Sentence examples for mild punishments from inspiring English sources

Mr. Astakhov said abusive parents have been given mild punishments because American courts view Russian children as inferior.

He who inflicts severe punishments becomes oppressive; he who inflicts mild punishments is overpowered; and he who inflicts just punishments is respected.

Over the last three years, she had repeatedly missed court-ordered therapy and hearings, and the judge, J. Wesley Saint Clair of the Drug Diversion Court, at first meted out mild punishments, like community service.

For many onlookers, who point out that the NFL has a track record of imposing only mild punishments on players accused of domestic violence, there's little question about what the commissioner ought to do.

But Pakistan was unable to hold to even that mild punishment.

After nine months under investigation, Detective Vasquez received a mild punishment, the loss of one vacation day.

Classical deterrence theory has long held that the threat of a mild punishment imposed reliably and immediately has a much greater deterrent effect than the threat of a severe punishment that is delayed and uncertain.

What he meant was that he expected the kids to go quietly, to plead guilty and passively accept the blot on their records and what he thought of as mild punishment.

But in nearly every case, the subcommittee found that the agency gave HSBC only a warning or mild punishment and did not push the bank to make large-scale changes.

But by this spring, the only formal suspect in the case was Ibragim D. Yevloyev, a low-level Interior Ministry employee, and he wound up with a mild punishment — two years under a relaxed form of house arrest.

JOHANNESBURG — Julius Malema, the inflammatory president of the governing party's youth league, was given a mild punishment by party elders on Tuesday after a disciplinary hearing that many here once expected to yield a far harsher comeuppance.