Sentences Generator
And
Your saved sentences

No sentences have been saved yet

582 Sentences With "more lenient"

How to use more lenient in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "more lenient" and check conjugation/comparative form for "more lenient". Mastering all the usages of "more lenient" from sentence examples published by news publications.

type: All Declarative Interrogative Exclamative

structure: All Simple Compound Complex Compound-Complex

length: All <=10 words 10-20 words 20-30 words 30-50 words

But her online contacts kept suggesting a more lenient schedule.
In 2016, the FDA instead took a more lenient tack.
Brunei wants a more lenient approach to its coal industry.
Does the response from the police seems harsher or more lenient?
When it comes to overseeing screen time, Wojcicki is more lenient.
Will Biden — BFF of tech-friendly Obama — take a more lenient stand?
Before the riot, backbench parliamentarians had proposed more lenient drug-sentencing laws.
Trump gets another nomination it could become even more lenient on death
When consumers buy more SUVs, the standards adjust to become more lenient.
She switched to a more lenient church, and eventually—undramatically—stopped going.
If he feels management was being more lenient -- I don't see that.
Defendants may also argue for more lenient sentences based on mental illness.
But the Florida resident could receive a more lenient sentence by cooperating.
They've actually increased their sanctions on us, rather than being more lenient.
WADA could have petitioned for either a harsher or more lenient punishment.
This drop did not coincide, however, with more lenient rules around social media.
But even reputable but less popular journals might have more lenient acceptance rates.
Greg understands what I'm saying, [but] Greg's more lenient to the metal stuff.
The liberal immigrant rights groups have long-advocated the Democrats' more lenient approach.
In many cases, even the prosecutors believed that more lenient terms were appropriate.
Asked about Gianforte on Thursday, however, some Republican leaders were much more lenient.
Even so, a few stores made their return rules more lenient this year.
He added that 40% of his clients were seeking more lenient payment terms.
But so far, the North has appeared to be more lenient toward Australians.
But so far, the North has appeared to be more lenient toward Australians.
Blazing a path Shanghai, with its rich cosmopolitan history, has typically been more lenient.
The international fuss around Mr Ghosn may even have made the courts more lenient.
With radical parties gaining ground, the next Commission may be more lenient or weaker.
The new approach, announced in a blog post today, is more lenient on publishers.
No one wins reelection because more people chose a more lenient loan repayment plan.
Others are more lenient, and a dozen states do not even require a permit.
Now, Hernandez is hoping for a more lenient sentence by testifying against his cohorts.
Most writers try and get in about 750 words, but I'm a bit more lenient.
Other filters, however, are more lenient, allowing for example the news or some social media.
We have a paper showing that judges tend to be more lenient on defendant's birthdays.
Trump has presented Israel with a more lenient approach to its settlements than his predecessor.
The Trump administration since January has signaled a much more lenient approach to antitrust enforcement.
Are they more lenient with you, or friendlier to you than all of your colleagues?
Others, known as "title washers," move cars to states where titling laws are more lenient.
Some federal agencies — and administrations — are more lenient than others when it comes to waivers.
Koch Industries, for example, lobbied hard for sweeping criminal justice changes, including more lenient sentencing.
So I think in that sense, they're a little bit more lenient to the draconian measures.
The sentencing is more lenient and forgiving for Brock Turners than it is for Cyntoia Browns.
It suggests that foreign companies may receive more lenient treatment if they pass into American ownership.
Trump's replacement rule is much more lenient and allows states more leeway in regulating power plants.
Southwest Airlines currently has a more lenient pet policy than other airlines regarding emotional support animals.
But Republican antitrust enforcers, picked by Mr. Trump, may take a more lenient approach to mergers.
His lawyers plan to ask for a more lenient sentence as this is his first offense.
Many Africans report registering their visas in nearby Foshan, where the authorities they say are more lenient.
The more lenient arrangements would not apply to drug gangs, armed traffickers and repeat offenders, ISNA said.
For example, U.S. government policy is more lenient toward people from some countries, less so for others.
Fuel economy standards around the world tend to become more lenient as car weight and size increase.
European regulators are much more lenient, requiring a ratio of only 3 percent beginning in January 2018.
Mr. Barr told ABC that he immediately asked that prosecutors replace it with a more lenient request.
She looks for precedents in which Israelis received more lenient treatment than her clients in similar circumstances.
Gates' testimony, they stressed, was part of a deal he struck to obtain a more lenient sentence.
And while he has been more lenient with abortion, it remains a complex issue for the church.
Separately, there's also a push to make the FDA more lenient on another aspect of regulation: marketing.
It also lays out a more lenient schedule for states, giving them three years to develop a strategy.
But it's more lenient on statements about subsets of these categories, and about "quasi-protected" categories like refugees.
Between the lines: Compared to China, India is a much more lenient entry-point from a regulatory perspective.
By secretly making recordings, testifying, and pointing fingers, the lawyers claim, they hope to win more lenient sentences.
Brainwashing lasted until the final moments of the USSR, but the 60s were already a more lenient period.
The weather gets cooler, everyone's diets get a little more lenient, and out comes this deliciously decadent dessert.
Researchers concluded an algorithm used in courtroom sentencing was more lenient to white people than to black people.
For instance, Wells has revised its overdraft rules, to make them more lenient on those who make mistakes.
Attorney Lisandro Quintanilla said Salvadoran law allows for a more lenient punishment in view of a guilty plea.
Federal prosecutors sought cooperation from the firms involved in the expanded probe in return for more lenient penalties.
The lesson is not that society needs to be more lenient with rapists who aren't blond Stanford swimmers.
Slightly more lenient is the Texas Department of Public Safety in Austin, which passed 60 percent in 2016.
"Such recognition would have more than likely resulted in a more lenient sentence for my client," Lessem said.
Edge providers, in contrast, fall under the more lenient privacy enforcement rules of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Previous administrations have been more lenient, largely reserving criminal charges for repeat offenders and other more serious cases.
Around the same time, the F.C.C., under pressure from lobbyists, modified the duopoly rule to be more lenient.
And in exchange for that, the hope is they will obtain more lenient treatment at their own sentencing.
When the N.F.L. season begins on Thursday, new and far more lenient celebration rules will go into effect.
When they learn the details of individual cases, however, they often want the government to be more lenient.
But the increase in adult marijuana use might make it easier to pass more lenient laws, added Hall.
Amanda's family had pleaded with the judge to give Amanda a more lenient sentence, according to the outlet.
Some collected money for living expenses, while others stand to get recommendations for more lenient sentences, he said.
Nonetheless, on Thursday, Berman Jackson demonstrated genuine fairness in meting out a more lenient sentence of 40 months.
A common parenting problem Sussman sees is that one parent is more lenient and one parent is stricter.
While the automakers would all prefer more lenient targets than the 2025 ones, they differ on the specifics.
The Premier League, for example, maintains a more lenient attitude to physical contact and even handballs than elsewhere.
Discovery rules are often more lenient in state court than federal court, and pleading standards are less rigorous.
A move to soften bail-in rules may be part of the more lenient stance on fiscal policy.
Their plea came after they reportedly originally thought prosecutors were bluffing when they rejected a more lenient plea deal.
Hayde told FOX31 officials will be far "more lenient" with those charges if the culprit decides to come forward.
Later, a group submitted letters to an employee bulletin board requesting a more lenient break schedule and other changes.
One small example: Ms. Yates pushed for more lenient sentencing laws and an expanded educational system in federal prison.
The sentence, a SFr7,200 ($7,603) fine, was much more lenient than the prosecution's demand of 12 months in prison.
The bill also provides for more lenient sentences for sex crimes than currently exist for similar crimes against women.
The FHA-backed loans are increasingly being offered by non-bank lenders with more lenient credit standards than banks.
Last October's dismissal came after the appeals court in the interim imposed a more lenient standard for whistleblower protection.
The IRS is going to be more lenient about penalties because of the confusion surround the tax code changes.
"The fact that they are paying money and not facing jail time strikes me as more lenient," he said.
United States courts would likely be more lenient, especially toward military personnel, and guilty pleas could lighten any sentences.
Reuters reported in September 2018 that federal prosecutors were seeking cooperation from BRF in return for more lenient penalties.
Other proposals to consider include offering repentant returnees a more lenient treatment if they provide information to law enforcers.
Critics alleged the Calderon administration was more lenient on the Sinaloa Cartel than other gangs, based on arrest numbers.
Not surprisingly, for states with harsher regimes, the reoffending rate is higher than in states with more lenient schemes.
I think even the judges are a little more lenient than usual because the night just has this incredible energy.
Defense attorneys had sought to have both cases handled by the juvenile court system, where criminal penalties are more lenient.
Google is a little more lenient, filing sex toys under Adult Content and restricting ads rather than prohibiting them entirely.
FCA's case will soon be handed over to the new U.S. administration, which the market expects to be more lenient.
Mr Foster can ask for a new sentencing trial, but he has no guarantee another jury will be more lenient.
Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and agreed to cooperate in hopes of receiving a more lenient sentence.
Some of the national discourse since then has focused attention on whether athletes in prominent sports receive more lenient treatment.
Clinton for favoring more lenient immigration policies and calling her attack on Mr. Trump tantamount to an accusation of treason.
But Uribe had himself pursued talks with the FARC rebels, on terms more lenient than those eventually offered by Santos.
In 2013, then-attorney general Eric Holder told federal prosecutors in a memo to be more lenient on drug offenders.
Ms. Backman said that she did not allow dogs inside, but that her son was more lenient on such matters.
HSBC said a gradual easing in Chinese monetary policy and expectations for more lenient housing measures could boost buying sentiment.
Today, we're a bit more lenient with the term, extending it to include all of the season's chunky platform boots.
The defense asked for a more lenient prison sentence, arguing that there was no definitive link to any health consequences.
Her sons grew up around their more lenient grandmother, while Ms. Rivera acknowledged she can be harder on her boys.
These individuals now have an opportunity to come forward -- and perhaps receive more lenient treatment than if they stay silent.
Most of them refused the statutory offer to repent of their actions in order to receive a more lenient sentence.
Both parties' views on crime grew more lenient in light of the massive decline in crime rates in the 1990s.
At the height of the financial crisis, Europe was much more lenient in allowing member states to salvage their sagging lenders.
Although Google regularly kicks out sizable numbers of malicious apps, it has always been more lenient on spammy apps than Apple.
