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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
Best
Good
You
Class
Protection
Discipline
Young
Dissent
Incredibly
Tell
Some
Determined
Current
Form
Aspects
Teachers
Who
Keep
Draconian
Orthodoxy
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
Prison
Active
Increasingly
Criminal
Penalties
Constantly
More
Lead
Unskilled
Almost
Almost All
Demands
Industry
Labor
Officers
Public
Draconian
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
You
Conservative
Law
Crime
First
Liberalism
Books
TV
Some
Excess
Supposedly
First Place
Because
Always
Hear
Been
Place
Hollywood
Sentencing
Enforce
Vindictive
Draconian
Cops
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
Service
School
Will
Pensions
Collectors
About
Laws
Attack
Toughest
Retirement
Parts
Healthcare
Making
Still
Continue
Decent
Refuse
Staff
Public
Meals
Workers
Union
Europe
Public Service
Media
Among
Right
Draconian
Britain
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
Rights
Problems
Would
Solve
Some
More
Remedies
Protected
Been
Than
Create
Draconian
Suggested
Copyright
Need
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
Democracy
Else
Assure
Our
More
New
Powers
Exercise
Without
Wales
Than
Task
Behalf
Anybody
Anybody Else
Wanting
Interesting
Draconian