Sentence examples for a light term from inspiring English sources

"To say she's frustrated would be a light term," Rich Nichols, Jones's longtime lawyer and business manager, said.

"It's such a light term, and if you looked at my life, you'd see it wasn't light at all".

Judge Lake said Friday that he had calculated the sentencing range to be about 12.5 years to 15.5 years, but gave Mr. Olis a lighter term.

NEWARK (AP) — The informer in New Jersey's biggest corruption sting operation was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison by a judge who ignored prosecutors' recommendations to impose a lighter term.

Sentencing guidelines directed the judge to impose a mandatory life sentence, but Mr Chambers appealed for a lighter term.

After his five current wives made desperate pleas to keep him out of prison, Thomas A. Green was sentenced today to a relatively light term, five years, for his conviction in June on four counts of bigamy and one count of criminal nonsupport.

Once the seedlings are exposed to a short term light impulse, the pathway profile shifted.

The Tennis Foundation's cross-curricular resources can be used in isolation for a light summer term lesson or even as part of a tennis-themed week.

Companies love slapping this "light" term on foods because it plays into your low-fat fears.

Indeed, he began talking to authorities in exchange for a lighter prison term after he was caught stealing six pounds of cocaine from an evidence locker.

"When Kate first made the complaint," says Sarah Lennox, of All About Trans, "some papers said 'sex swap' was a light-hearted term.