Movies are more violent, ratings more lenient, and overall gun-use in film has risen approximately 21% in the last decade.
By the more lenient standard, the group found the tap water of 7 million Americans has dangerous levels of chromium-6.
President Barack Obama's Justice Department took a more lenient stance toward those states, although there were some legal battles then, too.
Most hospitals in France are state-owned, meaning the hijab is banned (though they are more lenient with visitors than staff).
Overall, retailers have been getting more flexible with their return policies in recent years, yet some are more lenient than others.
N, but the drugstore company is likely hoping the potentially more lenient Federal Trade Commission gets the nod, antitrust experts say.
That marks a sharp contrast with Holder, who pressed federal prosecutors to be more lenient with nonviolent, low-level drug offenders.
Another reason to file your return even if you can't pay is this: The IRS might be more lenient with you.
The ruling may also curtail exports from the United States, which has taken a more lenient view of gene-edited foods.
Yet the statute that applies to fatal incidents in other industrial settings is even more lenient than the Mine Safety Act.
The IRS is always more lenient with taxpayers who come forward on their own accord rather than those that get discovered.
Those overseas should "abandon illusions" and grasp the opportunity to surrender, in order to receive more lenient treatment, the official added.
For the cynics in the crowd, though, the more lenient guidelines seem to also reflect just how few Americans are physically active.
Airlines haven't been shy that the no-frills product is there to encourage travelers to pay a higher, more lenient fare instead.
The couple's plea comes after it was reported they originally thought prosecutors were bluffing when they rejected a more lenient plea deal.
It also provides a more lenient citizenship path for DACA recipients, which has fewer conditions and takes four years rather than 11.
She cooperated with authorities, though, agreeing to aid in the investigation into the prison break in exchange for a more lenient sentence.
Baseball is even more lenient: if an underclassman is drafted but doesn't sign a contract, they can return to school no problem.
Karp got to work on his own book, wanting to document his techniques for calming crying while promoting a more lenient approach.
He said other major countries such as China and India are being held to much more lenient standards that the United States.
Zuma threatened on Friday to pull out of the inquiry before his demand for a more lenient form of questioning was granted.
But she said Sanders' record showed a more lenient attitude toward the demands of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby.
Instead they will be governed by more lenient U.S. privacy laws, said Michael Veale, a technology policy researcher at University College London.
One danger is that banks lend to their corporate shareholders on more lenient terms than to regular borrowers, regardless of credit risks.
Wince's attorney argued for a more lenient sentence of probation and home confinement, citing his service in the Navy and law enforcement.
"Taking a more lenient stance on clean-air or clean-water rules would do nothing to help coal demand," Mr. Book said.
Sadly, the Obama administration encouraged this big-car bias by setting more lenient mileage and greenhouse gas emission requirements for larger vehicles.
Mr. Mahathir's successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, also of UMNO, was more lenient, partly on the advice of a coterie of young advisers.
While all of these stores offer a price-matching feature of some sort, some policies are more lenient, while others are stricter.
Previously, bad schools that were facing closing could look for a new, more lenient charter sponsor to allow them to stay open.
But several countries, including China and India, are expected to push for a more lenient system that is reliant on self-reporting.
He had faced a maximum of five years in prison, though likely would have received a far more lenient sentence if convicted.
Shortly after, the DOJ asked the judge for a more lenient sentence, leading the entire prosecutorial team to withdraw from the case.
She pleaded guilty to manslaughter and child endangerment, and agreed to testify for the prosecution in return for a more lenient sentence.
The committee's recent resolution is more lenient than one in May that asked the city to "discontinue" free parking on the street.
That is a more lenient standard than for other refugee applicants, who must prove they face a well-founded fear of persecution.
But after President Trump called their recommendation a "miscarriage of justice," federal officials stepped in to call for a more lenient sentence.
Analysts have criticised the existing EU test as being more lenient that the test of U.S. banks conducted by the Federal Reserve.
Her supporters also argue that other figures in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election have received far more lenient treatment.
Of the 27 member states, fully 20 have shifted to a more lenient mix of positions, whereas only one (Ireland) has grown tougher.
Trump had been seen as offering more lenient conditions on trade and deferring other actions in return for Chinese help on North Korea.
We were always more lenient in our attitudes toward criminal punishment, and saw ourselves as being more advanced than these punitive European societies.
Once dedicated to furthering a criminal enterprise, they now dedicate themselves to proving their value to prosecutors in return for more lenient treatment.
"From the reduction rate perspective, this year seems to be more lenient than last year," said Zhao Yu, an analyst at Huatai Futures.
"If this person, who might very well be a young person, were to come forward, we might be much more lenient," Hayde said.
The Trump administration has taken a more lenient stance toward Assad, breaking with the Obama administration's past calls for him to abdicate power.
Mr. Callejas's plea may signal a willingness to cooperate with the authorities, whose investigation is continuing, in hopes of a more lenient sentence.
Trump has cast his estranged personal lawyer as a liar willing to tell investigators anything in order to gain a more lenient sentence.
The defense argued that Mr. Rechnitz would say whatever he thought would help him get a more lenient sentence for his own crime.
Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said on Sunday that his namesake banking regulation bill Dodd-Frank should have been more lenient towards smaller banks.
While they did not recommend any specific sentence, the prosecutors said Mr. Gates had earned a more lenient sentence than the guidelines suggest.
But he'd likely be sentenced in step with federal guidelines that typically call for a much more lenient punishment for first-time offenders.
The commission is attributing the decline to Obama-era orders urging federal prosecutors to be more lenient with nonviolent, low-level drug offenders.
Even though this order is more lenient than the previous one, critics are still calling it discriminatory because it again targets Muslim-majority countries.
Confessing to a lese-majeste crime is routine practice in Thailand, where the accused often plead guilty in hopes of a more lenient sentence.
After a federal judge gave the father and son duo a more lenient sentence, the prosecution successfully appealed, meaning they were resentenced in 2015.
It also rejected Fogle's assertion that because he had viewed the child pornography but not produced it, his sentence should have been more lenient.
The more lenient standard is both widely shared and more reasonable, the court held, "absent some special relationship of trust" between the sexual partners.
At a campaign stop Thursday in Myrtle Beach, Mr. Rubio twice tied Mr. Cruz to more lenient positions on immigration that are unpopular here.
Guatemala's congress back-pedaled on its attempt to change the law to make punishment for corruption more lenient by replacing jail sentences with fines.
Now AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile sell only monthly installment plans and full-price phones, and are more lenient about customers switching networks.
"What worries me is because Alabama has more lenient rules on age of marriage and that makes me a little bit upset," he says.
Kasich offered a more lenient perspective on illegal immigration, favoring a "guest worker" program for Mexican migrants with the opportunity to become legal residents.
But infuriated liberal voters will be equally as energized, Sharry argued, while crucial independents will also flock to the Democrats' more lenient immigration positions.
But clearly, he is testifying with the hope of receiving a more lenient sentence than the three years in prison a judge has decreed.
Before the sanctions, Kalashnikov's plan for expansion focused on the United States, where gun ownership laws are more lenient than in many other countries.
Somewhat ironically, Europe, which has been quick to ban cosmetic ingredients, is more lenient in its approval of sunscreen ingredients than the US is.
A number of countries have employed the punishment for convicted sex offenders and pedophiles, in many cases in exchange for more lenient prison sentences.
Recent statements from the main agencies responsible for economic planning and managing state assets have also taken a more lenient stance on managing debt.
Despite the more lenient rules, players are still getting caught, including Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon, who sat out the entire 2015 season.
In comparison, Yestar's credit terms with imaging products supplier Fujifilm are much more lenient than the credit terms Yestar offers to its imaging customers.
If prosecutors determine that Mr. Meek's cooperation is "substantial," the agreement says, they will petition the court to be more lenient in sentencing him.
Jefferies told clients the ruling may lead to more mergers moves because it raises the perception of a "more lenient regulatory environment" for acquisitions.
If the Trump administration actually limited its deportation efforts to convicted criminals, it would be more lenient than the Obama administration has ever been.
Activists see parallels in the strategies of opponents of more lenient sentencing laws in California and the rhetoric on crime at the national level.
"The courts recognize that sparing a trial and cost of the proceeding is an incentive to getting a more lenient sentence," Mr. Ryan said.
Deutsche Wohnen shares jumped 9.6% after a German newspaper reported that an incoming rent freeze in Berlin could be more lenient than previously planned.
As a science major, Bhuiyan said she has labs she cannot miss, and she wants ASU to be more lenient with its attendance policy.
Moody's acknowledged that it used a more lenient standard for certain financial products and did not make public the differences from its published standards.
Though he faces a total of up to 65 years on all eight counts, the plea agreement provides for a far more lenient sentence.
"Every criminal defendant will have an incentive to show progress toward rehabilitation — they'll have the motivation of securing a more lenient sentence," he said.
In that aspect, I am more lenient with my kids, but at the same time, I still do a lot of what my parents did.
The expectation federal watchdogs will be more lenient under the Republican administration is creating tension with Democrat state regulators, in some cases sparking legal clashes.
And if he succeeds in kneecapping the country's environmental regulators, that should mean more lenient treatment of carbon-intensive industries including oil, gas and coal.
Furthermore, when patients are informed of potential risks associated with certain types of attire, they are more lenient in their preferences for a physician's appearance.
The Justice Department said it agreed to a more lenient penalty with General Cable because the company came forward and disclosed the misconduct to authorities.
If you refinance federal loans, you'll sacrifice federal protections, including loan forgiveness, more lenient deferment or forbearance and access to an income-driven repayment plan.
Those more lenient rules would include allowing companies to be unprofitable at IPO and to allow for multiple share classes, presumably with differential voting rights.
And some countries have a blanket policy of prosecuting all adults who return, while others are more lenient with returning women than they are men.
The attorney general guides US attorneys—the top federal prosecutors appointed by the president—toward stricter or more lenient sentences through so-called charging memos.
When executives from the Big Three automakers went to the White House last spring to ask for more lenient emissions rules, their prospects looked rosy.
Proponents of more lenient criminal enforcement of psilocybin cite studies indicating that the drug can be beneficial for treating depression and anxiety among cancer patients.
Raz, or so I thought at first, was more lenient than Serge; he concentrated more on technique, and so his training sessions seemed less strenuous.
