Sentence examples for lenient regime from inspiring English sources

The plan to dramatically increase the amount of affordable housing could set the mayor on course for a high-stakes haggle with private housebuilders who, after eight years Ken Livingstone demanding up to 50% affordable in the developments, enjoyed a more lenient regime under Johnson.

That change brought a spike of bankruptcies, as companies and individuals rushed to declare themselves broke under the more lenient old regime.

Ultimately, it will be easier for Clarke to get his plans for 40-hour working weeks in prison and tougher community penalties through the Commons, but he may have to rely on Labour votes to get his more lenient sentencing regime on to the statute books.

To foster differentiated energy services, we recommend a more lenient regulatory regime lowering the barriers for new market entrants.

The ISPs would likely argue the FCC was being arbitrary and capricious in its rules and that putting Internet providers under a more lenient regulatory regime has been and remains appropriate.

Creditors rarely sued and the government was lenient.

And the government is lenient about collecting fees.

Initially a dour, rude and unbending apparatchik — the very cutout of a military officer in a dictatorial regime — Mr. Tint Swe became more amicable and lenient, realizing that censorship was unsustainable in the age of the Internet.

Survivors of the killing fields of 1975-79 expressed anger and disbelief at what they saw as too lenient a sentence for a key player in the Khmer Rouge regime, which wiped out a quarter of Cambodia's population.

Rulings by European and East Asian anti-trust authorities tended during this period to be harsher than those of an avowedly 'light touch' U.S. regime, which as late as 2008 encouraged a lenient interpretation of section 2 of the Sherman Act, the US equivalent of Article 82.

But when Gordon Brown suggested reviewing the tax regime governing the North Sea oil industry, one of the most lenient in the world, the oil giants threatened to pull out of the North Sea, resulting in thousands of job losses.