Sentence examples for lenient deal from inspiring English sources

Beijing might endorse a more lenient deal, said Mazarr, leaving much of the North's nuclear capabilities intact while effectively opening up North Korea's economy to unfettered investment from China and relieving the pressure of international economic sanctions.

Sonya Singleton, a Kansas woman accused of assisting her drug-dealing husband and others launder illicit funds, sought to disallow the trial testimony of a co-conspirator whose lenient plea deal assured that his words were prosecution-approved.

But in comments clearly aimed at members of Congress who fear the White House would accept too lenient a deal, Carney insisted that the administration will not ease sanctions aimed at Iran's oil exports or banking systems, which would be difficult to restore.

Hartnett, who faced criticism for signing off on lenient "sweetheart" deals on tax with firms including Goldman Sachs, moved to HSBC less than a year after leaving HMRC.

The faculty support statement calls on teachers to be lenient in dealing with student absences, avoid scheduling important tests during the boycott, help student strikers keep up with class work, and wear yellow ribbons to show solidarity.

In other criminal cases, defendants were offered lenient plea deals so prosecutors would not be forced to reveal in court that Stingrays were used.

Now Clinton operatives are pointing to statements by the business mogul that indicate a break with past Republican orthodoxy, suggesting he would be more lenient in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

It would be extraordinary if the FBI and/or MPD were successful in convincing a federal prosecutor to abandon a criminal case or to strike lenient plea deals with defendants in cases where a Stingray was used.

Even Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, a Republican member of the Gang of Six, thought the White House was too lenient in the deal outlined in the Times.

The pending agreement, which calls for the withdrawal of the Pakistani Army from parts of the tribal areas in exchange for the militants' ending hostilities, has dismayed the Bush administration, which considers the deal too lenient toward militants.

Perhaps the most lenient interpretation of self-dealing was made during the 1973 Saxbe hearings by Duke University School of Law professor William Van Alstyne, who argued that the ineligibility clause only applied to new offices created during a congressional term, not to appointments to existing offices.