Sentence examples for lowering penalties from inspiring English sources

Many patients for baseline classification would have received a home healthcare professional, while not actually lowering penalties.

Since 2000, 29 states have rolled back mandatory minimum sentences, mostly focusing on lowering penalties for nonviolent drug offenses.

Even relatively conservative business groups like the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, eager for fiscal sanity, are on board with reform, which in this case means lowering penalties for drug crimes and expanding who might be eligible for parole, among other changes.

There is also little explanation of how lowering penalty rates (or wages) will improve productivity, which is the amount of work done per hour, not per dollar.

During the interview the screen flashed continuously with dire warnings set off in quotation marks — "Obama would take this country to the far left"; "Obama would open the door to illegal immigrants"; "Obama would lower penalties for dangerous drug criminals"; "Obama's tax plan 'might trigger a stock market crash' " — apparently distilled from Mr. Morris's book.

Seventeen makers of toilets, bathtubs and sinks were fined a total of 622.3 million euros ($767 million) on Wednesday for fixing prices over a period of 12 years, but Mr. Almunia lowered penalties on five of them to avoid pushing them into bankruptcy.

How come people get arrested for the same shit in the city?" The State of New York severely lowered penalties for marijuana possession in 1977, attaching article 221 to the penal code on drug enforcement.

That principle holds true across this country as some states that lowered penalties against marijuana possession years ago have among the lowest rates of use while some states that retained harsh marijuana laws have among the highest.

An Illinois state representative has proposed a new bill that would punish marijuana possession under 30 grams with a fine of $100, and would lower penalties for possession of over 30 grams but less than 500.

Still, with many accounts holding securities that have plunged in value because of faltering stock markets, the new lowered penalty will still have some sting.

"If they're not lowering the penalties, they're authorising community sentences and giving judges more discretion".