Sentence examples for punished less from inspiring English sources

"Glitches in the legislation mean that an identical crime is punished less severely here than, say, in Germany".

The implication is that because Hall got away with it for so long, he should be punished less.

Crimes that are committed out of passion are punished less severely than crimes committed under other circumstances.

But observers say they believe the activist was being punished less for what he wrote than for his role in trying to reform the strict defamation laws, which critics are often used for political reasons.

Here is another race card: crimes committed by black men are punished more severely than comparable crimes committed by white men, and crimes against black people are punished less severely than crimes against white people.

However heartfelt, this is also faintly disingenuous, for a close inspection of what was being written about him at the time suggests that he was being punished less for his success than for the sometimes wildly exaggerated claims made on his behalf.

The possibility of punishing less than deserved is also normatively significant, but it provides a much weaker constraint.

While recognizing the element of genuinely enlightened reform, Foucault particularly emphasizes how such reform also becomes a vehicle of more effective control: "to punish less, perhaps; but certainly to punish better".

According to the elicited strategies, between 90% and 95% of subjects punish less harshly (in their initial response to a deviation) than implied by the grim trigger strategy, and do so in a way that depends on the size of the other subjectʼs deviation.

H.L.A. Hart puts this conclusion in the form of a rhetorical question: "Why should the accidental fact that an intended harmful outcome has not occurred be a ground for punishing less a criminal who may be equally dangerous and equally wicked?" (1968, 129).

For example, if assessments could be used less as a stick to punish the less "successful" and more as a guide to ensure that both students and teachers get the support and resources they need, would we look at tests differently?