Sentence examples for call for leniency from inspiring English sources

Yet his recent call for leniency for ZTE, a Chinese telecom company crippled by its punishment for violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and North Korea, showed that he would bend on a genuine security threat, analysts said.

But they noted that they deemed his offense to be very serious and that their silence should not be construed as a call for leniency.

Patriarch Kirill appeared annoyed by calls for leniency.

While deploring the killing, former commander Major General Julian Thompson has called for leniency.

Some have spoken out against Mr. Putin and called for leniency in the "punk prayer" case.

Alabama now stands alone, she said, in routinely allowing judges to override determinations from capital juries calling for leniency.

The United States, Ethiopia's ally in the war against Islamist terrorism in the Horn of Africa, called for leniency.

A number of those calling for leniency have referred to the Pussy Riot performers as "silly girls".

After Phillipos was convicted, the Globe weighed in with an editorial calling for leniency for him; there was no mention of the other defendants.

Although members of the Russian Orthodox Church initially called for leniency in the case, Patriarch Kirill later accused the performers of doing the work of the devil.

The novelist John Grisham published an op-ed piece calling for leniency, and the European Union sent a letter to Robert F. McDonnell, the governor of Virginia, asking him to commute Ms. Lewis's sentence to life because of her mental capacities.