Sentence examples for accused of less from inspiring English sources

The judge, Jonathan Lippman, is proposing that the state transfer jurisdiction for 16- and 17-year-olds accused of less serious crimes to family courts, which have more social services, while continuing to prosecute the most violent juveniles as adults.

Chief Judge Lippman has also been pushing legislation in Albany that would allow judges in the state to consider public safety in bail decisions and ease the way for judges to release defendants accused of less serious offenses, who often cannot afford even small bail amounts.

By successfully completing the intensive supervision program, people such as Williams, accused of less serious federal crimes, can avoid prison or even have their cases dismissed outright.

Conventional wisdom aside, this practice has resulted in an average of 50,000 16 and 17-year-old children who are tried, as adults--even where they are accused of less serious crimes, like misdemeanors.

The program, known as accelerated rehabilitation, is offered to people accused of less-serious crimes.

Law was often accused of giving less to Scotland than he gave to United.

The government, meanwhile, is accused of nothing less than "bankruptcy" and "betrayal".

The programme – which pays contractors for people they get into work – was accused of being less effective than claimed by ministers.

Rudolf Scharping, the defence minister, has been accused of being less than forthcoming about the cancer risks run by German troops exposed to the effects of depleted-uranium shells in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Yet just when it seems poised to reduce the world's dependence on oil, its largely sugar-based ethanol industry stands accused of being less wonderful than it looks.

She stands accused of governing less as a leader than as a moderator, brokering compromises among the coalition's warring factions and then claiming credit for whatever emerges.To many, the results have been disappointing.