Sentence examples for 1 leniency from inspiring English sources

The monitoring has raised alarm from civil liberties groups and some Arab-American and Muslim leaders. 1 Leniency Appeal for Brothers A grassroots campaign for Alex and Derek King, the teenage brothers facing life in prison for murdering their father, is being used to press for changes in state laws that allow children to be prosecuted as adults.

One reason is that lone parents do not have to look for work until their youngest child is 16 a leniency that few other countries emulate.The main reform proposed in Mr Freud's review is to reduce this age to 12 as soon as practicable, most likely in 2010.

That is not always the case with the traditional systems, where the police officer can behave like a "judge" by being able to modulate tolerance margins and thus establishing the legality or otherwise of certain speeds [36] or by showing leniency [13, 31].

B1 EDUCATION B9 DINING OUT F1-14 SPORTSWEDNESDAY D1-7 OBITUARIES A21 ARTS E1-10 GRatingsRatings Leniency A study from Harvard found that a decade of "ratings creep" has allowed more violent and sexually explicit content into films, suggesting that movie raters have grown more lenient in their standards.

Judge Denise Cote of United States District Court said the man, Deric Frank, 26, deserved leniency for testifying at the trial of his accomplice, Jesse Earl Bailey, 47, who was convicted and sentenced in October to life in prison.

Firstlook's founder, Pierre Omidyar, who also started eBay, PayPal's parent company, was quoted at the time as saying the 14 deserved leniency.

The recently updated guidelines of the Joint National Committee on the Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC8) recommended greater leniency in treating hypertension in individuals over the age of 60.

B3 Victim Requests Leniency Matthew Propp, who was kidnapped as an infant in Queens two decades ago, and raised by his abductors as their son, asked a judge for leniency in sentencing the couple.

Leniency seems to be such a success that the European Commission is sitting on what Mr Pheasant calls a "time bomb" of cartel investigations, with more than 200 applications for leniency on file.Better still for trustbusters, one successful case often begets another confession.

[C1.] I.R.S. Offers Leniency in Questionable Tax Shelter Cases The Internal Revenue Service is making an unusual offer of leniency to firms that made and sold questionable tax shelters: come forward, pay penalties and turn over information and you may avoid criminal prosecution.

In reality, they want a solid, 1-2 weeks of leniency before they are expected to really produce anything — which in this example would amount to $10,000.