Sentence examples similar to a mild sentence from inspiring English sources

A milder sentence is expected for her principal accomplice, Zhang Xiaojun, because Ms. Gu has reportedly confessed to buying and administering the poison that killed Mr. Heywood.

Even parents who might have come up with a milder sentence could at least express their support for those who make them look like reasonable creatures, comparatively, to their own children.

Obama goes on to admit that by hanging around with these people, he was becoming "more like" them, and Frank — refusing to plea-bargain this stunning confession for a milder sentence — agrees, then piles on.

Józef received a milder sentence: five years' exile in Siberia, first at Kirensk on the Lena River, then at Tunka.

Nonetheless, he asked the district attorney's office to plea bargain for a milder sentence, even though the trial was over and the time for such bargaining had long passed.

He was also tried, and a relatively mild sentence — a fine — was handed down from the very top.

Harich himself drew a remarkably mild sentence for a crime punishable by death.

"It's time to better protect the American people and our values by bringing swift and sure justice to terrorists through our courts and our Uniform Code of Military Justice," Obama said in August, after the completion of the first trial at Guantanamo Bay, which resulted in a relatively mild sentence for Osama bin Laden's driver.

The Jamaican-born coach was eventually given a relatively mild sentence, largely because the jury was unimpressed with the prosecution's "true devil" of a witness.

The mild sentence drew complaints from secularist groups but it is another sign of the building momentum for enforcing the rule of law against self-appointed religious police.The same day the parliament passed, after years of debate, a controversial "porn bill" sought by Islamists but backed by some secular parties in an attempt to look pious.

Originally facing up to 35 years in prison, he will now receive a much milder sentence, perhaps including no time in jail.The government's aggressive pursuit of Mr Drake confounded advocates of open government.