Sentence examples for Modest penalty from inspiring English sources

If you read the judge's sentencing statement closely you can see how he arrived at such a modest penalty.

"There is a risk that a large financial services firm like Morgan Stanley could view such a modest penalty as merely the cost of doing business".

The state also found, to the surprise of some, that the share of employers contributing to their workers' coverage (rather than accepting a modest penalty for not doing so) had risen.

A remarkable and encouraging development is that employers, who faced only a modest penalty if they dropped or failed to provide coverage, have chosen instead to expand coverage, in part because their workers were clamoring for group coverage.

The Americans are now breathing down the necks of a dozen or so other Swiss banks, including Credit Suisse.In the wake of the Birkenfeld case, the IRS introduced amnesty programmes allowing Americans to repatriate the contents of undeclared offshore accounts at a modest penalty rate.

To cite just one example: The bill's mandate to buy insurance, which is a linchpin of every projection in the bill, depends on a modest penalty of $750 a year to compel people to buy coverage.

There are experts who buy into the notion of behavior modification through swift, modest penalties.

Government employees who leak classified information may deserve modest penalties, he said, but the Obama administration needs to make clear that reporting or publishing classified information will not be prosecuted.

Under the 1997 deal, Bear Stearns, because of the size of its current payroll, will incur only modest penalties if it moves fewer than 1,000 employees out of the city.

And rather than paying €95, or $121, for each gram above the target on each registered car, as originally proposed, automakers that missed the target by one to three grams faced far more modest penalties of €5 to €25 for each excess gram.

These are modest penalties in a world of such billion-dollar debacles as Enron's.