Sentence examples for by lenient from inspiring English sources

There the largest part of the problem was a housing bubble, brought on by lenient lending.

Some people whose ballots were accepted by lenient counties admitted in interviews that they had been in the United States and had simply waited too long before mailing their ballots.

Mr. Greenspan noted today that even with the strong economy, the federal deposit insurance funds had recently had some big losses caused by lenient lending standards and fraud at banks.

Nevertheless, even though the obvious character of most plant-related process innovations is frequently highlighted, the gene products of such methods may be considered as novel in the current patent paradigm characterised by lenient patentability requirements.

Those efforts are further thwarted by lenient regulations, as Congress supported the final version of a spending bill Nov. 17 that would allow tomato paste on pizzas to continue to be counted as a vegetable and blocks efforts to limit the use of potatoes in school cafeterias.

The New England Patriots quarterback is to appeal the sanction, which is viewed as draconian by some and lenient by others.

The measure, pushed by the National Rifle Association, would undermine legitimate states' rights by nationalizing lenient gun rules most states have rejected for themselves.

The lower costs are permitted in part by more lenient union regulations governing minimum wages and number of personnel.

But they still require companion federal controls if they are to be fully effective and not compromised by more lenient states.

But over 500, encouraged by the lenient if haphazard court sentences of their colleagues and the absence of reprisals, have trickled back in the other direction.

In order to justify giving Turner only six months in county jail, the judge had to determine that this was an "unusual case where the interests of justice would best be served" by a lenient sentence.