draconianism
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5ADJ.
all
VERB + DRACONIANISM
discipline
DRACONIANISM + NOUN
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than
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rather
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noun
A system of cruel or harsh laws.
When an organization has selected its mission and laid out its strategies for attaining it, the job duties inherent in those functions must be monitored to determined that they are being performed adequately. This aspect of monitoring may smack of draconianism or Taylorism, but it is not. All organizations that are successful over time monitor their progress and internal functions.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of draconianism.
What a store of shame and sorrow is he laying up for himself! I never much admired the vaunt of Draconianism, ‘And all this I dare do, because I dare,’ yet what but this is Lord Byron’s plea!
This latter development is one of the most interesting of all Nazi Draconianisms. Under the Hereditary Farms Law of 1933, all farms up to 312 acres that are capable of supporting a family can never be mortgaged or sold and must be passed on undivided by the owner after his death to the eldest (in some cases the youngest) male heir.
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4When an organization has selected its mission and laid out its strategies for attaining it, the job duties inherent in those functions must be monitored to determined that they are being performed ade
WiktionaryWhat a store of shame and sorrow is he laying up for himself! I never much admired the vaunt of Draconianism, ‘And all this I dare do, because I dare,’ yet what but this is Lord Byron’s plea!
WiktionaryThis latter development is one of the most interesting of all Nazi Draconianisms. Under the Hereditary Farms Law of 1933, all farms up to 312 acres that are capable of supporting a family can never be
WiktionaryKeane could hardly have laid it on the line more eloquently in his press conference that week, that this was discipline rather than Draconianism. There wasn’t a trace of self-doubt from the manager ov
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