Sentence examples for mild sanctions from inspiring English sources

It has gone along with — while delaying — three United Nations Security Council resolutions that have imposed mild sanctions on Iran.

Still, the Justice Department and state attorneys general pressing the case insist that they will not settle for mild sanctions.

Since Mr Mugabe managed to steal the election without attracting more than mild sanctions, the elite feels more secure.

Malaysia ruled out even such mild sanctions as suspending Myanmar's membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ASEANN).

It is several years since the United Nations dropped the mild sanctions it imposed as punishment for Lockerbie.

Beijing has paid lip service to mild sanctions while becoming Iran's largest trading partner in recent years: Tehran is awash in Chinese products.

"Given the government's stark allegations of manipulative conduct against Morgan Stanley, disgorgement of $4.8 million is a relatively mild sanction," Judge Pauley wrote.

Legal proceedings against Dr Gilman were quickly resolved with a mild sanction: he agreed to pay back any profits and pledged to avoid committing fraud in the future.Mr Martoma, for his part, was arrested in November and faces criminal charges.

Moscow has already voted for two sets of milder sanctions.

So they hardly ever do it, which means it is not much of a deterrent.It turns out that milder sanctions can be swifter and more certain.

Barnardo's, a children's charity, says the influx of very young prisoners has bumped 15- and 16-year-old inmates up into young offenders' institutions meant for older teenagers.The most common reason for imprisonment among younger children is the breach of a milder sanction such as an antisocial-behaviour order (ASBO) or curfew.