out at the group's conference in Paris against Trump's "draconian" research cuts, predicting they would result in "catastrophe," Newsweek reported.
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Miller is, after all, the architect behind the Trump administration's most draconian border and immigration policies, as well as some of its harshest anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Despite widespread opposition, the constant in every iteration of the House and Senate healthcare bills has been draconian cuts to Medicaid that would cripple the program.
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That lifeline is under attack in the form of Draconian cuts proposed by both the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the current administration's proposed budget.
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These draconian cuts would not only disproportionately affect the poor, they would specifically make it harder for black and Hispanic Americans to climb the economic ladder.
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The House has already rejected many of the president's draconian budget cuts that would put our nation's vaunted but increasingly challenged science enterprise at great risk.
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Instead of enacting more draconian sentences, we must invest in white-collar law enforcement the same way we invest in other measures to protect public safety.
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For the past seven months, I have volunteered with Immigrant Families Together, an organization helping to reunite families separated under this administration's draconian zero-tolerance policy.
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Chinese officials have held out the prospects of an equally draconian retaliation, with tariffs on American aircraft, soybean oil, smoked beef, coffee, flour and other products.
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Only recently has Biden begun to step back from parts of the law, like the draconian three-strikes rule and the racist crack-cocaine sentencing disparity.
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As draconian as these rules sound, the lender and the co-op want to protect themselves should your finances suddenly take a turn for the worse.
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But if it fails to restore confidence or requires draconian austerity measures, Macri's appeal to the IMF could jeopardize his ability to win a second term.
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In the weeks following the early spread of the virus, the government enacted draconian quarantine measures and strict travel restrictions affecting hundreds of millions of citizens.
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Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Britons to behave more responsibly or face more draconian restrictions, after people flocked to parks to enjoy a sunny weekend.
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They issued a draconian list of demands, including the closing of Al Jazeera and a Turkish military facility, and financial reparations for years of supposed wrongs.
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The administration has gone after those opposing its draconian immigration policies too, using social media to track activists from the southern border to New York City.
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Since three-quarters of detainees are held in privately operated facilities, critics often contend the draconian quorum has more to do with profit than national security.
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"They are trying to manufacture crises to institute draconian policies," says Ur Jaddou, who was the chief lawyer at U.S.C.I.S. for almost three years under Obama.
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They were smoking cigarettes — not on domestic flights under six hours, thanks to a then-recently-passed draconian law prohibiting this, but just about everywhere else.
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Right now Boris Johnson's government is focused on delaying the spread of the virus and is retaining some of the more draconian measures for later use.
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Beyond Trump's permeable coronavirus wall, the nature of American democracy ensures he would struggle to implement some of the draconian internal options available to China's rulers.
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Investors, however, are worried that many have used up their ammunition and more draconian restrictions on personal movement are necessary to contain the global coronavirus outbreak.
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The toll from the virus and draconian measures such as stay-at-home orders to stop it from spreading are already reverberating throughout the U.S. economy.
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in the New York area, other states are adopting increasingly draconian measures to stem the spread of the disease.
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In a bid to please Beijing, in 2002 he attempted to pass draconian legislation that would have curtailed freedom of speech and association, among other things.
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It's also stunning when you consider the draconian measures China has taken to control the virus, including an unprecedented quarantine of more than 50 million people.
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What the left misses is that as Mr. Trump pursues his draconian efforts to stem the tide, many Americans think he is fighting the good fight.
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However, since Magufuli was elected in 2015, his administration has implemented draconian curbs including banning some newspapers, restricting opposition rallies, and detaining dozens of their members.
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Barclays stepped up to discuss its concerns when Ugandan legislators sought the death penalty for homosexual acts; the enacted law, while still draconian, omitted that punishment.
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In a dispute captivating a country of workaholics, Mitoshi Matsumoto says the company is threatening to rescind his franchise after he complained about draconian work hours.
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" He called for the immediate release of all those "arbitrarily detained" and for Beijing to end the "draconian policies that have terrorized its citizens in Xinjiang.
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Correction: An earlier version of this post stated that Williamson called mandatory vaccines "draconian" and "Orwellian" during a debate; she said it at a campaign rally.
