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Перевод: Draconian

[прилагательное]
драконовский; суровый

Тезаурус:

1. One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries, either directly or indirectly, imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so.
2. The world champion may not be worried about the 500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month's Stuttgart Open, but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament, which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings, plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment.
3. Even in 1930, when the most draconian workhouse rules had been eased, another London survey of aged applicants for relief found that half had no family at all.
4. In this phase, too, the ideological obsessions, the immorality and criminality of the regime, and - as Germany came under pressure for the first time - the draconian repression of the police state, were becoming more and more evident, and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population.
5. In the past week, it happens, we have heard intelligent and well-meaning whites talking in apocalyptic terms about the problem of the black underclass - that it can only be solved by draconian measures of enshrining abortion or taking children away from mothers.
6. A draconian set of "emergency war laws" is being drawn up.
7. The draconian 42-year sentence had been negated.
8. The argument of all crackdown law is that it applies special, draconian measures to tackle some heinous crime.
9. The public was bewildered as to what Blake had done to deserve such a draconian sentence.
10. Here, too, of course, a misplaced word could result in a denunciation and draconian "punishment", but plainly the massive growth in the number of critics of the Party made possible a wide range of devastating comment.
11. Totally to oust the court's supervisory jurisdiction in a field where ex hypothesi the citizen can have no right to be consulted is a draconian and dangerous step indeed.
12. In February 1990, by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham, Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third, a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal.
13. Alain Prost has expressed considerable concern that FISA's strict new rules on driver discipline might result in ostensibly innocent racing manoeuvres attracting draconian penalties during the 1991 world championship season.