There's no single cause for the increase, but activists have pointed to more lenient enforcement of traffic safety laws and increasing numbers of distracted drivers.
"Post the Trump win and the election, I think [health officials] will be far more lenient to Medicare," when it comes to regulatory pressure, said Gupte.
And while judges are overturning fewer negative determinations than they used to, they may well have a more lenient credibility standard than Border Patrol agents do.
The Food and Drug Administration's guidelines for labeling cosmetics (like body wash) are more lenient that those for products that are considered medical devices (like tampons).
A few told me that sometimes the kids — some wearing bright orange hats — wave back, but only when they're with certain guards who are more lenient.
Like almost all requests for antitrust exemptions, this one was premised on the claim that the industry was special and therefore should get more lenient treatment.
"I think the Justice Department could afford to be a little more lenient with the fine as long as individuals are held accountable," Mr. Garrett said.
Defense lawyers have sought to portray the cooperating witnesses as unreliable snitches who have exaggerated Guzman's role in the cartel in hope of more lenient sentences.
Twenty-five percent said both parties are getting the same treatment, 2900 percent are unsure and 220006 percent said the president is getting more lenient treatment.
And the emissions rules in the region are more lenient than in the United States, which will make it harder for European owners to pursue claims.
If a tribal government brings charges, the defendant may ultimately receive a much more lenient sentence than they would under federal law, they told the court.
On Monday, Trump said Cohen should serve a full prison term, casting him as a liar who peddled false stories to obtain a more lenient sentence.
The Commission's proposal is more lenient as it only applies to newly granted credit and gives banks an extra year for secured loans, among other aspects.
Cities have adopted a more lenient approach to drug offenses in particular, diverting many low-level drug offenders to probation or treatment rather than to jail.
"Rural areas usually have more lenient laws, so choosing rural areas may save you money," Rachel Preston Prinz, who runs an architectural firm, told Reader's Digest.
But standards got more lenient over time; public charge accounted for only 393 percent of denials in the 1940s and less than 1 percent after 1950.
Mr. Lynch said he and his team asked the judge for a more lenient sentence: five months in prison and another five months of home confinement.
The players would also receive 48.5 percent of shared revenue (compared with 47 percent now), enhanced medical and pension benefits, and more lenient testing for marijuana.
Looser enforcement and more lenient penalties have made the open use of marijuana — along with its unmistakable, pungent scent — more common on city streets and elsewhere.
Now, Stein's lawyer is asking for a more lenient sentence, arguing that the court consider the "backdrop" of the case: then-candidate Donald Trump's polarizing rhetoric.
The logic is that a federal law on the matter of, say, selling personally identifiable information to advertisers, would be more lenient and preempt state laws.
The administration has described this process as a circumvention of law in order to exploit more lenient policies for children, even labeling it "smuggling" of children.
While Netflix is famous for keeping viewership data closely guarded, the streaming giant has been releasing more and more lenient with sharing its eye-popping numbers.
The District Attorney's office announced its intent to retroactively apply new, more lenient rules on marijuana possession and legalization to drug cases dating back to 1975.
Canada, which has much more lenient immigration policies and has actively courted H-1B visa holders through billboards in Silicon Valley, has become a major beneficiary.
Though there have been increasing calls in recent years to abolish mandatory minimums, calls for stiffer sentences, not more lenient ones, are also making news of late.
"The charts, in a completely contrarian way as interpreted by Carley Garner, suggest that a lot of people are anticipating a more lenient Fed," the host said.
Li could have faced the death penalty for his crime, which the court said was premeditated, but the court statement said a more lenient sentence was appropriate.
Investor sentiment was also helped by expectations that the collapse of talks to form a government in Germany could lead to a more lenient outcome for RWE.
But sources have said that his departure reflects a clearout designed to help Airbus to win more lenient judicial settlements by presenting a fresh face to investigators.
That changed last month, when the police decided to try a more lenient approach against swipe-beggars and other low-level rule breakers, at least in Manhattan.
This is the first time the agency, which is in charge of setting the MREL for top euro zone banks, is saying it could be more lenient.
Prosecutors agreed not to seek more than eight years, however, and Mr. Pho's attorney, Robert C. Bonsib, will be free to ask for a more lenient sentence.
The prosecution's new filing on Wednesday, which focused on the appropriate sentence for Flynn, seemed to adopt a more lenient tone than earlier submissions from the government.
Similarly, research indicates that jurors are likely to be more lenient in assigning liability and punishment when a defendant is or appears to be 50 or older.
The decision to seek a more lenient punishment for Mr. Stone came less than two weeks after prosecutors backed off on their sentencing recommendation for Mr. Flynn.
But following a splatter of aggrieved tweets from Trump, the Justice Department "intervened to overrule" them, pushing for "more lenient sentencing," according to the New York Times.
He hopes to achieve not only a more lenient sentence but also some element of redemption by assisting federal prosecutors and acting as a "whistleblower" of sorts.
Public protests not sanctioned by the authorities are illegal in Kazakhstan and are often dispersed by police, although the authorities have become slightly more lenient under Tokayev.
Shareholders were once more lenient as drillers put capital to work to raise production, allowing drillers to destroy capital by pursuing growth for growth's sake, Papa said.
The sentences were slightly more lenient than the seven-to-10-year terms requested by a prosecutor at the end of a two-day trial this month.
And despite Trump's public focus this week on securing a more lenient sentence for Stone, what the president really wants is harsher punishment of his perceived enemies.
The SPD favors a more lenient approach toward those refugees seeking to bring to Germany family members whom they left behind in places like Syria and Iraq.
One explanation may be that the company wanted to take advantage of a new Japanese law that encourages companies to expose wrongdoing in return for more lenient treatment.
If the bail-out of Greece, say, returns to the headlines, the CDU could take a hawkish line, while the more lenient Mr Schulz might emphasise European solidarity.
So when the Texas legislature passed a bill overriding Austin's regulations with a more lenient statewide framework governing ride-hailing companies, Uber and Lyft immediately planned their return.
Politicizing the Jewish high holiday is sure to rub some the wrong way, and come off as a request for more lenient treatment by the public and press.
"When I'm traveling (and sometimes on the weekend), I'll cheat—I'm a little more lenient now than I was when I first started this whole thing," she said.
The 2-week pilot will include 5 round trips along Interstates 10, 3.03 and 30 through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, all of which have more lenient regulations.
Shao said by text message he and his wife felt compelled to accept the money even though his lawyer said it could result in a more lenient sentence.
For example, ticket changes cost $287 on average, while 1 bag costs $25 on average and 2 cost $59 on domestic flights, with international travel being more lenient.
Now, Republicans were a little bit more lenient on that front — they were split 2628 percent for or against whether it was a good or a bad thing.
Banks have invested in equities trading, even though it has relatively slim profit margins, because new capital requirements are generally more lenient on equity products than bond products.
The president may decide to draw a harder line against China or he might take a more lenient view in pursuit of other objectives in diplomacy or trade.
Republican Senator Lee Bright, who sponsored the measure, said he feared adult men would use more lenient bathroom policies as an excuse to prey on women and children.
The Trump administration has described this process as a circumvention of law in order to exploit more lenient policies for children, even labeling it the "smuggling" of children.
Reformers worried that people like Brock Turner, white men with access to expensive lawyers, received more lenient sentences than minorities and poor people charged with the same crimes.
Last week, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries office jointly announced several specific changes that make species protections more lenient.
Nothing. With China, the U.S. is trading "help" in dealing with North Korea for a more lenient treatment of Beijing's $350 to $400 billion surpluses on American trades.
The move also signals New Jersey positioning itself as a counterbalance to federal environmental officials under the Trump administration who have taken a more lenient approach toward polluters.
One study using these data found that minorities are less likely to receive mercy tickets and that officers are more lenient toward members of their own racial group.
But in court on Tuesday, she and Mr. Taubert both said that he was mentally ill and deserved a more lenient sentence, according to The Syracuse Post-Standard.
Even under the relatively more lenient standard that had prevailed for years, close to half of patients did not manage to get their blood pressure down to normal.
By subjecting judicial bail-setting decisions to statistical analysis, the first study found that some judges tended to be stricter in their bail rulings, and some more lenient.
And Mr. Trump — both as a candidate and as president — had taken a more lenient posture toward Moscow and Vladimir V. Putin than his predecessors in either party.
Although most group fitness studios don't want to see a reduction in footfall, some are offering more lenient cancellation policies to ensure no one feels pressured to come.
Sloane's lawyers asked the judge for a more lenient sentence of three years of supervised release, a $75,000 fine and 2,000 hours of community service, NBC Boston reports.
However, ThredUp is a lot more lenient in the brands it will accept; it'll take J.Crew alongside Coach, and it'll consider both women's and kids' clothing and accessories.
Still, if I had to do it again, I wouldn't go to Seal Beach's jail—I hear there are other pay-to-stay jails that are more lenient.
Oddly, Mr Duterte takes a more lenient line with claptrap written in his favour (the Philippines is drowning in false accounts of non-existent accolades for the great man).
"The charts, in a completely contrarian way as interpreted by Carley Garner, suggest that a lot of people are anticipating a more lenient Fed," the "Mad Money" host said.
Mr. Canellas, who pleaded guilty to a single count of grand larceny in return for a more lenient sentence, testified that Mr. Sanders and Mr. Warren attended that dinner.
What's more likely is that the coroner will restrict the search to Georgia's state-level database, which operates under more lenient rules and has been collecting samples since 1991.
According to a new study conducted by furniture company Joybird, women are more lenient with the freedom they give to dogs in the home than men tend to be.
Large volumes of plastic waste then diverted to other countries in the region, like Indonesia and India, where regulations on the waste trade are more lenient, the study said.
Furthermore, since Apple's more stringent approach to applications, at least in comparison to Google's more lenient approach, exist to provide greater security, this news tarnishes the tech giant's reputation.
Like Facebook, Instagram will count one video view as at least three seconds watched — a much more lenient standard than YouTube's 30 seconds, especially considering the videos play automatically.
It had been true that you could only see this particular documentary if its director Robert Frank was present, though this rule has gotten more lenient over the years.
Both deFur and Loeb expressed concern that Pruitt would be more lenient when negotiating cleanup deals with polluters, allowing them to pay less for plans that are less comprehensive.
Travelers were handled differently at different points of entry and immigration lawyers advised clients to change their destination to the more lenient airports, said Houston immigration lawyer Mana Yegani.
