Sentence examples for a relatively lenient from inspiring English sources

He instead relied on a relatively lenient test, asking whether the law had a rational basis for its discrimination.

It was a relatively lenient sentence, perhaps mitigated by league officials' knowledge of what Rypien was going through.

Prosecutors had requested a relatively lenient penalty because Mr. Siekaczek cooperated extensively with the investigation, they said on Friday, the final day of the trial.

If Madoff, 70, gets a relatively lenient 20 years and lives beyond the age of 87, he could conceivably see daylight again.

There is an element of compassion in this: Nat knows that Samuel is a relatively lenient master, not disposed to rape, which the auctioneer invites, with increasing explicitness.

Pennsylvania actually has a relatively lenient age limit for filing child sex abuse charges 30 for civil cases and 50 for criminal cases.

As owners in a building with relatively lenient policies, like 10percentt down payments and flexible sublets, the Hymans talk about their apartment as a strategic investment that they someday plan to turn into cash.

Chief among them are the governments of places that benefit from acting as tax havens, which are not just small tropical islands but include Luxembourg, Ireland (which gains jobs from hosting some of Apple's subsidiaries) and Britain, which has a tradition of being relatively lenient on firms that break, as well as bend, the tax rules.

In any case, Anderson's concluding, catastrophic vision of a Noah-like flood subjects even the relatively lenient authority of 1965 New England liberals to a scathing cosmic repudiation.

Some of their parents were either relatively lenient or they found a way to dress conservatively when they left home but changed their clothing afterward.

Conversely, the angiographic case definition for CAD in non-MI individuals was relatively lenient, and there is a possibility of over-diagnosis of CAD.