Sentence examples for lesser penalty from inspiring English sources

She said she was sending the case back to Mr. Kerik for "imposition of a lesser penalty".

That said, it might be fairer to impose a lesser penalty for, say, the first 10 missed deadlines and bigger penalties after that.

Manslaughter, in Anglo-American criminal law, a category of criminal homicide that generally carries a lesser penalty than the crime of murder.

"But what was really shocking to me," she said, "was that 82percentt of the cases that are sent back after review receive some lesser penalty".

He overturned an arbitrator's decision allowing the city's Education Department to fire Mr. Esteban and sent the matter back to the department with orders to impose a lesser penalty.

Arno Klarsfeld became the event of the trial, pleading for a lesser penalty for Papon than the life sentence demanded by the prosecuting authorities, and also disassociating Papon from other, worse war criminals, like Klaus Barbie.

Even lesser penalties can effectively end a military career.

Users who suffer lesser penalties can restore their 80 points by avoiding violations for two months.

Another step was to give the superintendent the right to impose lesser penalties than expulsion.

Telecoms operating companies would be liable to lesser penalties but would still face up to two years in jail.

A voluntary disclosure program that ended in October allowed American taxpayers to come forward and report their secret offshore accounts to the I.R.S. in exchange for lesser penalties.