Word: draconian
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...required to have been trained by their club, or by another in the same country, for at least three years between the ages of 15 and 21, regardless of their nationality. But UEFA doesn't demand that local players actually take the field, as Blatter's more draconian FIFA proposal would. He has said he would push ahead on making that far more visible change with "consultation, not confrontation...
...unlike similar developing countries like Brazil or India, it is underpinned by a deep distaste for the arts. After the 1980 coup, tens of thousands of leftists were imprisoned and often tortured. Newspapers and magazines were banned, politics was forbidden in schools and universities and free speech stifled by draconian laws, some of which are still on the books. With intellectualism effectively quashed, the end result was a cultural vacuum. Recovering has not been easy...
...Granted, Clinton's fight on Florida's behalf is driven more by desperation than by principle. She didn't challenge the DNC's draconian sanctions early in the campaign when she was well ahead in the polls; but now she needs Florida's delegates and popular vote to have even a small chance to grab the nomination. Obama didn't question the DNC either; and now that he's the front-runner it's in his best interest to simply run out the clock. But that kind of political calculus isn't going to ease bruised feelings in the state...
...students rather than other offenders because of the ease with which enforcement can be outsourced to universities. More importantly, preserving the structure of current copyright law, a relic of the times before fast bandwidth made worldwide music sharing a possibility, is not worth the costs of enforcement. The current draconian restrictions on music sharing are too cumbersome and simply incompatible with age in which electronic transfer of media is the norm. This outdated business model relies on album sales, with radio play, concert tours, and music videos relegated to serving as promotion. While this business model has been dominant among...
...opinion will resist its implementation, even in green-minded Massachusetts. And in the meantime, gasification plants will be spewing CO2 into the atmosphere under the aegis of a “renewable energy” bill.Should legislators choose to incentivize gasification, the state could impose CCS directly or with draconian emissions taxes. It is questionable, however, whether gasification with CCS could ever be called environmentally friendly. Despite its reduced emissions, a gasification-CCS plant would require 25 percent more coal than a traditional plant to generate the same amount of electricity. In the long run, gasification with CCS is likely...