Sentence examples for informal warning from inspiring English sources

A trial which has just begun in South London allows anyone caught with cannabis to be given an informal warning rather than being arrested and cautioned or prosecuted.

Mr. Desmond's eviction calculations are probably conservative: They include only households that touched the legal process, not those in which people moved with an informal warning.

The proposal to introduce different penalties for different strengths of cannabis could cause practical problems for the police, who would have to distinguish between cannabis that they could arrest adults for possessing and weaker strains for which they could only issue an informal warning.

Stories in Birmingham came "very close" to having its licence suspended, but was issued an "informal warning".

It may appear that a positive association is not unlikely, as a first infraction may result in an informal warning and only the second or later infraction in an actual sanction if the agency pursues a tough sanction strategy.

International laws and informal warnings of retaliation are designed to dissuade dictators and terrorists from using weapons of mass destruction under any circumstances.

A court of appeal ruling meant an asbo required a criminal, rather than civil, burden of proof, making them expensive and slow compared with informal warnings.

It would be a two-way process, so the security services would be able to use it to issue informal warnings about extremist behaviour or suspicious patterns of behaviour.

It led to two final written warnings, two first written warnings and 22 informal warnings.

As a consequence, it appears that UBII recipients can learn little about their agency's sanction policy from informal warnings given during the monitoring process.

The qualitative study by (Baethge-Kinsky et al. (2007): 52) suggests that informal warnings are used regularly but remain an abstract threat and are followed by the imposition of a sanction only in relatively few cases.