Sentence examples for mild measures from inspiring English sources

Even mild measures can have surprising bite.

European authorities have already missed many opportunities to calm investors down with relatively mild measures.

But while all the major fossil fuel firms rank close to the bottom of the group's table, BP emerges as Europe's strongest advocate of dirty energy, opposing even mild measures to raise carbon trading prices.

Even the rather mild measures that the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, announced on Monday — which included the drastic reduction of inter-Korean trade and resumption of the propaganda war along the demilitarized zone — have caused widespread hand-wringing.

When he responded, it was with relatively mild measures like reducing the South's already minuscule trade with the North, resuming the South's cold-war-era propaganda speakers along the demilitarized zone and demanding an apology.

This can be achieved by relatively mild measures.

These mild measures, however, were in vain; the Meletians joined the Arians and caused more dissension than ever, being among the worst enemies of Athanasius.

Although gun violence is endemic in the U.S., even after the worst mass shooting in American history, Congress failed to pass even mild measures of gun control - like barring individuals on the terror watch list from buying firearms and to tighten the background checks for gun buyers - which are supported by a large majority of the American people.