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The response was harsh policing and the Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York, which established draconian mandatory minimum sentences that were then adopted across the country.
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And he reminded her of the President's attempts to impose draconian cuts on public housing, already plagued at many sites with leaks, busted heating and vermin.
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It could also help to avoid draconian cuts to social programs that are now being proposed to pay for the cut in corporate tax rates. Sen.
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" The post argues that the Conservative party uses each terrorist attack to "prop up their desire to impose even more draconian measures onto our online lives.
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These sanctions include being forced to wear (and pay for) GPS monitoring and being banned from parks, and draconian residency restrictions that sometimes lead to homelessness.
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"This reinforces how the Federal Reserve was less draconian in how it reacted to the results," said Cowen Washington Research Group's Jaret Seiberg in a note.
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Though Russia and the Gulf states are at loggerheads in Syria, one diplomat noted that they all seemed to find common ground on draconian drug laws.
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But activists say Suu Kyi's government has failed to use its parliamentary majority to amend draconian laws or even express opposition to the jailing of dissidents.
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He called it financially "draconian", cited a puffed-up study on potential costs to the economy, and said he would seek a better deal for America.
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Last week's announcement by the central bank was an attempt to roll back some of the draconian restrictions it imposed in 2016 to stem a currency rout.
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Approving such a measure, Mr. Christie said, would put the state on a "road to ruin," requiring either drastic tax increases or draconian cuts to public services.
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Russia's draconian law on the "sovereignty of the internet", currently before parliament, is copied from China, and it is hoping to use Chinese technology to implement it.
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There's no way anything like this would gain any sort of foothold in today's climate, as it has zero redeeming qualities beyond its draconian parental control setup.
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He claimed that the agreement would impose "draconian financial and economic burdens," costing America $3 trillion in domestic economic activity and 6.5 million industrial and manufacturing jobs.
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Haney has toured maximum-security prisons in roughly two dozen states and writes that the unit is "one of the harshest and most draconian" he has seen.
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So why is Ohio suddenly -- literally suddenly, as in, shoehorned at the last minute into an unrelated bill -- passing a flagrantly unconstitutional and unbelievably draconian abortion ban?
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The Australian Government isn't handling the crisis particularly well either, accusing the 600 men inside Manus of trying to "force a change" to Australia's draconian immigration policy.
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His next-door neighbor Ernesto Gonzalez (Nicholas Gonzalez) laughs off Bud's casual racism, but tensions are about to rise as Mexifornia considers a draconian anti-immigration bill.
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Texas has been at the crux of the abortion war since a draconian 000 law, later found unconstitutional, shuttered more than two dozen clinics across the state.
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Even if the same security concerns are here, where 5G networks are concerned, being deemed "manageable" — rather than grounds for a similarly draconian approach to technology procurement.
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America's moral shortcomings under Mr Trump, including his attempted Muslim ban, slashing of the refugee programme and draconian border policy, were the promises of his election campaign.
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A day later he was rearrested under the draconian National Security Act, intended for terrorist cases, under which he may spend a year in detention without charge.
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"Until recently, authorities denied the existence of these draconian camps, and now they have cloaked their repression in legalese," USCIRF chair Tenzin Dorjee, said in a statement.
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Before Stonewall was a blip on the horizon, queerness was a DSM-classified mental disease, and those who had it were subject to draconian government witch hunts.
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Kim also says she's in regular touch with Jared Kushner, who she says is "passionate" about prison reform ... especially in drug cases where the sentences are draconian.
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Then in his late 20s, Vucic was Serbia's feared information minister behind draconian legislation designed to muzzle criticism of the government during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
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While that's not an entirely unreasonable view, football takes an absurdly draconian attitude to this sort of thing, even when the intent is clearly not to harm.
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But what if draconian Obama-era immigration policies cause Latinos, the fastest-growing part of the electorate, to tune out the Democrats as well as the Republicans?
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Yes, Johnson definitely opposes Sanders' attempts to suppress free political speech with more campaign finance regulation, including a draconian Constitutional Amendment that would trash the First Amendment.
