He gladly accepted the mitigated penalty.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to mitigate a punishment.    From Dictionary.com. 

But in a crucial departure from Empiricism and towards what might be called a mitigated rationalism, Kant also holds that not all cognition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Theory of Judgment] Reference

Kousari said that he expected, at best, a "mitigated" reaction from rich nations to UNCTAD's idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And Dimon's friends have also been reassuring investors that any regulatory impact will be "mitigated" by increasing prices elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Chen: We Will All Have to Pay for Financial Reform] Reference

As the document reaches us, it appears to have been "mitigated" by.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Knox and the Reformation] Reference

But a social worker found those risks had been "mitigated" and that funding could be "supported.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyee - Home] Reference

One suffering, however, was in his case somewhat mitigated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

Many, however, can be usefully mitigated when the time is ripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo To The 1993 Crowd: Believe In Yourselves] Reference

The ongoing misery caused by toxic chemicals must be mitigated.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Are Not Blameless] Reference

She was greeted by darkness mitigated by pin-thin shafts of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference

As a result, the immediate impact on coastal wildlife was mitigated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain] Reference

So concealed carry has mitigated dangerous situations like this in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Guns on Campus?] Reference

Infrastructure bonds are taxable so their effect on the deficit is mitigated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trey Ellis: We're So Ready to Believe Again, Part II] Reference

The industry was not prepared because it believed it had "mitigated the risk".    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics live blog Wednesday 15 September – including PMQs] Reference

The industry was not prepared because it believed it had mitigated the risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics live blog Wednesday 15 September – including PMQs] Reference

Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

Dis Union is mitigated into th'ee gran 'divisions -- de Bullshevik, de P'litical, an' de Social.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

I left a trail of derisive laughter in my wake, not at all mitigated by my grades, which were high.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference

Congress has neither uncovered the truth nor mitigated the risk of even greater future devastation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Tavakoli: Goldman Sachs: Bullies on the Block] Reference

 It's the same with this decision, it may have worked, but carried serious risks that were not mitigated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert L. Cavnar: Fishing On the BP Well: So, All This Was the Government's Idea?] Reference

It was accused of burying partially exculpatory evidence which mitigated some of the claims against McInnis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aaron Harber: The Nation's Political Testing Ground: Colorado Elections & Candidates] Reference

Hurricanes happen, but hurricanes that wipe out cities can be mitigated if natural barriers are left intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marc Stoiber: Rebuilding Cities in a Climate-Damaged World] Reference

It is not mitigated by any starring role in a future reality TV show or any amount of royalties or residuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morris W. O'Kelly: No Father Deserves the Montana Fishburne Porno Treatment] Reference

As it was, the sacrifice to his necessities which he intended to make was somewhat mitigated in its severity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Today, the heat might be mitigated by some thunderstoms, so either way it's going to be an interesting commute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storms wreak havoc on AM commute] Reference

And it found that drinking harms can be further mitigated by strict controls on liquor stores hours and advertising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public health impact of ABC privatization likely mixed, report author says] Reference

In consideration of this last action the doom that would otherwise have been his was mitigated into a nobler penance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Sinofsky's worries are mitigated by the fact that Windows 7 is one of the projects Gates will continue to follow closely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft After Gates. (And Bill After Microsoft.)] Reference

If unanticipated, they are extremely costly as their impacts cannot be mitigated in advance or soon after they take place.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Nowcasting' Holds Promise] Reference

So we got vets to go on pet blogs and post information that 98 percent of pet food was safe, which mitigated consumer anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toyota’s Digital Disaster] Reference

Many acquisition outrages could be avoided or at least mitigated by a more effective federal acquisition workforce in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Isenberg: When Doing More With Less Is Not A Good Idea] Reference

The supremacy of Victor Hugo has been, if not questioned, at least mitigated; other poets have recovered from their obscurity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It was the one thing that mitigated the onslaught of shame and guilt she felt pushing against her heart: no one would have to know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country House] Reference

The reproach was uppermost in her voice now, but she mitigated its severity by allowing him to retain possession of the hand he had seized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference