Sentence examples for lax penalties from inspiring English sources

Lax Penalties New Mexico's racing industry — the tracks and their regulators — has been unusually slow in responding to the safety alarms.

Again, the recent housing crisis is a perfect example that has been discussed ad nauseam: Lenders were encouraged by public policy grounded in social-engineering to make uneconomic loans, and borrowers, often with the prospects of lax penalties, did the rational thing: They took all the money they could get.

Mr. Hogan prefers to persuade rather than to crack down on lax towns and villages; penalties are light as long as a good faith effort is shown.

The government spurred development, too, through tax breaks, monetary penalties for lax security practices in the financial industry and paying for security initiatives like the CERT center at Carnegie Mellon University, which monitors computer attacks.

Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations".

In its annual report, published on June 30th, the BIS leaves readers pondering what the penalty for lax policy will be: inflation or deflation.Credit busts often beget recessions.

"There continues to be lax controls over overtime and penalties earned by crews in the railyards," authority investigators said in 2006.

The real penalty is negative publicity about lax information security at a time when identity theft is rampant and financial firms are competing doggedly for new assets from recession-strapped investors.

Some left NIH, some received punishments such as several weeks' suspension without pay, while others got letters of reprimand--penalties lawmakers suggested today were too lax.

During the 1990's, Texas and other states took an increasingly lax approach to enforcement, relying more on incentives than penalties to promote compliance by the business community.

Ten years later, OIG levied similar charges, stating that lax APHIS enforcement and insufficient fines had made its penalties "basically meaningless".