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The Minsk accords, coupled with Western threats of far more draconian sanctions and stepped-up military assistance to NATO allies, may well have stifled Russia's imperial ambitions.
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After emerging from their secret meetings, McConnell is giving Republicans a stark choice -- vote for the draconian changes passed by the House or get nothing at all.
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There were signs that moderates would have balked, unwilling to sign their names to something that would likely die in the Senate anyway for being insanely draconian.
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"For too long, draconian budget cuts to the military have crippled readiness and put the lives of our service members in danger," McCain said in a statement.
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We have heard proposals to create a religious test for immigration, to target neighborhoods for surveillance, impose draconian tariffs which would crush trade and destroy American jobs.
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Other countries see little value in rules that enshrine China's draconian approach to data, but also know the value of having a country of China's size involved.
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If Congress keeps on kicking the can down the road, some Congress decades hence will have to impose draconian tax increases and entitlement cuts on our children.
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Workers said the company wanted to impose draconian cuts on their benefits and make it easy to send them out of state for months at a time.
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" Democrats, like Booker, argue that the legislation prevents minorities and the poor from being "disproportionally affected" by what Leahy described as "ineffective and draconian mandatory minimum sentences.
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Public safety depends on trust between law enforcement and those they bravely serve; yet, again and again, President Trump's draconian policies only serve to undercut that trust.
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However, it is far from certain that the kind of draconian law introduced in Alabama, Georgia and other states will be the one that brings it down.
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This week on Capitol Hill, lawmakers met to discuss a bill that would impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences on even minor crimes involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
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Some European politicians have called for a freezing of Turkey's EU membership talks, while a senior U.N. official on Friday described the measures as "draconian" and "unjustified".
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But according to a lawyer from the National Women's Law Center (NWLC), even if Governor Fallin approves the draconian legislation, it's unlikely that it could be enforced.
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America demands all sorts of conditions in trade deals: requiring countries to pry open markets, use draconian intellectual property regimes, or give favorable treatment for US corporations.
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Draconian though it may seem, other nations -- including the US -- hinted that they would not rule out similar moves as their responses move from containment to mitigation.
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His upbeat public rhetoric is also starkly at odds with increasingly dire warnings from inside his own administration about draconian steps that may need to be taken.
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Democrats see some hope in Mr. Trump's seeming lack of commitment to his own draconian edict — last week, "Nancy" persuaded him to tweet reassurance to those affected.
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Mr. Smith, in an email, did not condone dating a source, but he expressed a less draconian view about reporters who date within the industry they cover.
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In addressing her supporters after her court appearance, Ms. Okoumou called the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy "draconian," and said, "No child belongs in a cage."
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"It's imperative for Italy to slow down transmission, and this requires strict application by citizens and business of the draconian measures identified by the government," she said.
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Investors, however, are worried that many have used up their ammunition and that more draconian restrictions on personal movement are necessary to contain the global coronavirus outbreak.
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But the government says these more draconian takedown measures will be used as a matter of second resort and that correction notices will be the primary response.
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By the time we get there, we'll have one or two or three Democratic contenders who have dramatic but not draconian plans to make America humane again.
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Mr. Bolsonaro has exalted the country's military dictatorship and has endorsed a draconian approach to restoring security, which critics say amounts to an endorsement of extrajudicial killings.
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Looking under the hood, however, reveals that the suggested changes may not be quite as large or as draconian to beneficiaries as Mr. Sanders's cited figures suggest.
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It is also the clearest sign yet of the financial damage coronavirus and the draconian measures governments are taking to stop it are having on U.S. businesses.
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It is also the clearest sign yet of the financial damage coronavirus and the draconian measures governments are taking to stop it are having on American businesses.
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The decision was based on China's strict, "draconian" control over its news, and the propensity for the country to spread propaganda, State Department officials said to Reuters.
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The government on Wednesday ordered all stores, with the exception of pharmacies and food markets, to close in a draconian effort to limit transmission of the infection.
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Markets in the region plummeted on recession fears on Monday as more countries around the world adopted draconian measures over the weekend to contain the spreading coronavirus.
