(1) to be severe with oneself and lenient with others.

(2) As a first offender, he received a lenient sentence.

(3) He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.

(4) They believe that judges are too lenient with terrorist suspects.

(5) The sentence was criticized as being unduly lenient.

(6) In your case, we are prepared to be lenient.

(7) The police are sometimes more lenient with female offenders.

(8) Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.

(9) The judge was lenient with him.

(10) I hope the judge will be lenient.

(11) The judge was far too lenient with him.

(12) Imposing a lenient sentence for such a serious crime sets a dangerous precedent.

(13) School examiners say that marking has become more lenient in recent years.

(14) People say she was lenient with me.

(15) The judge agreed that it was unduly lenient.

(16) Ian Dobkin, defending(), asked for a lenient sentence.

(17) They are too lenient: that makes it flattering.

(18) Your father's too lenient to people like Tommaso.

(19) He was given a comparatively lenient fine.

(20) Federal agencies are more lenient that in the past.

(21) His parents are too lenient with him.

(22) He will press for stricter, not more lenient, pollution controls.

(23) This would be reflected in a more lenient sentence of 30 months.

(24) Hanging would seem quite a lenient sentence considering the enormity of his crime in those harsh old days.

(25) The appeal judge agreed that the original sentence was unduly lenient.

(26) It's a question of finding the mean between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.

(27) There is little evidence that harsher punishments deter any better than more lenient ones.

(28) On March 26 the prosecutors appealed to the Supreme Court because of what they considered the excessively lenient judgments.

(29) In the view of the Court the sentence was too lenient.

(30) Without question, many judges and sheriffs are far too lenient in sentencing people found guilty of violent crimes.

(1) As a first offender, he received a lenient sentence.

(2) The appeal judge agreed that the original sentence was unduly lenient.

(3) He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.

(4) They believe that judges are too lenient with terrorist suspects.

(31) That is a nearly four-fold increase over the number who lost out under the old, more lenient rules.

(32) How strict or lenient enforcement agents conceive them to be may well affect their enforcement behaviour.

(33) Stacey Koon was too lenient, in violation of federal sentencing guidelines.

(34) While supporting change to allow the Crown the right of appeal against too lenient sentences, I would advocate another change.

(35) The examiners who marked her A-level paper were very lenient and gave her a pass.

(36) It's stupid to boast about yourself. It's foolish to flatter and pamper yourself. It's wrong to be lenient with yourself. Dr T.P.Chia 

(37) The younger teachers generally had a more lenient attitude towards their students.

(38) The prosecution lawyer challenged the sentence as being unduly lenient.

(39) A previously blameless disciplinary record should have entitled Cooper to more lenient treatment,(http:///lenient.html) they argue.

(40) With regard to crimes that are known about, the police and courts may be more lenient with female offenders.

(41) Fortunately, his employer was lenient and he was let off with a caution.

(42) Special considerations: the Attorney General invited the Court to review the sentence on the ground that it was unduly lenient.

(43) The students argued that the school discriminated against them by applying more lenient standards to minority applicants.

(44) Many argue that such an appeal by the Crown against too lenient a sentence is simply not cricket.

(45) Second, the law is gender-specific, singling out women for more lenient treatment.

(46) It is curious to note how much more lenient society is to the cheat than to the spoil-sport.

(47) Since 1988 the Crown has also been able to appeal in certain circumstances against lenient sentences.

(48) He had an extremely strict code of conduct for himself and a lenient one for others.

(49) Having been too lenient in the early 1990s, it seemed, the regulator was overcompensating.

(50) Paul who were supposedly too earthly in their pastoral concerns and too lenient in enforcing doctrine and liturgical standards.

(51) Some police officers have criticized judges for being too lenient with car thieves and burglars.

(52) This and more already happens on satellite and cable channels, which are under the more lenient gaze of the Cable Authority.

(53) After a hundred miles he grew lenient and took out bread-and-butter sandwiches from the back of the car.

(54) Prosecutors asked for lenient sentences of between six and 10 years because they accepted the defendants were following orders.

(55) In the mid 1970s Soviet emigration policies became more lenient.

(56) The law on libel is considered too lenient.

(57) He is lenient to the children.

(58) She was very towardly and lenient.

(59) She was very lenient towards him.

(60) He decided to be reasonably lenient.

(61) Don't be too lenient with him.

(62) You should be lenient with them.

(63) If we are uncaring or too lenient.

(64) Clement: Inclined to be lenient or merciful.

(65) The judge was lenient with the wrongdoer.

(66) Ord Mantell has some of the most lenient banking laws in the galaxy.

(67) Germany had to ask, humiliatingly, for lenient implementation of the Stability Pact it had insisted upon, and the European Union agreed.

(68) He, too, received a sentence more lenient than the guidelines suggested.

(69) The bankers used these regulations for their special pleading, urging the government to be more lenient on them and to adopt more stringent regulations for their card holders.

(70) People that are low in self-control are usually relaxed, even-tempered, and lenient.

(71) At daycare Brian has to toe the mark, but at home his mother is quite lenient.

(72) Poor dear old Bishop Grantly had on this matter been too lenient.

(73) So I developed a writing program, and the most important thing is lenient.

(74) Vida was lenient to Carol at the surgical - dressing class.

(75) At daycare Brian has to toe the mark, but at home his mother"s quite lenient."

(76) If the law is too lenient, it will allow the Internet to be used as a means of instilling fear and organizing domestic terrorism.

(77) A more lenient reappraisal of Alister Hardy's aquatic origins theory might help.

(78) Later, people changed it into "Give the wrong-doer a way out. ", indicating to be lenient to the wrong-doers.

(79) He is too lenient. It is impossible for him to harm people.

(80) Direct interlocks are illegal in the U. S. under the Clayton Act(Sentence dictionary), but other countries are more lenient.

(81) The United States food and drug administration requires relatively lenient.

(82) In other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master.

(83) The lenient sentence passed on the convicted rapist caused such a hue and cry that questions were asked in the House of Commons and many people demanded a change in the law.

(84) "Compared with other developed countries, the nation has been lenient towards over-treatment and over-diagnosis and has failed to control the whole system strictly," he says.

(85) I'm lenient enough , Lord knows, but I don't propose to be imposed upon all the time.

(86) We American parents are not so lenient as some of you.