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Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
John Cale / Musician
Draconian
Growing
Growing Up
Wales
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It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.
David Perlmutter / Author
Draconian
Grain
May
Recommendations
Avoid
Grains
Recommendation
Seem
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More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.
Ash Sarkar /
Crime
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Punishment
Reduction
Forms
Guarantee
No Guarantee
Policing
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Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.
Jon Ronson / Journalist
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Justice
Wanted
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Far from curbing terror, we find that draconian laws used by a corrupt and communal police are creating conditions which will only exacerbate the problem.
Prashant Bhushan /
Conditions
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Terror
Corrupt
Communal
Exacerbate
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Patrick Leahy / United States Senator
Copyright
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Needs
Problem
Protected
Rights
Remedies
Suggested
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I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
Ron Davies /
Behalf
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Wales
Anybody Else
Assure
Powers
Task
Wanting
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Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.
Jerry Brown / Governor Of California
Running
Californians
Draconian
Fewer
Long
Mean
Pension
Reform
Fix
Demands
Layoffs
Long Run
Measures
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I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.
Jonathan Kozol / Writer
Determined
Discipline
Dissent
Draconian
Orthodoxy
Protection
Best Good Keep
Teachers
Aspects
Current
Incredibly
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It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons.
George Pelecanos / Author
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Roadblock
Surprise
Discourage
Limit
Outright
Prisons
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Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Active
Draconian
Labor
Officers
Penalties
Prison
Almost All
Criminal
Demands
Increasingly
Unskilled
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Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
Marian Wright Edelman / Activist
Children
Choices
Cutting
Draconian
Fighting
Preparation
Protect
Ready
Survival
Tax Cuts
Tomorrow
Tax
Budget
Cuts
Fight
Neither
Threaten
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Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
Michael Mann / Film Director
Choices
Draconian
Etc
Hawks
Budget
Controls
Meaning
Poorly
Studio
Script
Studio System
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.
Tom Shales / Critic
Book
Conservative
Crime
Draconian
Excess
Law
Liberalism
Vindictive
Cops
Enforce
First Place
Sentencing
Supposedly
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Film work can be anything from just really hard and stressful and you're subjected to really weird deadlines to really draconian and weird and disconnected. You're working in service of the thing, and that can be really amazing for everyone involved, or be kind of just a waste of time.
Oneohtrix Point Never /
Be Kind
Disconnected
Draconian
Stressful
Waste
Time Work Amazing
Deadlines
Work Time Amazing
Subjected
Waste Of Time
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The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.'
Greg Boyle / Priest
Failure
Delayed
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Penalties
Stance
Strikes
Youth
Adult
Cloth
Enhance
Lower
Seeks
Thou
Tougher
Tries
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
Frances O'grady /
Britain
Collectors
Decent
Draconian
Healthcare
Meals
Media
Public Service
Retirement
School
Staff
Workers
Attack
Pensions
Union
Toughest
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The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / Journalist
Afghan
Draconian
Gains
Regions
Secure
Taliban
Well Known
Achieved
Cited
Mandatory
Offices
Overthrown
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Eventually, understanding the motivations of the terrorists and dealing with the injustices that pervade our society, and repairing the institutions of justice, particularly the police and the judiciary, will be a much more effective way of fighting terror, than laws which give more draconian powers to corrupt and insensitive police organisations.
Prashant Bhushan /
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Insensitive
Judiciary
Repairing
Terror
Corrupt
Effective Way
Injustices
Motivations
Organisations
Powers
Terrorists
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