"Descheduling will reduce the conflict between federal policy and state programs" which have pursued more lenient policies on marijuana under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. constitution, he said.
Unlike June and July's debates, which had more lenient requirements that gave most candidates an opportunity to introduce themselves to America, the third debate has significantly stricter qualifications rules.
Criminal justice reformers annoyed by this disparity typically argue that it shows we need not tougher sentences in white-collar cases but rather more lenient sentences in other cases.
The Senate had initially hoped to be more lenient, and it appeared that the compromise in any case would leave a large number of potential voters unable to register.
Instead, they requested it under a federal law that requires only "reasonable grounds" to believe the data is "relevant and material" to an ongoing investigation — a more lenient standard.
The prosecutors point to other cases, including that of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who received more lenient sentences for witness intimidation, false statements and obstruction of justice.
If our insurance hadn't paid for [part of] it, we would've had to go to Illinois [which doesn't have a waiting period and has more lenient rules after viability].
What is interesting to note is that the court of public opinion is clearly more lenient in its judgment of "husband halves" of a couple, at least in tone.
There is the possibility, however, that these customers might be driven to a competitor's more lenient family plan, like Apple Music or even Tidal, that doesn't demand location verification.
U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton in Newark, New Jersey, imposed the maximum sentence allowed under federal statute, despite pleas from Saadeh and his lawyer for a more lenient penalty.
It could move marijuana out of Schedule I (where it is categorized alongside heroin and LSD) to a more lenient category where it is permitted with a doctor's prescription.
Days after Alabama's government passed a near-total ban on abortion, President Donald Trump and other prominent Republican lawmakers are staking out their more lenient positions on the issue.
It is the American religious tradition writ large, as the story goes, that shapes the reaction to moral transgression, in contrast to the sharply more lenient attitude of Europeans.
Many advocates for more lenient policies have pushed for alternatives -- such as ankle monitors -- to detention for asylum seekers and others who are not deemed a danger to the public.
They could face years in prison, compared with a more lenient sentence for Mr. Baca under the plea, a disparity that has rankled some members of the law enforcement community.
Shanghai aluminum prices fell 2.1 percent in October, partly on expectations of more lenient curbs, and hit a two-year low of 13,790 yuan ($1,983) a ton on Nov. 6.
It was unclear what was behind the decision, but diplomats said they were hopeful it signaled a more lenient handling of the cases after months of lobbying by Western governments.
Maybe this'll teach them to make the kid's curfew just a bit more lenient so he doesn't have to go full Bueller the next time he stays out too late.
A lawyer for the state, urging the Supreme Court to take its appeal, said the photo ID law is more lenient than one upheld by the court eight years ago.
Each one offers a unique set of regulations, allowing corrupt owners and trainers to move racehorses from one jurisdiction to another to avoid penalties or to enjoy more lenient oversight.
If these changes mean that Facebook will be even more lenient to conservatives, particularly those who abuse the service to spread misinformation, its fake news problem will get even worse.
The defense also argued the information Bergdahl was able to provide upon his return -- and his willingness to share that information and cooperate with investigators -- warranted a more lenient sentence.
Clinton from criminal charges, insisted that she was not given special consideration by the F.B.I. nor held to a more lenient standard than a less prominent person would have been.
Prosecutors had also recommended a more lenient sentence is Huffman's case largely because she didn't enlist her daughter in the scheme — and also forked over less cash than other parents.
"They can keep a dress code that has the same rules but be more lenient toward the rules as long as what the person is wearing is acceptable," she said.
After Trump suggested on Twitter that the sentence sought by the Justice Department was too stiff, top DOJ officials overruled career prosecutors in order to seek a more lenient sentence.
But they have been more lenient with publishers based in the United States, out of concern that they will appear to be taking sides and stepping on the First Amendment.
The number of new cases of apathy declined in 2006, after the Migration Board took a more lenient approach, but the illness is still being diagnosed in dozens of children.
The news comes as nearly every major telecom firm is exploring mergers or other partnerships as the Trump administration signals a shift to a more lenient approach to antitrust policy.
Some people say the attitude toward the Trump children will be more lenient; others think that the Trump brand is irrevocably damaged and that the whole family will be pariahs.
The reduction will mostly be accomplished through more lenient sentencing practices: reducing mandatory minimums, less stiff sentences for drug crimes, and making inmates eligible for parole earlier in their prison stints.
Sunbelt Market Susceptible to Overbuilding: Offsetting MAA's strengths are the company's exposure to assets in markets with limited barriers to entry, given the availability of land and more lenient zoning regulations.
Marijuana's classification in the drug scheduling system is also a basis for other restrictions on it, although federal penalties for marijuana are typically more lenient than they are for other drugs.
But the agency's 624-page drone rulebook, published Tuesday, also left the door open for a separate, more lenient set of rules that would apply to the smallest drones out there.
Following a years-long probe that involved trawling millions of emails and thousands of recorded telephone conversations, the judgment was more lenient than the longer jail terms demanded by state prosecutors.
Castro is making a statement about what his immigration priorities would be as president — similar to those of the past two years of the Obama administration, if not even more lenient.
Handing responsibility for those curbs to provincial governments is risky though as regional authorities may set more lenient targets than Beijing desires, putting economic growth and jobs over the pollution battle.
Curbelo's bill is more lenient on oil producers, repealing the federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel, which would largely offset the price increases to these fuels caused by carbon tax.
"We have a long history of successful multiple use of federal lands and oceans," argues Belcher, whose CEA organization supports a more lenient leasing policy for drilling in the eastern Gulf.
An editorial on June 12 about terrorists' trying to take advantage of more lenient gun control in the United States misstated identification requirements for buying guns online or at gun shows.
In 2014 he directed the Justice Department to systematically review cases of people serving out sentences that would be far shorter had they been convicted under new, more lenient sentencing laws.
The team of assistant U.S. attorneys withdrew from the case after the Justice Department overruled their sentencing recommendation and pushed for a more lenient punishment for President Trump's former campaign adviser.
The team of assistant U.S. attorneys withdrew from the case after the Justice Department overruled their sentencing recommendation and pushed for a more lenient punishment for President Trump's former campaign adviser.
The Obama administration — using clemency, discretion and more lenient sentencing laws — has undone many of that era's policies and helped reduce the federal prison population for the first time in decades.
In mock trials, the Tufts University researcher Samuel Sommers has found, racially diverse juries appraise evidence more accurately than all-white juries, which translates to more lenient treatment of minority defendants.
But he will have to grapple with the likelihood that post-impeachment elections in South Korea this May will empower a new leadership with a much more lenient approach toward Pyongyang.
While the Obama administration allowed "hardship exemptions" to the mandate, the Trump administration could conceivably interpret the requirement in a more lenient way, so that more people would not be penalized.
The new photos are only the latest of Stormi's adorable face since Jenner and Scott got a bit more lenient with their decision not to show her full visage on social media.
It is a slightly more lenient version of the extremely controversial "travel ban" he issued in February -- Iraq has been exempted, leaving six instead of seven Muslim-majority countries on the list.
Taking these steps would show regulators that Zuckerberg isn't just paying lip service in hopes of getting a more lenient sentence — it would demonstrate he's ready to make change that serves society.
In the wake of those incidents, European assets have become increasingly attractive for Chinese investors, who, despite recent tightening, still view Europe's regulatory environment as more lenient, one of the people said.
And on the eve of the competition the Court of Arbitration for Sport said that 28 others should receive a more lenient penalty from the IOC, further muffling the anti-doping message.
And several troubled banks have been permitted to expand credit after a more lenient official was put in charge of their regulator, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country's central bank.
During his presidential campaign, Trump called Saucier's punishment an injustice, saying it was especially egregious compared to federal authorities' more lenient treatment of Hillary Clinton's email server and handling of classified information.
But car accidents are frequently cited as an example that injustice persists, with "Bangkok's deadly rich kids," as one Thai newspaper described it, often receiving far more lenient sentences than ordinary Thais.
Despite widespread skepticism about its effectiveness, a number of countries have employed it as a punishment for convicted sex offenders and pedophiles, in many cases in exchange for more lenient prison sentences.
Earlier this week, California legislators closed a loophole that allowed for more lenient sentences in sexual assault cases where the victim did not resist, such as instances where the person was unconscious.
But this year's restrictions are expected to be more lenient than during the winter of 2017 after China allowed local governments to set their own production limits instead of implementing blanket curbs.
After critics called that decision retaliatory, pointing out that other films with explicit sex scenes had received more lenient ratings, the authorities changed their minds and gave "Aquarius" a 16-plus rating.
The Gear Fit 2 still requires you to be still so it can take your pulse, but I noticed it's way more lenient with a shaky hand, than, say, my Apple Watch.
Jefferies reiterated its buy rating for 21st Century Fox shares, predicting Disney and Comcast will fight each other vigorously to acquire the company in a seemingly "more lenient regulatory environment" for mergers.
"My impression is we are a little more lenient now classifying things as storm related than they have been in the past, and certainly more fastidious in collecting the information," he said.
"It is very common for suppliers of firearms to obtain their supply from states with more lenient firearms laws, which are also known as source states," Kimberly Vesling, an F.B.I. agent, explained.
The government had told the jury that it would introduce other, supporting evidence to Mr. Howe's testimony, and that Mr. Howe had been cooperating in hopes of receiving a more lenient sentence.
Two months ago, he struck a plea deal with Robert Mueller, the special counsel — he pleaded guilty but agreed to provide full and truthful information in exchange for a more lenient sentence.
His past comments have largely been in line with more free-market-oriented Republican views, and he was widely expected to be more lenient on mergers than predecessors in the Obama administration.
OPINION An editorial on June 12 about terrorists' trying to take advantage of more lenient gun control in the United States misstated identification requirements for buying guns online or at gun shows.
Since weed does not grant internet access, it's possible for them to sneak it in, and maybe producers would be even more lenient finding weed on someone's person rather than a phone.
Gates&apos sentence is far more lenient than what sentencing guidelines recommended, and Jackson cited his extensive cooperation and decision to take responsibility for his actions as contributing factors in her decision.
Yasuyuki Takai, an attorney, former prosecutor and vocal defender of the current system, said the case had thrown into question a recent trend for courts to be more lenient in granting bail.
Instead, she said individuals would be assigned a case worker who would decide on nationality, and the burden of proof has been shifted so the government would take a more lenient approach.
