Sentence examples for could be lenient from inspiring English sources
"I am humbly asking if you could be lenient on me".
"I was told that while she was on her deathbed, she was crying and kept calling my name," he wrote, adding, "I am humbly asking if you could be lenient on me".
Niall Murphy, a lawyer representing the families of some of Mr. Haggarty's victims, said it was traumatic for the families to sit in court on Friday and hear Mr. Haggarty plead guilty to the murders, knowing his sentence could be lenient.
To the faults of the men, even to the mistakes of his officers, he could be lenient: but to the real sins of a soldier — cowardice, mutiny, desertion — he showed no mercy.
It could be as lenient as putting a disciplinary letter in her personnel file, or as severe as ordering that she be defrocked or even excommunicated.
Recent guidance suggests that the IRS could be more lenient in the future, but the IRS's definition of leniency can still make the OVDP a very good and very certain deal.
The deal, if accepted, stipulates that the former council members will be sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison, though the judge could be more lenient and give them shorter jail terms or even probation.
Barring any of these possibilities, it's possible the EPA under the new administration could simply choose to be lenient when working with individual states on their compliance with the rule.
Be lenient: Let not the touch of hand.
