The NFL has endured a torrent of criticism for its handling of the incident both in recent days and earlier in the year, when it handed Rice a two-game suspension that was widely viewed as far too lenient.
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It didn't quite come to blows but the lenient gun laws of the Lone Star state made a mere punch in the head seem superfluous.
Should a deal be reached on a new package of reforms it is understood that eurozone finance ministers would sign off a more lenient schedule that would cut the interest rate on the loans and delay the bulk of Athens' repayments beyond 2030, in return for clear commitments to create a more sustainable public budget.
The attorney general's office has confirmed it is considering whether to refer the sentence to the court of appeal for being unduly lenient after receiving complaints.
The hope in Whitehall is that Koussa's lenient treatment by the UK authorities will send a positive signal to other would-be Libyan defectors as part of a broader strategy of eroding Muammar Gaddafi's position.
In exchange for lenient treatment after he was arrested for stealing cocaine from a police-station locker, Mr Perez confessed that he and another officer had shot unarmed men and then planted guns on them.
It overturns an original life sentence in February, which many thought too lenient.
By the same token, fees or fines that might seem lenient to a middle-class Republican primary voter would be unaffordable for many illegal immigrants.
Chief among them are the governments of places that benefit from acting as tax havens, which are not just small tropical islands but include Luxembourg, Ireland (which gains jobs from hosting some of Apple's subsidiaries) and Britain, which has a tradition of being relatively lenient on firms that break, as well as bend, the tax rules.
As a sop, the government says that public-sector wages will go up by as much as 70%.Mr Kuchma and his allies may reckon that they have been too lenient.
