Is this newspaper within its rights to call Singapore's fake-news law draconian?
Hunters Urged to Kill Predatory Wolves in Siberia
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
MOSCOW — The wolf population is about 3,500, while ideally it should not exceed 500, the government said.
Greeks Struggle to Resolve Their Differences
Greece's political party leaders will resume talks Monday after major differences on draconian reforms as part of an international aid package remained unresolved following a marathon meeting Sunday.
Europe pressures Ireland over corporate tax rate
Ireland's export trade is booming, thanks - in part at least - to the
nation's low rate of corporate tax, which has attacted a lot of
international investment. But Dublin's benign policy towards multinationals
has attracted much criticism of late. Some of its European partners,
including France and Germany, believe that the country's corporate tax rate
is too low - even predatory.
The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/
Italian parliament adopts draconian austerity budget
The Italian parliament on Friday gave the green light to a draconian
austerity budget designed to cut the country’s soaring deficit by 2014
and reassure nervous financial markets.
The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/
- Memories of communism
Romania's communist regime was one of the most brutal in eastern Europe.
Nicolae Ceaucescu introduced draconian economic and social policies.
The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/
China has become a major financial and trade power. But it doesn’t act like other big economies. Instead, it follows a mercantilist policy, keeping its trade surplus artificially high. And in today’s depressed world, that policy is, to put it bluntly, predatory.
中國已成為金融和貿易強權，但舉止不像其他經濟大國，而是依循重商主義政策，蓄意讓貿易順差維持在高點。在舉世都不景氣的今日，這個政策講白一點就是種掠奪的行為。
draconian
adj.
Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts.
[After DRACO1.]
of late
Recently, lately, as in She's been very quiet of late; is something wrong? This idiom uses late as a noun instead of an adjective, a usage dating from about 1250. The idiom dates from the early 1400s.
predatory
- pred • a • to • ry
- 発音
- prédətɔ`ːri | -təri
[形]
1 《動物》捕食性の.
2 ((限定))略奪する, 略奪を目的［常習］とする
3 ((軽蔑・おどけて))〈人が〉自分の利益［性的満足］のために他人を利用する.
predatory tribes
略奪によって生活している民族.
略奪によって生活している民族.
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