Sentences with phrase «leniency when»

They tend to offer significant leniency when it comes to credit scores, income history, and other traditional underwriting factors.

Clearly, a person who commits a crime because he is acting in accordance with Aboriginal customary law may be less morally culpable than someone who has acted in an utterly contumelious way without any justification whatsoever and this may in appropriate circumstances be a ground for leniency when sentencing Aboriginal offenders: Hales v Jamalmira (supra).

Also, life insurance companies show leniency when edible and topical marijuana is being used by the applicants.

We had more leniency when raising Adelle since she came from a smaller school and before we chose a food we researched, talked to friends, family, our vet, and even chatted with a few of our fellow bloggers before making a final decision on a puppy food.

Failure to live by the terms, however, means that prosecutors would not be obliged to recommend leniency when Howe is sentenced for the crimes he has already admitted to.

It is perhaps just as well he remains busy, given that the U.S. prison service does not much allow for leniency when it comes to early release, and Black is likely to serve at least 85 per cent of his sentence, making him past 70 by the time he regains his freedom.

Not exact matches

This reminds me of how Abraham Lincoln responded when asked why he did not seek to destroy his enemies, but showed them leniency instead.

However, the function which religion strangely has very often served of creating divisions and animosities was manifest as early as the time of Elijah, when the prophets denounced and threatened Ahab for leniency toward the defeated Ben - Hadad.

Similarly, when one examines the treatment of slaves encouraged by the biblical writers, it is decidedly more generous than that of other cultures... although the categorization of slaves as property, the use of slaves for reproductive purposes, and leniency regarding beatings, remains troubling, or «needing further movement,» according to Webb.

When Americans heard about the trial, many asked the court for leniency.

It is often the consequence when you give your child things in place of love, such as material possessions, lowered expectations, and leniency.

I fully concur with Senator Ball on this one.Leibell and company dishonestly framed this all as reasonable requests for leniency, as if what he had done was not so bad (and as if he had contritely cooperated with authorities), when in fact the former State Senator has been defiant in NOT helping Federal prosecutors — AND some of the letters in Leibell's behalf came from people who are still being actively investigated by Federal prosecutors.

«Speaking of traveling to federal court, when Domenic Recchia went there last month to plead leniency for Colombo crime boss Carmine Persico's mobster son - in - law, did Carmine pay for Domenic to get there in a fully stocked stretch limo?

The criminal prosecutions spawned by the CityTime case reached a quiet denouement when a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Carl Bell, a computer specialist at the center of the scheme, to three years» probation, showing leniency because he had given crucial help to investigators.

The court document, a memorandum from Huntley requesting leniency because of her cooperation with FBI agents, was originally sealed, but a judge ruled Tuesday that it be made public when news outlets including DNAinfo New York made requests.

This article was originally published with the title «Lunchtime Leniency: Judges» Rulings Are Harsher When They Are Hungrier»

It is hard to show leniency and maintain legitimacy in the public eye when you're dealing with a repeat offender, and judges are seeing more of them than they have in the past,» he said.

You'll find if you give yourself some leniency with the occasional treat, instead of banning it completely, when you do have a splurge it won't be disastrous.

Many civil rights leaders and teachers called for leniency, and some wondered why black teachers in low - income neighborhoods faced racketeering charges when white Wall Street workers who were implicated in the subprime mortgage crisis did not.

When the Atlanta educators were convicted this month, the Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said they were «victims of a corrupt education system,» and she called for leniency and no jail time.

Public school advocates have charged Bennett gave preferential treatment to a favorite charter school in 2012 while denying the requests for leniency under the rating system when deciding which schools to take over in 2011.

When he came to court to ask for leniency as her pastor, I viewed him as a hypocrite.

There never seems to be any dynamics to the situation to provide an ounce of leniency in certain circumstances such as a rival driver aggressively hitting your car as you are approaching a corner resulting in your car being forced off the track only to be warned for exceeding track limits, while the same could be said for full wet track conditions when accidentally aquaplaning into another car or off and back onto the circuit through a corner.

I'd usually consider that a one - off, but when almost everything seems to be hanging on by a thread my leniency drops off.

The reality is you will be penalised when you feel validated in your actions, there is no appeal, there is no leniency, just the controlling verdict of AI.

When it comes to sentencing, it sometimes seems that last - minute remorse, in the form of cooperation with prosecutors (case in point — Enron's Andy Fastow and his six - year sentence) buys more leniency than a long history of good deeds.

With Britain's future generations lacking in numbers when it comes to professional skills, is leniency in law the right way forward?

Hershey disclosed its privileged information to the Bureau when it chose to participate in the Leniency Program.

It is notable that when DPAs were first mooted the Government said such waivers would never be demanded and so cut across the Office of Fair Trading's policy on cartel probes where leniency is sought.

When the Financial Services Authority (FSA) introduced a similar leniency scheme it reported that calls to its dedicated whistle - blowing line doubled between 2007 and 2009.

The Americans invented the immunity programs when the U.S. Department of Justice («DOJ») Corporate Leniency Program was introduced in 1978, but it was not until it was reformed in 1993 that a significant number of immunity applications were received.

The cleaner your record, the greater leniency an insurance company is likely to offer when it comes to hitting you with their costlier DUI rates.

When you prove yourself by showing up and doing your work well, you will be given much more leniency on how you handle your schedule and work in general.

This lending leniency, he says, has actually worked to lower the overall delinquency rate for its multifamily loans to 0.15 %, compared with a level of around 2 % when the program originally started in the late 1980s, says Davis.

Because of FHA's leniency, some borrowers with past credit problems elect to use FHA for loans when they have a substantial down payment rather than getting a higher interest rate conventional loan.