Sentence examples for bargain rather than from inspiring English sources

Serra said he had the impression that the other Balco defendants might also accept a plea bargain rather than involve star athletes in a trial.

In ancient Japan offering occupied a particularly important place in religion because the relationship of the people to their gods seems frequently to have had the character of a bargain rather than of adoration.

This will be necessary if the two sides are to arrive at a good bargain, rather than a bad one – or even an outright failure to cooperate, so that Greece in effect drops out of the euro.

Mr Bogira watches a few cases where even apparently innocent defendants agree to a plea bargain rather than run the risk of a trial conviction.It may well be the case that impoverished defendants in other countries are not treated any better.

In 2006, the last year for which data was available, the corresponding percentage in state courts was 94. "In today's criminal justice system," Justice Kennedy wrote, "the negotiation of a plea bargain, rather than the unfolding of a trial, is almost always the critical point for a defendant".

They took the plea bargain rather than fighting the case, he says, because every (London-based) witness they wanted to call to back up their story, now represented by NatWest's lawyers, refused to travel to testify, and losing held out a prospect of at least 20 years in prison.

Most of them make plea bargains rather than stand trial, and most serve relatively short sentences.

He said Moscow hoped the talks would now move into a phase of "bargaining," rather than just offering proposals.

That is another reason for caution in Lancashire; Burnley are clearly looking for bargains rather than outbidding their rivals.

But, according to his parents, he was told that he would need to keep going, because the cases had led to plea bargains rather than to convictions.

His engagement with the other musicians in the band suggested a kind of collective bargaining rather than the resolute charge of a leader and his men.