Sentence examples for lenient settlement from inspiring English sources

The avalanche of objections to the EU reaching a lenient settlement with Google come at the end of a four-year investigation into anti-competitive search practices.

Mr. Jones and Mr. Hodges sparred over a number of differences between the states' proposals and the more lenient settlement proposals.

Microsoft won a lenient settlement with the Justice Department in October 2001, he said, only to be slapped with nearly 1.6 billion euros, or $2.1 billion, in fines and penalties from the European Union from 2004 to 2008.

Although Microsoft was found guilty of illegally "tying" its web-browser to Windows, and was initially ordered to be broken in two, the far more lenient settlement that was eventually agreed made no attempt to prevent similar tying in future.

Hence this week's remarkably lenient settlement agreement with most (but not all) of the company's legal foes in America.At one stage, Microsoft faced the prospect of being split in two as punishment for its behaviour.

The fact that this court of appeals, historically sympathetic to Microsoft's claims, has unanimously ruled that the company has systematically violated the Sherman Antitrust Act should give pause to anyone within the Bush administration who may be tempted on ideological grounds to reach a lenient settlement.

And as time has gone by it has seemed possible that by tying the two proposals together, Hall may have jeopardised his chances of delivering the production quota reforms so vital to securing a more lenient licence fee settlement.

In his speech announcing his intentions to the world, he offered Hanoi what seem to be the most lenient terms for a settlement that have ever been offered by this Administration or its predecessor.

Some WorldCom critics said yesterday that the settlement deal was too lenient.

The foreclosure fraud settlement was actually pretty lenient from the banks' perspective, but it could have been far worse.

Following the deaths of Eugenius, Arbogast, and Nicomachus Flavianus, Theodosius showed himself lenient and strove to achieve the settlement between opposing forces that was necessary to strengthen imperial unity.