It also allows the central bank to strike plea bargain agreements with financial firms that admit breaching the law in exchange for softer fines or more lenient prison terms for their executives.
Federal appeals courts already have more lenient standards than the Supreme Court, which is why the 9th Circuit was able to broadcast the arguments over the President's executive order on immigration last month.
BASEL (Reuters) - A 104-year-old Australian scientist killed himself in Switzerland on Thursday by lethal injection in an assisted suicide he hoped would trigger more lenient euthanasia laws in his home country.
In December 2018, Flynn went before Judge Emmet Sullivan in US District Court in DC with a more lenient sentencing suggestion from prosecutors than any other Mueller defendant -- little to no jail time.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - US leveraged lending guidelines could ease if a Wall Street-friendly Trump administration tells regulators to take a more lenient line on enforcing the rules, bankers, investors and lawyers said.
What works in Utah, which is generally regarded as a more lenient state when it come to insurance regulation, may not work in California, which is seen as one of the strictest states.
I was raised in a culture where parents were so much more lenient with boys than they were girls, so I want to make a point of treating them as fairly as possible.
Slim stops short of calling Sweden's treatment of A$AP racist ... but he did call out Swedish authorities for being far more lenient when white rapper G-Eazy got in trouble over there.
"Local governments also tend to be more lenient on policy implementation when they are given flexibility, especially since increasing steel production will help boost jobs and add to government tax revenues," she said.
The agency's upcoming restructuring of its regional offices appears designed to overhaul existing enforcement policies and chains of command, likely bolstering political leadership's ability to push reduced regional enforcement and more lenient compliance.
Doing so would have delayed a resolution by forcing a court case that likely would have resulted in more lenient sanctions against the company than the FTC achieved in its settlement, he said.
While sentencing guidelines called for a term of between more than seven years in prison up to nine years, Mr. Smith said that politicians convicted of similar crimes had received more lenient sentences.
Because the dollar amounts are different, Huffman, 56, faced less jail time than Loughlin — and she received a more lenient sentence after she pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
In the process, he's sent a message that convicts with associates who are close to the President politically -- or who can get on Fox News -- will enjoy a more lenient form of justice.
On Tuesday, at the president's urging, the Department of Justice recommended a more lenient prison sentence for Stone, who was convicted of obstructing a congressional investigation into Russian meddling in the 2242 election.
The group's chief demand was for American military personnel accused of crimes against Korean civilians to fall under the jurisdiction of the Korean justice system, and not the more lenient U.S. military courts.
BRF, 12 of whose poultry plants remain banned by the European Union after Brussels found "deficiencies" in Brazil's control systems, ultimately agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for more lenient corporate fines.
But last spring, executives from the Big Three automakers went to the White House to ask for more lenient emissions rules, kicking off an effort by the administration to roll back those standards.
"I take a back seat to no one in my commitment to diversity and inclusion," he said, making the case that this year's debate thresholds are even more lenient than in years past.
It's not their stated goal, but these so-called online "fast lanes" can't be completely outlawed under the more lenient approaches to net neutrality advocated by broadband providers at the Federal Communications Commission.
While Francis's supporters defend his decision to, essentially, separate out (more rigid) church doctrine from (more lenient) parish practice, his critics argue that doing so threatens the moral consistency of the Catholic Church.
This means that parents can now be a bit more lenient when their tweens need to hit up Wikipedia while doing their homework, or when they'd like to tackle some modules on Khan Academy.
Leases typically cover some regular wear and tear, and dealerships may be even more lenient if you're signing a new lease or they otherwise think you're a good prospect for future business, said Nerad.
One way or another, the sceptic's departure will affect relations between the German priest and the Greek sinner; the priest will either become slightly more lenient (as Mr Tsoukalis predicts) or perhaps even stricter.
Dr. Teresia O'Connor, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine, who researches childhood nutrition and obesity, wonders whether parents tend to be more lenient with behavioral rules in the summer.
The testimony could be critical to Mr. Caspersen's attempt to persuade Judge Rakoff to impose a more lenient sentence than the more than 15 years in prison that federal prosecutors have said is appropriate.
Some of the policies were even more lenient: One bride said she gave plus-ones to anyone she knew was in a serious relationship, regardless of whether they were living together, engaged, or married.
Less restrictive regulations in the United States could provide an opening for automakers to push for more lenient standards elsewhere as well, leading to the emission of more pollution by cars around the world.
It's in large part due to a decision by the US Sentencing Commission, an independent judicial agency, to guide judges to give more lenient sentences for drug crimes, both retroactively and in the future.
But defense lawyers have continued to press for details of what happened to their clients and to be able to use the information either to fight the charges or to win more lenient sentencing.
In contrast to Mr. Sessions's views on drug crimes, the Obama administration pushed for more lenient and flexible sentencing laws and presided over the first decline in the federal prison population in a generation.
Until now, banks could be more lenient with their energy clients despite a prolonged slump in the price of oil, but Doug Petno, the head of JP Morgan's commercial bank, said that is changing.
Over the past year, Trump intervened in the military-justice system on behalf of multiple U.S. soldiers who faced charges for war crimes to give them more lenient treatment or clear them of wrongdoing.
Timothy CicconeWilliston Park, N.Y. To the Editor: The states that will likely be affected by these more lenient pollution rules seem to overwhelmingly be the very states that went for Donald Trump in 2016.
The reversal raises the possibility that La Barbie obtained a guarantee of a more lenient sentence, following a method frequently used by US authorities with high-profile drug lords who are taken into US custody.
"We are examining the creation of a path with more lenient regulation that suits this range - similar to the U.S. Reg A," Hauser said during a speech at the Globes business conference in Tel Aviv.
Although many employers may hope the Department of Labor (DOL) will be more lenient this year, it's unlikely that this will be the case — employers have had two years to prepare, plus added delay time.
Previously more lenient on accepting migrants, Faymann has come under pressure from his conservative coalition partners and the far-right Freedom Party, which is supported by around a third of people surveyed in opinion polls.
Mr. Erdogan's Islamist party, Justice and Development, operating in a majority-Muslim country, took a more lenient approach to minority rights in the early 2000s, when Turkey was actively pursuing membership in the European Union.
Linda Poust-Lopez recently took over as the judge at the Bronx HTIC, and according to a lawyer familiar with the court, under her tenure the court has begun offering far more lenient plea bargains.
They will be under pressure from moderate GOP senators and Democrats to make fundamental revisions to their bill, but any move to make it more lenient toward or address undocumented immigration could erode conservative support.
Judge Marks, who spoke as the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges because judges are otherwise barred from speaking to the news media, tends to be more lenient than some of her colleagues.
Today there are still federal guidelines, which sentencing reform advocates say are overly harsh, but the Booker decision meant that judges now have significantly more discretion to issue sentences that are harsher or more lenient.
For example, Philadelphia had the biggest sentencing disparity compared to other cities (63.8 percent), but much of that disparity was driven by judges handing down sentences that were significantly more lenient than the city average.
Before Mr. Delrahim took office, his comments were largely in line with more free-market-oriented Republican views, and he was widely expected to be more lenient on mergers than predecessors in the Obama administration.
Craft stores like Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and Joann Fabrics are fighting to stay open in states with more lenient definitions of "essential" business, highlighting troubling inconsistencies in the US approach to curbing the coronavirus outbreak.
Bob Cordran, partner at international law firm Dorsey & Whitney, said companies may also be forced to become more lenient about working from home, with some workers having to take on childcare duties amid school closures.
Yet documents obtained from Vance's office by one of Hadden's accusers through a public records request and shared with CNN show that prosecutors were initially prepared to accept an even more lenient agreement with Hadden.
The only conceivable beneficiaries of Mr. Pruitt's scheme — the automakers, whose trade groups and lobbyists have been pressuring the White House for more lenient rules — may not be all that crazy about the plan, either.
Automakers fear that a rift between Washington and Sacramento will split the domestic market between California and 13 other states enforcing one standard and the rest of the states following the more lenient federal standards.
An analysis of enforcement data by The New York Times shows that the administration has adopted a more lenient approach than the previous two administrations — Democratic and Republican — toward polluters like those in East Liverpool.
So perhaps the new repair policy is a way to show that they're willing to have a more lenient and open stance about device repair, as long as their customers always come back to the mothership. 
However, over the past two weeks, coinciding with Liu's departure, the U.S. attorney's office has changed its sentencing stances in both Flynn and Stone's cases, with prosecutors moving from stiffer sentencing recommendations to more lenient ones.
The temporary release last month of three of the women and the case's earlier transfer from a high-security terrorism court without explanation suggested a possibly more lenient handling after months of lobbying by Western governments.
Eventual consistency is essentially a more lenient system where, over time, all the nodes don't update simultaneously and instead come to agree on a value only after there hasn't been any recent update for a while.
But Wendover Production has done a good job explaining the nuance of maritime law and how ships duck the law by registering their boats in different countries where taxes are lower or have more lenient laws.
AT&T is just the latest to challenge the FCC's ruling, but with a new, and likely more lenient administration — at least on net neutrality — the bet to go against the FCC may just pay off.
Mr Tusk's great fear was that other countries would seek their own special treatment during the renegotiation: a carve-out from climate rules for the Poles, say, or a more lenient fiscal regime for the periphery.
Even if all that fails, many of the people who voted to impeach Ms. Rousseff on Sunday hope that judges will be more lenient when they are not subject to public pressure and extensive media coverage.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. derivatives regulator plans to encourage companies and individuals to report their own wrongdoing and cooperate with investigators in return for more lenient penalties, the watchdog's director of enforcement said on Monday.
Defense attorney points to Trump's rhetoric Jim Pratt, Stein's attorney, had asked for a more lenient sentence for his client because of Donald Trump's rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign and the public mood against Muslims.
Unlike Spain, Rome refused an EU-funded bailout for its banks when European rules for doing so were more lenient, and for too long failed to take decisive action to deal with its lenders' bad loans.
When Congress created a more lenient standard for "light trucks" as a detour around corporate average fuel efficiency standards in the 1970s, the stage was set for a full cast of trucks masquerading as passenger vehicles.
It remains to be seen how voters will react to her new stance on super PACs, announced in the eleventh hour before Super Tuesday, and whether the more lenient stance might cost her at the polls.
But as demand began to falter this month, mills were left with surplus steel, compounded by more lenient production curbs this winter as China allowed regions to set their own output restrictions based on emission levels.
