Sentence examples for measures that soften from inspiring English sources
Instead, he has steadied the ship with a few modest proposals – including a higher top income tax rate and measures that soften the rise in the pension age – aimed at holding together a diverse social democratic family.
Wallace is one of more than 1,000 prisoners from Los Angeles County who have asked a judge to reduce the length of their sentences or free them under Proposition 36, a 2012 ballot measure that softened three strikes.
In recent years, the rhetoric that accompanied the passage of those laws has begun to shift, with legislators from both sides of the aisle introducing measures that would soften the country's approach to drug crimes.
Last April, two months before the C.P.A. was dissolved and in the midst of a dramatic upsurge in the violence in Iraq, Paul Bremer announced measures that softened his original decree against the Baathists.
I've never been comfortable using words that soften things.
Your doctor may prescribe hypersmolar laxatives that soften stools.
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Senate voted 16 to 5 on Friday to advance a measure that would soften a statewide smoking ban, putting the state on track to become the first in the nation to ease restrictions it had imposed on cigarette use in public spaces.
"We've done everything we can to include measures that may help soften the blow of quota cuts, but it's going to take a collective effort to find more ways to keep both the fishery and the businesses that support it viable while these stocks recover".
Marisa Gerber looked at Proposition 36, the 2012 ballot measure that softened the state's "three strikes" sentencing law.
That softened the blow on me.
