Sentence examples for stiff guidelines from inspiring English sources

Most people would assume that this freedom would be easier than working within stiff guidelines.

But according to one player who attended the meeting, stiffer guidelines designed to protect players run the risk of actually endangering them.

With the budget on a stiffer guideline, the filmmakers were forced to cut scenes from "Kinetic", an episode that was caught in the push for more budget-friendly scripts.

The real challenge is for Congress to repeal the mandatory minimum provisions of the drug laws so judges can use the more flexible but still stiff sentencing guidelines.

With the introduction of stiff sentencing guidelines, prosecutors routinely "up charged" crimes, requesting maximal prison sentences in the event of a conviction at trial.

In sharp contrast to all the mortgages out there with stiff underwriting guidelines, New York's Low Interest Rate mortgages have no minimum credit score.

This has meant that Louisiana has some of the stiffest sentencing guidelines in the country.

Many of the accounts appear to hold less than $10 million in assets — a level that under stiff federal sentencing guidelines could still result in jail time of two years or more, depending on the amount owed, if the clients do not come forward and cooperate.

[C2.] Stiffer Regulations on Gene Patents New guidelines aimed at stopping companies from making frivolous attempts to patent genes before they really have any use for them were issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

She showed me other cases of hers in which the government insisted on holding to stiff parameters of federal sentencing guidelines that many concede are harsh and inconsistent, especially when drugs are involved.

The judge imposed the stiffest sentence within the federal guidelines, which recommended terms of 78 to 97 months.