Sentence examples for A lenient interpretation from inspiring English sources

The government urges that Congress' lenient treatment of simple possession "is an exception to [the] severe criminalization of the drug trade" and does not support a lenient interpretation of other statutes such as § 843(b).

Rulings by European and East Asian anti-trust authorities tended during this period to be harsher than those of an avowedly 'light touch' U.S. regime, which as late as 2008 encouraged a lenient interpretation of section 2 of the Sherman Act, the US equivalent of Article 82.

And that is a lenient interpretation, given the recent scandal in which a Saudi Cleric declared that "women cannot drive because they have a quarter of a brain".

In a hypothetical library with three reagents per gene, a lenient interpretation (requiring one or more of three reagents to score) results in few false negatives but an extremely high number of false positives in the outcome of a screen (Table 3 and Figure 6, Rule A).

In modern times, a more lenient interpretation permitted anointing of the less seriously ill.

Several leaders, including President Jacques Chirac of France and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany, have called for a more lenient interpretation of the pact.

These comment letters could save Wall Street banks billions of dollars if they help persuade policy makers to adopt a more lenient interpretation of the coming rules.

That year, the U.S. Supreme Court raised the bar for proving treason, over objections from the government that a more lenient interpretation was necessary during wartime, as the National Constitution Center has noted.

The companies that are pressing for a more lenient interpretation of the rules say the E.P.A. has been too harsh in trying to police modifications that were made long ago or that did not result in any pollution increase.

At the 1968 Masters, Argentine golfer Roberto De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard after finishing the tournament tied for first place, resulting in his disqualification, despite the precedent of a more lenient interpretation of the rules.

Within three decades, the Franciscans were divided on this issue: one party, the Spirituals, demanded that the friars adopt usus pauper as their ideal of spiritual perfection, while the other, the Conventuals, argued for a more lenient interpretation of the Rule.