Sentences with phrase «receiving less punishment»

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He faces up to 20 years in prison on one of the counts but is likely to receive less severe punishment at sentencing.

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

If you don't assume that the progressive rates are the «correct» rate, does that mean that anyone getting taxed less than 17.4 % is receiving a tax break, and anyone taxed more than 17.4 % is receiving a tax punishment?

Given Singapore's penchant for metting out serious punishments for various minor offenses that would not be criminalized elsewhere or would receive much less harsh punishments elsewhere, I would assume that any failure to observe «Tips for Riding» including 3.2 would be subject to serious fines and / or incarceration or corporal punishment until proven otherwise, possibly under an obscure legal rationale such as «failure to follow directions of bus driver» or something like that.