Judge Laurence Rittenband, however, was apparently prepared to tear up the deal, possibly because he was worried about public reaction to a lenient verdict.
It remains a tough balancing act for Brussels; push too hard and risk strengthening eurosceptic sentiment in Italy, but too lenient a stance risks a counter reaction from other European members that comply with the rules.
Yet any lenient bemusement vanishes on imagining the reaction of someone who had no idea who Doherty is: "Hey, who was that terrible actor playing the lead guy, the one who describes himself as a 'libertine'libertine
In general, my reaction to Norway's lenient, rehabilitation-focused justice system is not that the Norwegian sense of retributive justice is underdeveloped and defective, but that America's is.
Though the mood in India is one of alarm, pundits take the view that the army will be "far too busy grappling with internal dynamics" to threaten India now.The Americans may be tempering their first hostile response; if General Musharraf gives military rule a civilian face, outside reaction may well be lenient.
Instead of replicating the various exact reaction conditions reported in each paper, very lenient settings were applied in all cases, essentially removing the screen for primer/probe vs. candidate hit Tm by setting this threshold to 0°K, and instead checking for specificity by requiring that hits have fewer than 3 mismatches per primer or probe.
To isolate a subset of genes possibly related to the host incompatible reaction to the nematode invasion we initially adopted a lenient analysis of the pairwise sample comparison in terms of P-values and FDRs.
The reaction softened a bit when, without objection from the Crown prosecutor, the judge handed down lenient sentences; the most severe, for the arsonists, included a form of house arrest.
Like many people, my initial reaction to the sentence imposed on Brock Turner, the Stanford student convicted of sexual assault, was that it was too lenient.
Britain looks particularly lenient.
