Sentence examples for a very lenient from inspiring English sources

A yellow card was a very lenient punishment.

"It was a very lenient sentence," said Shahryar Khan, a retired diplomat and a former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, speaking by telephone from Lahore.

The environment minister, Greg Hunt, said ratifying Kyoto 2 sent a "very, very powerful symbol to the world" and also helped Australia meet its minimum 5% target by "carrying over" the amount by which it exceeded a very lenient target under the first Kyoto agreement.

On the other hand, the upper boundary of 200 samples represents a very lenient scheme for compressive sampling since it represents approximately 78% of the original samples.

The running battle between Costa and defender Skrtel was a theme of the first half, with referee Anthony Taylor taking a very lenient approach to the constant physical clashes between the pair, deciding to keep his card in his pocket.

At his trial, the court agreed that Peruggia committed the theft for patriotic reasons and gave him a very lenient sentence of one year and fifteen days -- he served only seven months.

Questioned by reporters just after Mr. Polanski's arrest, he said the filmmaker had received a "very, very, very lenient sentence" that "would never be achievable under today's laws".

In fact, our social contacts on a day to day basis are not very lenient toward a blunt expression of these initial impulses.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi: "I thought the referee made a lot of mistakes and was very lenient to the French players.

The number of components (Fig. 8A) increases from few very weakly connected components at very lenient thresholds to a larger number at more stringent thresholds in both G NC and G S. In G NC, the component count is stable for thresholds roughly from 0.3 to 0.7, illustrating the robustness of Neighborhood Correlation.

Reconstructionist - Very lenient in observance; pressing a mostly secular lifestyle.