Word: leniently
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...January, Kostunica signed a much criticized privatization deal in Moscow, allowing Russia's oil giant Gazprom to assume full control over Serbia's oil and gas industry for just under $700 million. Tadic was skeptical about the deal - experts and even some government ministers felt it was too lenient towards Gazprom - but he stopped short of openly opposing...
...British made a major mistake neglecting to place the British Council's activities in Russia on a solid legal base," a senior MFA official told TIME. "We have been lenient for 14 years." The official didn't beat around the bush as to why the "lenience" abruptly ended: "It's in tune with the general deterioration of our relationship with Britain, there is no denying that. Otherwise, we could have kept looking the other...
...also noted that the election commission, whose members have all served on it in the past, had already been very lenient with the Willey-Snow ticket, making it unlikely that the penalty would be further softened...
...None of us have seen the type of repeated violations that this campaign is committed,” he said. “And none of us can remember being so lenient towards any campaign more than this one.” So far, the ticket has been cited frequently for postering and other e-mail violations...
...reaction by most Sudanese to Gibbons' lenient sentence was mostly benign; still, the government's fears of a larger backlash bordered on paranoia. Riot police were deployed, and Internet access to some stories was denied. Lord Ahmed, one of a pair of British parliamentarians who traveled to Khartoum as private citizens - and as co-religionists with the Sudanese - to secure Gibbons' release, told TIME that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir admitted to them he was weighing a retrial - on stricter charges...