The watchdogs said they expect the bloc's national regulators to "generally apply their risk-based supervisory powers in their day-to-day enforcement" in a proportionate manner — effectively giving cover to be more lenient in some cases.
The Navy is more lenient than the Marines about tattoo locations -- it allows sailors to have neck tattoos, full sleeve tattoos and does not restrict the size or amount of body art below the elbow or knee.
Former Smallville actor Allison Mack, who was arrested in April for her involvement in Keith Raniere's alleged sex cult, has asked for more lenient bail restrictions so she can work again while she awaits her upcoming trial.
The decree announced this week also would allow the central bank to strike plea-bargain agreements with financial firms that admit breaching the law in exchange for softer fines or more lenient prison terms for their executives.
"You could have someone that becomes a little bit more lenient because it's so tight out there to hire employees, that's for sure," said Mucci, whose company provides small and medium-sized businesses with various administrative solutions.
GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's ruling Hamas movement executed three Palestinians on Thursday convicted of collaborating with Israel, hanging the men during a campaign to persuade any Israeli-recruited agents to come forward in return for more lenient punishment.
The companies' backers at the U.S. Chamber focused their policy arguments on the proliferation of Securities Act suits in state courts, where pleading standards may be less rigorous and discovery rules more lenient than in federal court.
As a result of the ruling, Wall Street analysts are questioning whether Disney will be able to close its announced acquisition of assets from 21st Century Fox due to the seemingly more lenient regulatory environment for mergers.
Hedge funds, despite posting their best start to the year since 2013, with an average return of 4.9%, have still struggled to outperform the general market, pushing investors to demand greater transparency and more lenient fee structures.
As police chased graffiti artists from their canvasses of choice in the city's subway depots, tunnels, and bridges, they began to take refuge in arrangements that relied on the kindness of more lenient and enlightened property owners.
The state regulator (the CPUC) was likely to be more lenient too, since regulating for-hire transportation was a minor concern in relation to its far greater responsibilities for overseeing energy, telecommunications and oil and gas transmission.
The Keefe Bruyette & Woods analysts said they had concluded that regulators were not likely to become more lenient about how much capital banks need to set aside, which could prove a long-term drag on Citigroup's returns.
"Even restaurants with a strong expectation that everybody will order a full meal tend to be more lenient at the bar, where nobody will raise an eyebrow if you eat a steak, pay and leave," he advised.
People whose risk of heart attack or stroke is less than 10 percent will be told to aim for blood pressure below 140/1803, a more lenient standard, and to take medications if necessary to do so.
Though plea bargains were introduced in 22019, their use is limited to categories such as corporate malfeasance, according to Colin Jones, a law professor at Doshisha University, although defendants who cooperate can expect a more lenient sentence.
Ms. Mark-Viverito began talks over the changes in 2015, with proponents heralding the proposal as an important criminal justice reform and critics warning that the more lenient approach would result in a decline in public order.
Senior officials at the department, including Mr. Barr, overrode the recommendation the next day with a more lenient one, immediately prompting accusations of political interference, and the four lawyers on the Stone case abruptly withdrew in protest.
According to sources close to the talks, EU lenders have been more lenient during the review than the IMF, which has said Greece will need far bigger debt relief than euro zone partners have been prepared to envisage.
Downbeat Republicans no closer to health care deal, but ready to vote next week A debate sparked last week about whether the dress code should change, with critics arguing it's an antiquated rule that should made more lenient.
More popular is Square Cash, which has a more lenient TOS that doesn't explicitly ban sex, and a direct-to-bank account deposit and withdrawal system, which minimizes the risk of the service seizing a sex worker's funds.
Wanting to keep the population of the Channel Islands pacified and use the success of the occupation as a propaganda coup against Britain, German forces were considerably more lenient in their treatment of the local population than elsewhere.
One trend the committee noted was the more common use of the penal code in trying free speech cases instead of the more lenient publishing code, which has had no provision for imprisonment since a reform in 2016.
At the heart of their conflict is immigration, which Orban rejects as an existential threat to the continent, while Soros has promoted a more lenient policy mix, including controlled immigration and aid to migrants in Europe and at home.
LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The European Union has suggested that national regulators could be more lenient in how they enforce a rule from January that requires banks and other market participants to post cash on hedges against currency swings.
No photographs or recording devices were allowed, and reporters were not permitted to use the names of employees or speak with the teens living at the camp — though HHS was more lenient on the last rule during Friday's tour.
Ironically, the news of the sludge leak comes after the New York Times revealed that, under the Trump administration, the EPA has taken a more lenient approach to enforcing federal laws regarding pollution than the Obama and Bush administrations.
One obvious reason: You don't have the same level of obligation to your nieces and nephews as their parent, so you're expected to be more lenient when it comes to rules and more generous when it comes to gifts.
According to sources close to the talks EU lenders have been more lenient during the review than the IMF, which has said that Greece will need far bigger debt relief than euro zone partners have been prepared to envisage.
Although he has not been accused of wrongdoing, people close to the matter have said his exit reflects an accelerated, board-driven clearout designed to present a new face to investigators in the hope of winning more lenient settlements.
But the telecom is calling its new drone business Airborne LTE Operations (ALO) and hopes unmanned aerial vehicles could provide a revenue stream when FAA regulations are more lenient and piloting becomes a more mainstream commercial and hobbyist activity.
Yeats's great late poems make a profound "contribution" to literature and even to our understanding of ourselves, but no one says that on that account we should take a more lenient view of his yearning for an Irish Mussolini.
That may bolster China hawks in the U.S. government who see Huawei as a real national security risk, over those who seek a more lenient policy to appease Beijing amid ongoing trade talks between the world's two biggest economies.
This would force the S.E.C. to decide whether its evidence is strong enough to win before the in-house judge or take the case into federal court with its more lenient standard of proof but then face a jury.
At some of the forums, Mr. Lasak, who served as the head of Mr. Brown's major crimes unit, has appeared uncomfortable when asked whether he would be more lenient on prosecuting certain crimes, like those who pay for sex.
Before the fire, the cladding had been banned in the United States and some European countries because it was too combustible, but English building rules were more lenient, opening the door to its use on hundreds of high-rises.
At a news conference, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly said he would follow the president's order to clarify some clauses of the bill, although he defended it as more lenient than the current Dutch colonial-era laws.
Citing a range of factors, including Mr. Scott's behavior and the risk of prison abuse against Mr. Slager, the defense lawyers also argued that the judge should vary from the guidelines and impose a more lenient sentence than that.
As Tangshan mills ramp up steel output to chase strong prices, other producers could follow and supply from Hebei province - where Tangshan is located - could rise as it enforces more lenient cuts, said Richard Lu, an analyst at CRU consultancy.
That's largely due to a decision by the US Sentencing Commission, an independent judicial agency, to guide judges to give, both retroactively and in the future, more lenient sentences for drug crimes — freeing thousands of federal prisoners in the process.
" Kardashian has previously advocated for balance when it comes to eating, sharing on her website, "When I'm traveling (and sometimes on the weekend), I'll cheat — I'm a little more lenient now than I was when I first started this whole thing.
The auto executives urged the government to cut taxes on cars and auto components to 18% from 28% and sought help to prod banks to lower lending rates and make the loan terms more lenient, one of the sources said.
Women can be murdered for cheating with minimal repercussions In Egypt, a man can kill his wife and get off with a far more lenient punishment than is typically given for murder, if he catches her in an act of adultery.
The principal point of the earlier film was that a specialist, Adam C. Winfield, who received a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to manslaughter deserved more lenient treatment because he had tried to blow the whistle on his fellow soldiers.
But using Chicago as an example doesn't work: its regulations have been scaled back, its gun violence is affected by more lenient laws in other states and its punishments are not always tough on gun crime, potentially enabling repeat offenders.
Instead, the most impactful change could be to shift the more lenient officers — those who are less likely to give out a lot of harsh traffic tickets — to places with larger minority populations to counteract the effects of racial bias.
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's white-collar crimes police unit on Tuesday established a telephone hotline for people seeking to confess to tax evasion linked to the Panama Papers documents leak and said those who come forward could expect more lenient treatment.
The policy is a shift away from the more lenient approach of past presidents of both parties, who largely reserved criminal charges for repeat offenders and other more serious cases, which allowed first-time offenders to remain with their kids.
In every neighborhood where air quality data was available, particle levels were at least four times the limit, putting most areas in the hazardous range by Indian standards, which are more lenient than those set by the World Health Organization.
In exchange for a more lenient sentence than he might otherwise have faced if tried and convicted, Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 21, pleaded guilty last year to a charge of attempting to provide material support, namely himself, to a terrorist organization.
Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian incorporate their businesses and register their ships in countries that have lower corporate taxes and more lenient labor laws than the US, like Panama and Bermuda, Jim Walker, a maritime lawyer for Walker and O'Neill, said.
But defense lawyer Peter Brauti pleaded for a sentence more lenient than the mandatory four or five years, and tried to keep his client, who has still been collecting a pay cheque as an officer, out of a jail cell.
Debt-financed spending by the new bodies would come under the more lenient rules of the EU's Stability and Growth Pact, the sources said, giving Germany more room to take advantage of historically low borrowing costs to boost its flagging economy.
Mr. Gates had been charged along with Mr. Manafort in the case, but pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Mr. Manafort in exchange for the dismissal of a host of other charges and the possibility of a more lenient sentence.
In cases where businesses were solely impacted by the coronavirus — like airlines, cruise ships, and restaurants — attorneys said lenders and landlords had become more lenient in light of the crisis and they didn't expect large bankruptcy filings in the immediate future.
Though corporate America assumed that a Trump presidency would be more lenient toward deal-making, it has maintained an aggressiveness in regulating mergers, according to Norman Armstrong Jr., the co-head of the antitrust practice at the law firm King & Spalding.
Sanchez said the newcomers were also exploring decriminalizing marijuana for recreational use, saying it no longer made sense for Mexican authorities to engage in a violent struggle against the drug when Canada and several U.S. states had adopted more lenient policies.
Or was it just political theater to improve his standing within the Justice Department, after four career prosecutors resigned from the case in disgust when higher-ups in the department intervened to recommend a more lenient sentence for Roger Stone?
The decision by automakers to strike a deal with California on emissions standards, in defiance of the Trump administration, which favors more lenient standards, reflects a judgment that the march toward higher fuel economy will continue after this brief intermission.
