Sentence examples for a lenient judgment from inspiring English sources

Keating asked that Lincoln be given a lenient judgment by the FHLBB, so it could limit its high risk investments and get into the relatively safe home mortgage business, allowing the business to survive.

Keating was asking that Lincoln be given a lenient judgment by the FHLBB, so that it could limit its high risk investments and get into the safe (at the time) home mortgage business, thus allowing the business to survive.

Prosecutors had tried to battle Ms. Stewart's claims to a more lenient judgment.

Even when critical, Mr. Bush has reflected a pragmatic view of China and has offered a far more lenient judgment of its internal affairs than those of other authoritarian governments, including Myanmar, Belarus, Iran and Zimbabwe.

He added: "This is not, in all the circumstances, a case which is unduly lenient". Judgment was reserved in the application, with Sir Declan pledging to deliver the verdict as soon as possible.

As Burkhardt wrote of the "Santa Claus" Symphony in The Albion, it demands attention for more reasons than one: "It is American; it is homemade and therefore entitled to fair hearing and to lenient judgment... and although it cannot be called a first-class work, yet its merits are great enough to command our respect and attention".

The worst example of this I have seen is the recent judgment in the manslaughter case of a Texas teen who received a lenient punishment on account of his affluence.

The ref takes a lenient view.

Privately, he was a lenient, adoring and adored man.

In essence, birtherism is a lenient dividing line.

In Marylebone they take a lenient view of sleepers.