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Mr. Xi and his regional functionaries went further, adopting methods reminiscent of Mao's draconian rule — mass rallies, public confessions and "work teams" assigned to ferret out dissent.
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East German factories often were overstaffed and inefficient, and survived the transition to a market economy only by making draconian job cuts — if they survived at all.
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Often accompanied by their children, anti-vax parents have called the bill discriminatory and draconian, and compared it to what's been done by Nazi or communist regimes.
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The decree aims to soften the blow to an economy virtually halted by the draconian measures put in place last week to try to stem the contagion.
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The first involves the rights of congregations to declare themselves sanctuary spaces to protect those most vulnerable to draconian immigration policies currently mandated by the White House.
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But, these efforts to make government more efficient could be nullified should the draconian cuts to foreign assistance proposed by the White House this May be enacted.
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The best current estimates are that, absent draconian measures like China's, the virus will infect 22019-22020% of the world's adults over the next year or so.
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The attacks came days after the Trump administration put in place draconian new economic sanctions, which prohibited the five largest buyers of Iranian oil from future imports.
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Even as the outbreak appears to keep escalating, we believe the rapid — sometimes necessarily draconian — response of governments and health authorities has made a dent in transmission.
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Social media censorship is rampant — Facebook recently faced a countrywide ban because of content deemed to violate Thailand's draconian laws of "lèse majesté" (insults to the monarchy).
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Given the delicate negotiations in which the dying need to engage, do intensive care physicians with their draconian interventions act like proverbial bulls in a china shop?
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It explains why, even with draconian tariffs on Chinese imports, the U.S. goods trade deficit continues to climb, setting a new record of $2900 billion in 220006.
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The Trump administration has said, while presenting no evidence, that its draconian response to the crisis is justified by the threat refugees pose in the United States.
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Stephen M. Zeitlin, Mr. Findlay's lawyer, said the bail of $750,000 that was imposed on his client was "draconian" given that Mr. Findlay had no criminal record.
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"This is about basic rights of individual expression, and instilling fear of such draconian punishment based on ambiguous definitions, will retard our society," he wrote on Instagram.
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In 2013, he nearly torpedoed a $50.7 billion relief bill in the wake of Hurricane Sandy by pressing for draconian spending cuts to offset the emergency funds.
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"For too long, draconian budget cuts to the military have crippled readiness and put the lives of our service members in danger," McCain said in a statement.
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Will his choices give prosecutors more discretion to charge an ever greater number of citizens under an expanding array of criminal laws and seek increasingly draconian sentences?
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It's important to note that the draconian punishments that will be imposed on the citizens of Brunei have faced criticism from modern Islamic scholars for some time.
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We have proudly stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the hard working women and men at the Agency to defend against draconian budget cuts proposed by the administration.
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Critics painted the changes and reports of a social media ban as draconian and were quick to raise alarms about the Trump administration cracking down on information.
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While sex-related businesses like Skirt Club have long faced draconian restrictions from banks, we're living in a time when their position is more precarious than ever.
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The Trump administration earlier this year produced a budget proposal that included draconian cuts to agencies that it said would yield a small surplus after 10 years.
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The Chinese authorities, invoking what they called the threat of terrorism, have also carried out a draconian crackdown on Muslims that has targeted religious practice and customs.
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But they've been rare since Sisi's government passed a draconian anti-protest law making it illegal for more than 10 people to gather without Interior Ministry permission.
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It has been on the books since 1914, just after the outbreak of World War I, and is modeled on Britain's draconian Official Secrets Act of 1911.
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It tunes in to business evidence on a disastrous Brexit no deal, but tunes out from the economic damage of draconian blocks on access to vital overseas workers.
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Recent films like ZPG and Soylent Green (based on an earlier novel by Harry Harrison) depicted crowded futures sustained by cannibalism, suicide parlors, and draconian birth-control mandates.
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The number one app I use on my phone is Audible, but Apple's draconian app policies mean I can't actually purchase new books from within the Audible app.
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When asked for comment about the draconian new rules, a spokesperson for American Airlines simply sent us back a statement regurgitating the language of the company's press release.
