• If they gave an account of their crimes, they would be treated more leniently.

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  • The regulator said the January papers were marked too leniently, but stood by the new June grade boundaries.

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  • It all sounds cosy, and indeed some western countries, America especially, believe Britain has treated its traitors absurdly leniently.

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  • In no other large country are options so leniently treated by the taxman.

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  • Because they are bigger and heavier like trucks, SUVs are treated more leniently by government rules on fuel efficiency and emissions.

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  • Indeed, in IBRA's rush to meet International Monetary Fund deadlines, there are criticisms that some debtors are being treated too leniently.

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  • Even some who oppose him want to see him treated leniently, while others "want to see him humiliated and punished, " Telhami said.

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  • But its regulators and politicians must now back up their hard talk with action even if other countries treat their banks more leniently.

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  • Many judges often seem to focus on the fact that no one was hurt, and so they treat these cases leniently often by sentencing offenders to probation.

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  • Already, after speaking about his torture, Chen Guangfu has, according to one lawyer, been warned by local authorities that his family may not be treated leniently.

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  • He denied the authority had marked papers more leniently this year after the debacle of last year, when the SQA issued 17, 000 wrong or inaccurate results.

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  • It also recommends individuals who grow a small number of cannabis plants should be treated leniently, to undermine organised crime networks that produce stronger types of cannabis.

    BBC: Possessing small amount of drugs 'should not be crime'

  • The 46-year-old said that the media were "baying" for the judge to make an example of him but asked Lord Bracadale to treat him as leniently as possible.

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  • There are some further subtleties (the tax treatment of partnerships is bizarrely complicated), but the bottom line is that investors holding MLPs that own depreciating assets are taxed leniently.

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  • Head teachers, teachers' leaders and pupils have complained that those who sat the exam in January this year were treated more leniently than those who sat it in June.

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  • Treating small landowners more leniently was both practical, he thinks they account for 90% of rural properties by number but just 24% by area and socially just: few could afford much replanting.

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  • The second weakness is that national bank supervisors get too close to the institutions they are supposed to be policing, and treat them too leniently, to the detriment of taxpayers and sometimes other countries that also suffer when a big bank fails.

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  • If a state is deemed to have dealt with its citizens too leniently, the case could go before the International Criminal Court but only if either the state of the perpetrator or the state of the victim is a signatory to the court.

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  • The latter has dug his team out of many a hole over the past couple of years, and the team management might be inclined to judge his current poor form leniently, but Ponting definitely needs a good series to keep his Test career alive.

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  • And I think it's worth recalling that effectively over the last two or three years we've been saying that crimes of violence committed with a political motive are less serious than other crimes of violence and those who perpetrate them can be treated more leniently.

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  • Anything lower reduces the expected cost of criminality, without doing anything to improve the probability of detection. (Treating whistleblowers leniently is consistent with this logic: letting them off punishment raises the odds of truth-telling, and therefore of detection.) There are plenty of arguments against ultra-high fines, however.

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