In a surprising act of leniency, the board ruled that he could accept the $25,000 package, an amount that "would clearly violate" the charter absent board permission, on the condition that he no longer patrol the area around Macy's flagship store in Herald Square.
Irene Khan, the secretary general of Amnesty International, said in a statement in London that, while the Myanmar authorities "will hope that a sentence that is shorter than the maximum will be seen by the international community as an act of leniency", it "must not be seen as such".
Despite Obama's perspective, Manning's release could be viewed as an act of leniency, a signal that others might escape decades of prison time if they, too, were to violate their oaths of secrecy and reveal confidential public information.
The narrator also goes to great lengths to describe Edward's other virtues: his kindness to his tenants on his country estate, his acts of charity, his leniency as a magistrate, his ultimate refusal to compromise his ward Nancy.
"This criminal behavior must be rooted out, and everyone knows where the roots are: in the incitement of the settler rabbis, in the Israeli governments that over and over again approved the settlers' illegal acts, in the leniency of the judges and in the powerlessness of the Shin Bet, the army and the police".
The Mutiny Act, then, was no measure of leniency for soldiers.
Until UEFA is sure of winning, clubs who flout the regulations hope it will act with leniency, lest it leave itself open to huge compensation claims from clubs barred from European competition.
Matthew J. Feeley, a lawyer with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney who works on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases, said companies had incentives to go to the government on their own if they suspected the act had been violated in the hope of getting some type of leniency.
She emphasized that Eichmann took enormous pride in his initiative in deporting Jews and also in his willingness to disobey orders to do so, especially Himmler's clear orders — offered in 1944 in the hope of leniency amid impending defeat — to "take good care of the Jews, act as their nursemaid".
Under federal sentencing guidelines adopted in 1991, companies convicted of criminal acts could win leniency if they had procedures to ferret out illegal conduct.
We should see it with some degree of leniency.
