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Research Data Policy Type 1 is the most lenient by encouraging data citation and sharing.

Or it could become more lenient, by signaling to the banks that it will send fewer loans back.

After admitting 14 counts of abuse against girls as young as nine, the former presenter of It's A Knockout had his sentence doubled from an initial 15 months term which was criticised as "unduly lenient" by the Court of Appeal.

Voters appeared to endorse a measure that would make the state's three-strikes law somewhat more lenient by imposing a life sentence only for a third felony conviction considered serious or violent.

In fact, while it may seem harsh that the Environmental Protection Agency is penalizing them for failing to do the impossible, the agency is being lenient by the standards of the law, the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

The proposal, which was criticized as too lenient by environmental advocates and too strict by developers, would allow the permits for more types of wetlands and for larger construction sites.

(The Motion Picture Association of America defended its lenient rating by pointing out that "nobody ever got mugged by a shark").

Those stiffer punishments had been sought by Hong Kong's Beijing-backed government, which was unhappy with more lenient sentences by a lower court two years ago of community service for Mr. Wong and Mr. Law and a suspended jail term for Mr. Chow.

Such incidents are counter-productive, encouraging civilians to shelter JI militants.Another worry is lenient sentencing by Indonesia's courts.

Cambridge will point to two lenient calls by the referee to let John Oster and Marcus Maddison stay on the pitch.

The result is a patchwork of state laws — some harsh, some lenient — overlaid by a Secure Communities program that some key states are now attacking.