But authorities in the world's top steel producer are taking a more lenient stance on emissions while the Chinese economy sputters, allowing mills room to cut costs by using more lower, cheaper grades of ore and fewer high-grade supplies.
This has led to suspicions from Republican Trump that Chinese President Xi Jinping is trying to wait until the November 2020 presidential election to see if Trump gets defeated by a Democratic candidate who might be more lenient toward Beijing.
It's part of the left's war on the right MORE's order in 2013 urging federal prosecutors to be more lenient with nonviolent low level drug offenders and reserve the harshest charges for violent criminals and the leaders of drug cartels.
Trial magistrate June Cheung Tin-ngan said the case was atypical, in that it called for a more lenient and understanding attitude, since the three were young pro-democracy student leaders who expressed demands based on genuinely held political ideals.
While the producers seem to be more lenient when it comes to how well liked the lead for The Bachelor is (ahem, Colton), they usually cast one of the most liked women in the house and on social media for The Bachelorette.
Boeckmann was accused of verbally abusing people -- mostly women and minorities -- in his courtroom, failing to recuse himself from cases involving business partners of his family, and offering young white men more lenient rulings in court if they agreed to perform sexual favors.
Instead of classifying internet providers as "common carriers" under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, they'll instead be classified as "information services" under Title I. That'll subject them to much more lenient oversight — and naturally, internet providers are happy to hear it.
The mysterious donation made national news at the time, though a source close to Jacobson later told CNN he'd sent the winning game piece in the hopes that the good deed might secure him a more lenient sentence should he ever be caught.
Taking advantage of the random assignment of judges—some of whom are more lenient than others—also let the researchers isolate the unique effect of eviction on measures such as credit scores, debt loads, use of payday lenders and neighbourhood poverty levels.
But the US is far more lenient when it comes to market competition than Europe, which is partly why companies like Google and Facebook have been able to grow to such immense size and influence with little to no impediments from regulators.
And, judging by a meme that's making its rounds on social media (spotted on BuzzFeed), scores of them have discovered one key difference between high school and college — that college professors tend to be a lot more lenient than high school teachers.
We also know how they lose: According to a 2017 report from the Center for Reproductive Rights, states with aggressive abortion restrictions — 10 or more, for the study's purposes — had higher maternal, infant, and child mortality rates than their more lenient counterparts.
"Steel output will remain at a high level in the coming months, with more lenient production restrictions at major steelmaking cities in summer and expectations of robust demand from construction sites," Zhuo Guiqiu, an analyst from Jinrui Futures, said before data was released.
PONTA GROSSA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian federal prosecutors probing whether chicken processor BRF SA and certain laboratories colluded to cheat on food safety tests are seeking cooperation from the firms in return for more lenient penalties, a federal prosecutor told Reuters in an interview.
But the case of Yu Huan, who on Friday had his life sentence cut to five years following a retrial, has also prompted debate about whether widespread public anger over the initial verdict had a bearing on the much more lenient final outcome.
In addition to allowing for major funding for border control, any successful immigration reform bill will have to allow for a waiting period for those security efforts to be built and kick in before any other more lenient reforms go into effect.
With the Republican-controlled Congress's attempts to roll back laws introduced in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis largely stalled, banks are looking to regulators, particularly the U.S. central bank, to loosen the reins through rule tweaks and more lenient supervision.
Why it matters: There hasn't been any indication that enforcement will be that stringent — regulators have indicated they'll be more lenient in the beginning than businesses realize — but ominous press coverage and the fear of heavy penalties has been enough to rattle industry.
If the Trump administration really stuck to deporting or detaining "criminal illegal immigrants" — if it didn't deport any unauthorized immigrant who hadn't been convicted of a crime — it would be more lenient than the Obama administration has ever been toward the unauthorized.
Mr. Flynn, who served briefly as the president's national security adviser, is the only White House aide and the first person from the president's inner circle to strike a cooperation deal with the special counsel's office in exchange for a more lenient penalty.
Though Mr. Cohen faces a maximum of 65 years in prison, the plea agreement provides for a far more lenient sentence: The government calculated the sentencing guidelines at from 51 to 63 months and the defense put them at 46 to 57 months.
Those stiffer punishments had been sought by Hong Kong's Beijing-backed government, which was unhappy with more lenient sentences by a lower court two years ago of community service for Mr. Wong and Mr. Law and a suspended jail term for Mr. Chow.
TOKYO, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Carlos Ghosn's daring flight from Japan, where he was awaiting trial on charges of financial wrongdoing, has revived global criticism of the nation's "hostage justice," but in Japan is prompting talk of reversing more lenient curbs on defendants.
A federal law, passed last year, directs the agency to remove barriers to approving drugs and medical devices, and its new commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, has called on the F.D.A. to be more lenient, especially when it comes to rare pediatric diseases.
A new boss, Timothy Shea, had just arrived and had told them on his first day that he wanted a more lenient recommendation for Mr. Stone, and he pushed back hard when they objected, according to two people briefed on the dispute.
They pointed to a smaller number of polls over the eight-week qualifying period — which included lengthy breaks over both the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays — and a weeks-long early state polling drought, urging the DNC to make the polling thresholds more lenient.
The powerful duo of Germany and France oppose granting more visa-free movement before the bloc has beefed up an emergency mechanism that will allow the swift suspension of more lenient travel rules in the event of a sharp increase in immigration.
The four federal prosecutors from Stone's trial abruptly withdrew from the case this week after Trump complained about the seven-to-nine-year sentencing recommendation they submitted and Attorney General Bill Barr ordered that proposal withdrawn in favor of a more lenient sentence.
She welcomed his decision on Saturday night to back a bill in Congress rescinding portions of a law giving gunmakers immunity from lawsuits, but said his record showed a more lenient attitude toward the demands of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby.
The APA has made a drastic change in its position since this past presidential campaign, going against its previous interpretations of the Goldwater rule, which was becoming more lenient, turning it essentially into a gag order on any comment on public figures at all.
Some have been a little more lenient, hoping that he's learned from this experience and has had a change of heart on major cultural issues, such as BLM and the treatment of hundreds of migrant children who were separated from their families at the border.
If the bill picks up any traction (and it's new enough that we don't know yet if it will) it's likely to be watered down over time as lawmakers with a more lenient view of how big tech should be regulated look it over.
The measures are much more lenient than during the 2017/18 winter, when China imposed a 30 percent output curb on aluminum and alumina production in 28 northern cities, including Liaocheng, located in Shandong province, for the four-month heating season to reduce air pollution.
There's also James Clyburn, the legendary House Democrat who bizarrely suggested the standards of behavior for elected officials were more lenient than for other people—and that Conyers's accusers were racist, before finally getting it right by joining Pelosi in calling for his resignation Thursday.
Wire said that the rise of social media and an evolution within sports organizations like the NFL and the NBA, where coaches and owners are "more lenient" on players speaking out, have encouraged more athletes to take a stand on social and politics issues.
Those at the senior level, as well as those with high-level connections, often receive far more lenient punishments than the rank and file, and if Snowden had left it at that we would likely be in an agreement in our criticism of Petraeus.
Valeria Fazio, the prosecutor at the Genoa court where the trial was held, said in a telephone interview that her office understood that Mr. Ostriakov had stolen only out of need, and had appealed in hopes that the court might set a more lenient sentence.
The proposal would allow banks with less than $250 billion in assets and less than $10 billion in foreign exposure – typically those that do not use the Basel II advanced capital approaches - to keep operating under more lenient capital rules beyond the beginning of 2018.
Speaking to German media group Funke, Weidmann said inflation was well on its way to meeting the ECB's target, taking a more lenient view on price stability than ECB President Mario Draghi, and exposing a rift in the Governing Council in interpreting the ECB's mandate.
Since then, I have become much more lenient to those who don't invite me to events, because I realize that it isn't something personal against me, it could be as simple as it skipped their mind, or they weren't allowed to invite many people.
Mr. Kushner has championed reforms to the corrections system and more lenient federal sentencing, and Mr. Sessions, a law-and-order conservative and former Alabama attorney general, has opposed significant parts of the bipartisan prison reform bill that Mr. Kushner backs, according to officials.
The Obama administration sees that trend as a reflection of more lenient and sensible approaches to sentencing, and in recent months, Justice Department officials have moved ahead with initiatives meant to provide "second chances" for criminal offenders and ease their path back to their communities.
In doing so, he has contributed to a crisis at the Department of Justice, where all four prosecutors in his case, who initially recommended a harsh sentence, withdrew from the case after Attorney General William Barr intervened and advocated for a more lenient sentence.
Klas: Florida's gun laws have gotten more lenient for the last decade as the conservative majority, pushed by gun rights groups, have passed so-called "stand your ground" laws and measures to prevent counties and cities from passing stricter gun laws than the state.
It's part of the left's war on the right MORE issued in 2013 under President Obama that urged federal prosecutors to be more lenient with nonviolent, low-level drug offenders and reserve the harshest charges for violent criminals and the leaders of drug cartels.
"Some current and former employees are suggesting that the scarcity of women at the upper echelons of Amazon could have made the company more lenient toward Mr. Price until his actions became a public relations embarrassment," The New York Times reported on Friday evening.
News' Mom2Mom, Tamera Mowry-Housley shares that while she tries to make sure that she and her husband Adam Housley are the only ones who sleep in their bed at night, he tends to be more lenient when it comes to letting their two children stay.
Whether or not Microsoft and its more lenient policies can succeed where Apple failed is still up for debate, but taking all the recent news from the company together, it's clear that the Windows Store is going to be a major focus point for Microsoft going forward.
McDonald, a former prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who was appointed to the CFTC role in March, has said he aims to achieve that by encouraging companies and staff to report their own wrongdoing and cooperate with investigators in return for more lenient penalties.
And the proposed changes — modest though they might seem in the context of the legislative process — reinforce one of the myths of criminal justice that does the most damage to prospects of reform: the idea that the US should only get more lenient toward "nonviolent" offenders.
DUBAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Top global oil exporter Saudi Arabia is looking at new ways to sell crude to China, offering more cargoes at spot prices and more lenient payment terms after losing ground in the world's fastest-growing oil import market to Angola, Russia and others.
Those who want to see the U.S. stay in the accord or renegotiate its terms to be more lenient include Tillerson, senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, daughter Ivanka Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, economic adviser Gary Cohn and national security adviser H.R. McMaster.
