Sentence examples for milder penalty from inspiring English sources

§ 5506), every person who, by any unlawful means, hindered or combined with others to hinder any citizen from voting at any election in any state, etc., was subjected to a much milder penalty than that under § 6.

The officer, Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, faced five years in prison and dismissal from the Army, but a court-martial decided on the milder penalty, the Army said.

But in these and 13 other cases in recent years in which teachers were accused of inappropriate behavior with students, the city was overruled by an arbitrator who, despite finding wrongdoing, opted for a milder penalty like a fine, a suspension or a formal reprimand.

Like Brown, he noted that arbitrators might have been inclined to impose milder penalties in an effort to keep their jobs.

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The state established a mild penalty for the first year: the loss of the $219 tax exemption.

Still, the relatively mild penalty for insubordination reflects broad community sympathy for him.

"If you get old enough, you can commit a white-collar crime," Judge Posner said acidly about the mild penalty.

Drake was given a mild penalty for pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charge of exceeding authorized use of a computer: a year's probation and 240 hours of community service.

A mild penalty here would send the wrong message to the other 29 clubs, and most crucially, would put the overall legitimacy of the game at stake: risks MLB can't afford to take.

Instead of firing Mr. Knight for behavior that would not have been tolerated in any faculty member -- or for that matter, in any coach less successful at winning games and generating revenues -- he gave him only a very mild penalty.