Word: draconian
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...Russia might be metamorphosing from Stalinist communism into something milder, but the leadership is still draconian. People with dissenting views have disappeared and died on Putin's watch. You say your selection is not an endorsement, but it has that effect. Gary Clark Lake Stevens, Wash...
...cutting edge in this regard: from the establishment of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services in recent years to the online alcohol education course for incoming freshmen called AlcoholEdu, to the group of student-leaders known as Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors. Of course, some of the more draconian and less supportive measures University Hall has instituted were considerably less successful—take the College’s currently contradictory amnesty and student-group-leader responsibility policies. Nevertheless, banning hard alcohol seems to jibe with Harvard’s commitment to safe and responsible alcohol policies. Stein clubs...
...order to lift emergency rule should please Musharraf's Western backers, including the U.S. But many of the measures Musharraf introduced over the past six weeks remain. Draconian new regulations such as the one that curbs the freedom of the press as well as the changes to the Supreme Court "shall not be called into question by or before any court," a clause in today's order reads. Musharraf's announcement came within hours of a suicide bombing which killed five people outside an army base about 75 miles (120 km) north of the capital Islamabad. Pakistan has faced...
...Call me draconian, but something about the flip-flopped guy next to me who clipped his toenails at 37,000 ft.--their crescent moons cartwheeling majestically into the aisle--turned me into a hard-liner on this issue...
...characters involved in the central love story seem too busy in their roles as plot devices to be terribly interesting, although Budris and Levine have an entertaining duet in which they demonstrate what, exactly, the draconian laws of the Mikado forbid them to do. Yum-Yum eventually reveals some personality in a song about her own earth-shattering beauty...