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Usage examples of draconian.

Like most of the inhabitants of the Draconian system, Chev knew very little of matters outside his specialty, which was combat.

These secondary sanctions would have to be truly draconian to drive up the costs of smuggling so high that no oil company or arms maker, nor any country with such industries, would want to take the risk of being caught.

All had signed draconian nondisclosure agreements requiring them to post a significant personal bond in escrow, to submit to a polygraph test on request, and to allow ITC to tap their phones without notice.

Accordingly, he had wanted to find the right person for the job, someone without a lot of scruples, in case draconian methods became necessary, someone highly chauvinistic in the nonsexist sense of the term, and someone with some serious experience.

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Because these secondary sanctions would be so draconian, every time the United States intelligence community found a country guilty of smuggling with Iraq, its advocates within the U.

Security Council, attempted to honor that commitment by imposing a demanding set of disarmament and political requirements on Iraq backed by draconian sanctions and the implicit threat of additional military operations.

Plains tribes were scattered as much through vagrancy and underemployment as through anything the draconians were doing at the time, and the fact is that they were confined to a life of wandering and forage merely because so many of the more promising young people among them were hastened off to dance attendance on the various Chieftains and Chieftain's daughters.

Instead of gold-glinting scales and sleek wingless bodies, these draconians were brassy and bewinged.

Standing about four and a half feet tall, the dwarves ducked under the legs of the seven-foot tall draconians, whose chibs and sword blades generally whistled right over the dwarves' heads.

Kerian saw them, the Wilder Elves outflanked, the Knights and draconians rampaging among them, savaging Dars band from two sides.

In many respects, the entire planet could have been considered a vast toxic waste dump, where human-habitable enclaves could be carved out only through unremitting effort and where draconian birth control had been required for a millennium.

How all his people's efforts had resulted only in more savage and draconian laws, in fiercer oppressions.

The opportunists moved in and took over, and there were six years of Draconian laws and corrupt administrations from the lower to the upper Hudson.

In his eyes a crime was a crime and when he had finished his code, the people of Athens discovered that these Draconian laws were so severe that they could not possibly be put into effect.