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At the time, Microsoft said it wanted to push users towards a digital-only games marketplace but it backed away from the draconian DRM after backlash from fans.
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He would be in much stronger position to move forward quickly with the rest of his agenda, including his draconian budget that would leave most domestic programs reeling.
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The dogs are said to be beaten, burned, boiled or skinned alive – under a draconian, superstitious guise that the fear and torture improves the taste of the meat.
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Democratic presidential candidates have been quick to make the argument that the draconian abortion laws working their way through state legislatures have endangered the landmark 1973 Roe v.
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Its draconian provisions include prison terms of up to 14 years for those who spread "propaganda" about the war in 1971 in which Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan.
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In 2016, LGBTQ voters and our allies helped oust former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory after he signed into law a draconian anti-LGBTQ bill known as HB2.
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And, that way is by separating the nearly indescribably awful politics of Gilead from our own world by blaming the draconian republic on one specific, world-changing catastrophe.
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Following a landslide victory for the Repeal campaign in Ireland's historic referendum last week, pressure is mounting on other countries with similarly draconian laws to legalize abortion too.
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Its passage is uncertain, however, and the opposition New Patriotic Party will likely vote against it on the grounds that it imposes draconian limits on the central bank.
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Honduras' draconian abortion laws will remain in place for the foreseeable future after feminist groups failed to convince lawmakers to soften the country's complete ban on abortion Thursday.
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In July, Apple removed VPNs from its Chinese app store and announced plans to build a data center in Guizhou to comply with China's new draconian cybersecurity laws.
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While we sympathize with the publishers' predicament and value the economic construct that supports journalism, forcing the consumers' hand with draconian measures is not the way to go.
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It's a sign that American Airlines is relaxing some of its more draconian rules in a bid to make its basic economy tickets more competitive with other carriers.
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Now, of course, Trump has lined up behind a Senate health care bill that features draconian cuts to Medicaid: Kasich says he thinks the cuts go too far.
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Shawe maintains that TransPerfect is growing rapidly and remains profitable and Bouchard should have adopted less draconian steps rather than ordering him to sell his 49 percent stake.
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We're less than 10 days into 2019 and already Vietnam is aiming threats at Facebook for violating its draconian cybersecurity law, which came into force on January 1.
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Aside from his core issues—a draconian immigration policy and mercantilist trade policy—Trump has already been a chameleon, saying whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear.
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We already live in the Orwellian future, where our big brother monitoring and military technology is far more extreme, although slightly less draconian than the predictions in 1984.
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Battling for survival, the company idled 20173 percent of its drilling rigs and its executives did not want to go through such "draconian cuts" ever again, he said.
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In fact, the platform, which among other things seeks to repudiate the right of gays to marry, is considered by many draconian and hostile to the LGBT community.
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Just as in the past, Republicans won't actually be passing draconian laws against the interests of these communities and will expose liberals' fear-mongering for what it is.
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S. producers of cells and modules cannot come close to satisfying U.S. demand, and the draconian remedies the petitioners propose would cripple the U.S. market and U.S. demand.
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The proposed draconian cuts to Medicaid threaten to end coverage for this population, a group of dedicated Americans who have sacrificed so much for our Nation's greater good.
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They hoped that Raqqa residents, having endured the Draconian rule of ISIS , would be open to the diametrically contrary values championed by Öcalan, from secularism to gender equality.
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He proposed draconian cuts to America's diplomacy budget, with Tillerson himself pushing radical cutbacks that triggered an exodus of experienced public servants and profound demoralization in the department.
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It released a statement calling the new rules "draconian" and noted that the new policy would leave only three companies able to function: Western Union, MoneyGram and Ria.
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New Delhi (CNN Business)Carlos Ghosn's wife has slammed the Japanese legal system as "draconian" in a letter that says her husband has been "callously and needlessly" detained.
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Despite the fact that research shows sin taxes don't work, lawmakers in Shaheen's own state of New Hampshire are proposing draconian taxes on e-cigarettes and vaping devices.
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Less than two months after the Nazi seizure of power, even people with pro-regime leanings felt disquieted about the draconian measures instituted since the end of January.
