Sentence examples for milder punishment from inspiring English sources

5--Peele wrote: "It is possible for the reckless driver who kills someone to receive a milder punishment than a slightly intoxicated driver". It is most assuredly not possible.

But the decision was reversed on appeal and a far milder punishment, in the form of restrictions on Microsoft's behaviour, was applied instead.

But given that his second consecutive five-year term expired on March 7, he was threatened only by a milder punishment of losing a pension and not being able to run for the presidency again.

Falsely confessing to random wrongdoing — swearing at their superiors, throwing out medication — results in milder punishment, so Jin-man and Si-bong learn to game the system: Si-bong admitted to cursing the caretakers again and was beaten repeatedly in the thighs with a steel pipe.

More serious was his attitude in the matter of "criminous clerks". In western Europe, accused clerics for long had enjoyed the privilege of standing trial before the bishop rather than secular courts and usually received milder punishments than lay courts would assess.

Other than expulsion, the House can censure or reprimand a member — milder punishments used on dozens of occasions.

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.

The mild punishment meted out for past safety infractions has reinforced the belief that nuclear power's main players are more interested in protecting their interests than increasing safety.

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.