They said that if any more recounts were done in Florida, the county canvassing boards should also count overseas absentee ballots using a new, more lenient standard that was ordered by a federal judge in Pensacola on Friday.
But even under the new, more lenient fine schedule imposed by the appeals court, City Manager Neil J. DeLuca predicted that he would have to begin laying off city employees within three weeks.
"I think that there's been sacrifice across the region in terms of [people] letting their landscapes dry". Environmental groups, on the other hand, have criticized the state's new more lenient approach, arguing that mandates to conserve have been almost exclusively beneficial.
These are tested when an impassioned colonel from the old regime shows off his prize instrument of torture, lobbying for its continued use despite a new and more lenient commander.
Conservatives such as Iain Duncan Smith, the party's former leader, and Ed Vaizey, its arts spokesman, have also criticised the British Board of Film Classification for giving the new Batman film a lenient 12A rating.
A small clan of "Save Burbank Neighborhoods" members voiced their opposition to the new poles and more lenient regulations, but the pack was nowhere near the droves that successfully protested the proposed T-Mobile tower on top of the Little White Chapel.
News of branches with lenient staff spreads quickly.
For example, in early 2007 Countrywide Financial Corp. re-chartered, ditched its old regulator (the Comptroller) and switched to a new regulator (the notoriously-lenient OTS).
When stepfamilies are ravaged by fights over how to discipline the children (fathers tend to be more lenient than their new wives), or between teenagers and their stepparents, those involved may be relieved to go their separate ways.
Jim Jarmusch's new film is a lugubrious, lenient, sweetly acted comedy about male middle-age, and it has been Jarmusch's greatest box office success so far, arguably his first real box office success.