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To justify his draconian approach, he falsely told the American people that he and Trump stopped a crime wave and warned that it would return without his policies.
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Mr. Hodsoll successfully lobbied against such draconian measures; the president, though intent on cutting the federal budget considerably, was not wholeheartedly behind the Stockman plan for the endowment.
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The Trump administration not only reinstated this draconian policy, it expanded the Global Gag Rule to all of global health, impacting 15 times more funding than ever before.
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Editorial President Obama last week commuted the prison terms of 214 federal inmates who were sent to prison under draconian, '80s-era laws that have since been revised.
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If Senate Republicans can reform Medicaid and go further in unraveling ObamaCare's draconian regulations, the legislation would be a good step toward undoing the damage caused by ObamaCare.
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Now that he is homeless, his chances of successfully complying with our draconian registration laws are slim, and his risk of arrest for failure to register is high.
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Terrorist attacks carried out by a handful of extremist Muslims will be politicized, by Trump and others, to incite fear among voters and impel discriminatory and draconian policies.
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In Vietnam, a draconian cybersecurity law went into operation on January 1 while Thailand passed a controversial law in February granting a wide scope of powers to authorities.
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If you're American and wondering why this affects you, keep in mind that huge swaths of the internet will bend to the most draconian version of this law.
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However, like many prosecutors across the country who get credit for changing the game while continuing draconian practices, Mr. Vance simply isn't the reformer he paints himself as.
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No...we're basically living under "tightened restrictions" that are not quite as draconian as a shelter-in-place but seem to have more or less the same effect.
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But the draconian restrictions have exacted a deep toll on the millions of Chinese forced into lockdown, not to mention China's economy, Ben Westcott and Shanshan Wang write.
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SYDNEY, March 22 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday that states and territories will consider draconian measures to enforce social distancing to combat the coronavirus.
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"Draconian restrictions put in place will result in economic activity slowing and the unemployment rate rising sharply in the coming months," Capital Economics analysts said in a note.
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It's easy to feel outrage about draconian laws that punish nonviolent drug offenders, and about racial bias, each of which Alexander catalogs in a riveting and persuasive manner.
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Uighurs had grown accustomed to living under an intrusive state, but measures became draconian after the arrival in late 2016 of a new regional party chief from Tibet.
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Mr. Gruevski's choice of Hungary was not without irony: Under Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the country has instituted draconian measures to keep out refugees fleeing war and starvation.
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In his June remarks, he said he wanted to protect the country from "the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country" and legal implications.
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There's also a psychological angle to the reactions of governments and other institutions, especially as countries have moved rapidly to draconian measures such as locking down whole societies.
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Doing your taxes is frustrating, but doing your taxes when you're accumulating paystubs in a variety of states, precincts, and countries can make an annoying process downright draconian.
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Okay, so most of the measures used in China to stop the virus were traditional public health moves that are broadly accepted — and the draconian measures were rarer.
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The decline in public market valuations had a draconian effect on merger and acquisition activity, because it was the public cannabis companies leading the acquisition charge, he said.
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From Chile to Ireland, citizens in traditionally Catholic countries have been given the chance to debate the morality of draconian abortion laws that punish women, especially poor women.
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"We need a strong, clear, transparent, public health evidence-based communicator who will coordinate among agencies and who will manage upward in our current draconian administration," she explained.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that spending reductions in the more draconian proposals would have forced about 15 million poor Americans off the Medicaid rolls by 85033.
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He's also proposed draconian limits on the scientific data, including peer-reviewed studies on public health, which EPA uses to develop new pollution limits and public health protections.
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"If (prosecutors) wanted to come up with more draconian charges here, it appears there would be an evidentiary basis from the four corners of the complaint," Michel says.
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When you make such draconian cuts and close factories, it raises the question of whether Kraft Heinz is a company that needs another big deal to support itself.
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A third option would be to target five countries with a draconian 2265 percent tariff with everyone else subject to a quota also set at last year's imports.
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A country with draconian security laws and increasingly unfriendly borders is no longer the America we and foreign travelers once knew and of which we could be proud.
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