Although he proclaimed the plot of Tron: Legacy and its predecessor to be spotty, Ian Buckwater of NPR was lenient of the latter film due to its youth-friendly nature.
In 2008 he accused some judges of being lenient on gun crime by overlooking mandatory five-year sentences for possession of a firearm.
"If he had been judged by an international body, there would never be these thoughts that there was favoritism involved because he is Spain's most famous sportsman and the federation was lenient on him because of that," said David Millar, a British rider on the Garmin-Cervelo team who has been outspoken against doping.
Activists also called for the resignation of Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, who has a record of being lenient on police misconduct.
Passing sentence, magistrate Anthony Yuen Wai-ming stated that her offences would normally result in prison time, but he decided to be lenient because of her mental disorder.
There is no reason to be lenient," said the head of the liaison office, Zhang Xiaoming.
In a letter to Mr. Dimon on March 16, 2008, the day that JPMorgan acquired Bear Stearns, the head of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission wrote that while the agency couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't seek any penalties if it discovered bad behavior related to Bear Stearns, it would probably be lenient in its consideration of bringing a case.
One must therefore be lenient toward the imperfections of the molecular field methods, considering the simplicity with which the successes recalled in the first few lines of these conclusions were obtained.
The court's decision to have Chey Tae-won, 53, detained and dispatched to prison from the courtroom, pending his appeal, was highly unusual in South Korea, where judges are known for being lenient to powerful tycoons convicted of white-collar crimes.