Amazon abandoned a recruiting algorithm after it was shown to favor men's resumes over women's; researchers concluded an algorithm used in courtroom sentencing was more lenient to white people than to black people; a study found that mortgage algorithms discriminate against Latino and African American borrowers.
The increase in legalization support comes as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Republican who has frequently criticized the use of marijuana, hasn't yet announced whether he'll continue to abide by more lenient Obama-era guidance and avoid enforcing federal law in states that have legalized the drug.
The probability is very high that Flynn told Mueller the exact details of the pardon discussion with Dowd while he was finalizing his agreement with Mueller, which would have significantly increased his value to Mueller and resulted in more lenient terms for the plea deal being offered.
An analysis by The New York Times last year found that Mr. Ponte and other top jail officials received more lenient treatment than their subordinates when discipline was meted out through the correction department's internal disciplinary process, or, in Mr. Ponte's case, by the mayor's office.
"Rather than forcing retailers to impose stricter return policies such as 'no receipt, no return' or 14-day limits on returns, the system actually allows retailers to offer the other 99 percent of consumers more lenient and flexible return policies," the company says on its website.
The family of the dead man, Federico Pereira, and his supporters were outraged, contending that Mr. Brown had made a political calculation that a more lenient stance toward the police would help his chances of winning a full term in a special election later in 19733.
McDonald, a former prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who was appointed to the CFTC role in March, has said he aims to achieve that by encouraging companies and staff to report their own wrongdoing and cooperate with investigators, in return for more lenient penalties.
In the last six months, Uber drivers have gained the ability to see a rider's destination before they accept a trip, access to Uber Pro (a tiered loyalty scheme that rewards them for making more journeys on the platform), and a more lenient approach to driver deactivation.
But I do think housing is a great example of something where the long-term outcome would have been better if the Obama administration had been simultaneously more punitive on the banks and more lenient on homeowners and had just made that argument and fought for it.
Regarding Kimberly, I think that she was open to being interviewed in that she initially identified herself as Canadian to American officials in the desert when ISIS members were surrendering because she was under the impression that Canada would be more lenient to people like her.
The tariffs he just signed are a more lenient version of the ones he proposed last week — a sign that forceful criticism by scores of Republican lawmakers and threats of a trade war from the US's trading partners persuaded the president to try to soften the blow on imports.
I do remember Twitter being a bit more lenient with their handles back in the early days (I did successfully procure a couple of Twitter handles for various uses just by asking), but with the company growing and there being a stricter set of rules, things eventually changed.
EU authorities are concerned about a "race to the bottom" as financial services firms shift operations after Britain leaves the bloc in 2019, amid reports businesses are being set up that are effectively no more than postal addresses to take advantage of more lenient rules in some countries.
Since Higbee was a part of an antitrust team under President George W. Bush that was much more lenient about mergers than the Obama administration has been, many experts assume his addition to the Trump team casts doubts on Trump's more populist threats about breaking up monopolies like Amazon.
Mr. Wu's lawyers tried to argue for a more lenient sentence on the grounds that Mr. Wu had cooperated with officials investigating Mr. Bo. Ms. Gu, Mr. Bo's wife, is serving a life sentence, and Mr. Wang, the former Chongqing police chief, is serving a 15-year sentence.
And a New York Times investigation recently found that, under Mr. Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency has adopted a more lenient approach to polluters than the previous two administrations, with significant declines both in the number of overall cases filed, as well as in fines and environmental repairs.
The 2006 documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated cites some of the most salient critiques, including what some see as an over-emphasis on sexual content (particularly depictions of women's sexual pleasure) and a de-emphasis on violent content, which seems to often receive a more lenient rating.
Thursday's filing came after prosecutors working for Mueller said earlier this week that they no longer could agree to more lenient bail terms for Manafort after discovering that he was working with a colleague tied to Russian intelligence agencies on an opinion piece that cast his work in a favorable light.
Jackson stopped short of granting a request from Special Counsel Robert Mueller to deny Manafort's proposal for more lenient bail terms, saying she would take Manafort's proposal to lift his house arrest in exchange for posting four real estate properties as collateral under advisement and rule at a later date.
Given the symbolism many have attached to the pardons, the legal nuances of the Hammonds' case — specifically the five-year mandatory minimum sentences they were forced to serve after a judge initially handed down more lenient terms — will likely be lost, said Lewis and Clark School of Law professor Michael Blumm.
Earlier this month, Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he was unsure about the legal future of the Obama-era program, when in fact he could have directed his staff to be more lenient with stays of removal, adjudicate fairly, and take immigrant's hardships into account, Maldonado said.
But doing either can be difficult or ineffective for a cruise-ship worker because cruise lines often require workers to handle disputes through arbitration and incorporate their businesses in countries that have more lenient labor laws than the US, Jim Walker, a maritime lawyer for Walker and O'Neill, told Business Insider.
"Gates recalled Manafort saying the hack was likely carried out by the Ukrainians, not the Russians, which parroted a narrative Kilimnik often supported," reads a memo summarizing an April 2018 FBI interview with Gates, who cooperated with federal prosecutors and testified against Manafort in exchange for a more lenient sentence.
Op-Ed Contributors During the months after President Trump's election, Israel and many of its supporters in the United States cheered as he promised a new, warmer relationship, such as a more lenient approach to settlements in the West Bank and moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Joseph Doyle, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, used statistical methods to analyze the effect of foster care placement in so-called marginal cases — those in which a strict investigator might put a child in foster care, but a more lenient investigator might not.
But police also seem more lenient toward white suspects than their Hispanic and black counterparts: Cops warned suspects but did not fire in 40 percent of recorded stun gun incidents involving white people, but only avoided firing in 20 percent of incidents involving black suspects and 31 percent of incidents involving Hispanic suspects.
Here are a few options: • Try renting a condo: Individual condo owners tend to be more lenient about paperwork; while management companies might ask for six months or a year of rent up front, an individual might want just one extra month (although there may be an additional condo board application fee).
In a series of interviews, career prosecutors told The Times that they feared that Mr. Barr's decision to give Roger Stone, the president's longtime friend and former political adviser, a more lenient sentence after Mr. Trump weighed in on the case was undermining the department's reputation for upholding the law without bias.
The power of the president to procure more lenient prison sentences for lawbreakers has come under heightened scrutiny after the Justice Department last week overruled the sentencing recommendations of its own prosecutors in the obstruction and perjury case of Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime friend and informal adviser of Mr. Trump.
The filing comes after prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this week said they could no longer agree to more lenient bail terms for Manafort, after discovering he was working with a colleague tied to Russian intelligence agencies to ghost-write an opinion piece that cast his political work in a favorable light.
They're also demanding a more lenient sentence for local ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, who set fire to federal land in Oregon way back in 2001 and are now headed back to federal prison under a federal anti-terrorism statute that establishes a five-year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone convicted of arson on federal property.
Central to the challengers' arguments, presented Tuesday to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should have been more lenient in its 22019 rule because some states and areas have high ozone levels either naturally or because of pollution blows in from elsewhere -- factors that they cannot control.
Mr. Trump elicited those fears by denouncing federal prosecutors who had recommended a prison sentence of up to nine years for his longtime friend and political adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. Mr. Barr fanned them by scrapping the recommendation in favor of a far more lenient one, leading the prosecutors to quit the case in protest.
Central to the challengers' arguments, presented Tuesday to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should have been more lenient in its 2015 rule because some states and areas have high ozone levels either naturally or because of pollution blows in from elsewhere — factors that they cannot control.
Mainline churches today remain diverse but tend to share a cluster of overlapping values: They may endorse same-sex marriage in the church, hold more lenient views on extramarital sex, confess less exclusivist views of eternal salvation, and focus more political efforts toward Christian social relief rather than Christian moral teachings; many mainlines have formal fellowship agreements with one another.
"Despite Trump's campaign promise to block anti-competitive deals, such as the US$ 105.0bn AT&T/ Time Warner deal, his attitude once in office suggests a more lenient approach towards such high profile deals," the Mergermarket researcher noted, before turning to consider the role of Chinese policymakers, given their new scrutiny of foreign acquisitions valued at more than $2 billion.
In explaining the more lenient approach last month to the rank and file, the Police Department's internal order said the new policy was the result of a decision by the Manhattan district attorney's office to no longer prosecute people arrested for minor infractions such as swipe-begging, smoking in the subway, or taking up two seats on a subway car.
He tells me that he committed the attack while "monged off my face on meow" and has found the ready availability of drugs in prison to be something of an issue; he seems to genuinely not want to take them, and is aware that should he fail a drug test between now and his sentencing, it will harm his chances of a more lenient sentence.
Barr forced the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, whose office handled the case, to recommend a more lenient prison term than the seven to nine years that trial prosecutors in the case originally proposed early last week The four trial prosecutors quit the case in protest as the U.S. attorney filed a new sentencing memo a day after their own recommendation was filed.
Dallas Fuel player Timo "Taimou" Kettunen is being fined $1,000 for using "anti-gay slurs on his personal stream," while the Houston Outlaws' Tae-yeong "TaiRong" Kim has received a formal warning for posting a meme about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Blizzard says it was more lenient on Kim because he issued an unprompted apology and made a $1,000 donation to the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.
That source said JLR could make the office its European headquarters but the second source said JLR would retain its British HQ. A spokesman at the firm said: "Jaguar Land Rover is a British company and our headquarters will remain in the UK." JLR is Britain's biggest builder of high-end and premium models and is one of the many small and premium automakers benefiting from more lenient EU rules including on emissions, due to low sales volumes compared to mass manufacturers.
Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyAppropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions Graham moves controversial asylum bill through panel; Democrats charge he's broken the rules MORE (D-Vt.), Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) and Jeff MerkleyJeffrey (Jeff) Alan MerkleySenate Democrats push Trump to permanently shutter migrant detention facility Senate Dem seeks answers from DHS on reports of pregnant asylum seekers sent back to Mexico Schumer backs Pelosi as impeachment roils caucus MORE (D-Ore.) have reintroduced the Justice Safety Valve Act in response to the drastic shift from Obama-era guidelines, which urged prosecutors to crack down on violent criminals and leaders of drug cartels while being more lenient with nonviolent, low-level drug offenders.

No results under this filter, show 582 sentences.

Copyright © 2024 RandomSentenceGen.com All rights reserved.