Sentence examples for modest sentencing in from inspiring English sources
The recent amendments leave such modest sentencing in place.
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.
His complaint led to a reversal and retrial, in which prosecutors sought a more modest sentence of four years.
Two of the three received modest sentences and are now free.
He faces sentencing in December.
Previous prison amnesties by him, some on his birthdays in April, have involved small numbers or modest cuts in sentences.
There is some carefully modest language in that sentence; nonetheless, it crosses into the realm of nation-building, including the construction of political legitimacy for an Afghan government that is accused of having just tried to steal a national election.
The following sentence, in the Results: "in both monkeys, a modest number of trials exhibited spontaneous vacillations".
The first and second sentences in the conclusion should have read: "In conclusion even a modest reduction in BMI z-score after one year intervention was associated with improvement in total-, LDL, and total/HDL cholesterol.
On the surface, a banal enough affair, the fine was a modest 500 dirhams, or $57, and Mr. Belrhouat was immediately freed, having already served his four-month and three-day sentence in pre-trial detention.
