lenient punishment

Limited probation was the most lenient punishment the students could have received for the disruption.

The character judge is known for his lenient punishments.

Judges, mirroring local public opinion, tend to give lenient punishments.

Class C represents those thought to have the least capacity for harm, and so the Act demands more lenient punishment.

The case went to trial in January 1912 and the jury found Fox guilty of the offense, but recommend a lenient punishment.

It is generally agreed that the purge was not well conducted, with often absurdly severe or overly lenient punishments being handed down.

When the first astonishingly harsh sentences were handed down, the remaining defendants quickly began agreeing to plead guilty in return for more lenient punishment.

Of 479 cases which have appeared in magistrates' courts around the country, 21% are age 17 or under, entitling them to anonymity and more lenient punishments.

By a fluke he escaped with extremely lenient punishment: he was allowed to hold on to a job in the central Government, but in disgrace.

The devil is in the details, obviously, but the principle of ISP monitoring + lenient punishments is a sound one.

(Some defendants, after seeing the excessively harsh sentences being handed down, rushed to plead guilty in exchange for more lenient punishment.)

But Mr. Campbell's lawyers assert the case is built on shoddy evidence and unreliable witnesses who traded lenient punishment for their testimony.

General Crist, a Marine Corps officer, recommended that the officer be given a non-judicial letter of reprimand, the most lenient punishment available to the military.

However, she was banished from Earth by the Wizards, who imprisoned her on Ithrea (a very lenient punishment, as she had a whole world to herself).

The family alleged that the others were "tipped off" to the rumors and were encouraged to initiate a confession of guilt in order to receive a more lenient punishment.

And that, after all, would be a far more lenient punishment than these people give to their any of "their" citizens that happen to get in the way of their criminal enterprises.

The more lenient punishments given to women probably reflect a belief that female crime is a result of sickness, of some physical or emotional problem, rather than being rational action with specific, often financial, motives.

But according to department records, and commission members who spoke on condition of anonymity, at least six officers who have pleaded guilty to lying or falsifying documents since then have received more lenient punishments.

The elders of the Assemblies of God today rejected a recommendation of lenient punishment for the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart and returned the issue to Louisiana church officials for reconsideration.

Co-defendants and previous offenders charged with "hacking" offenses had received rather lenient punishments, and given his new-found enthusiasm for using his knowledge to constructive ends, the general feeling was optimistic prior to sentencing.

Newry chairman Paul McKenna condemned the lenient punishments, stating that the commission "bottled it", though the IFA ruled that they "acted fully in line with regulations and procedures".

With the rest of the world calling for stricter sanctions after last year's Tour de France scandal and other international doping embarrassments, Samaranch may find it politically untenable to approve more lenient punishments.

Their hypothesis regarding group polarization was supported in that they found that deliberations produced a shift toward more severe punishment for high authoritarians but toward more lenient punishment for low authoritarians.

The imposition of such lenient punishments is, in fact, a slap in the face of the victims on the part of the courts, which take such a light view of the wrong done to the victims.