Sentence examples for modest sentence from inspiring English sources

That modest sentence could be emblazoned on courthouse walls as the credo of the open-minded judge.

His complaint led to a reversal and retrial, in which prosecutors sought a more modest sentence of four years.

Magruder seems to have done little besides try to save himself, & probably should have served out his modest sentence.

He received a modest sentence of five and a half years and was released at year's end.

But even the prosecutors would support the governor's limited proposal to allow some defendants to ask the Appellate Division for modest sentence reductions.

Skilling was convicted largely thanks to the evidence of Enron's former chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, who turned supergrass against his colleagues in return for a more modest sentence of six years' imprisonment.

Two of the three received modest sentences and are now free.

"What are you going to do, kill somebody twice?" In most cases, hate crime laws take offenses that would carry more modest sentences — assault, vandalism — and ratchet up the penalty two or three times because we know, or think we know, what evil disposition lurked in the offender's mind.

Her somewhat showily modest sentences, describing what happens but not what it means, what is said but not what anybody thinks, add up in a few excellent stories to an eerily dignified mood, a complex and antinostalgic sense of what it is like to be old and looking back, nothing to do now.

The recent amendments leave such modest sentencing in place.

To be sure, the mood was more favorable to Mr. James than not, with many people willing to believe that he deserved a modest prison sentence but that he did far more good than harm in Newark.