Sentence examples for demanding leniency from inspiring English sources
Remember, too, that Weinstein is the man who once wrote an essay demanding leniency for Roman Polanski, partially on the grounds that he too was a "great artist".
One can't help but be reminded of the joke about the chap who killed both his parents and then demanded leniency from the judge because he was an orphan.
While agreeing that the tax agency should be more flexible in defining need, she questioned the long-term impact of yesterday's step and predicted that victims of future disasters will demand the same leniency.
Unlike a smaller team sport like basketball or baseball (which Vandy has had success in), achieving success as a football program demands academic leniency on a grand scale, allowing less scholastically inclined student-athletes to play sports without being asked to excel in the classroom.
"If Colombia is going to offer lenient punishment for top guerrilla leaders guilty of war crimes, it's perfectly predictable that the military will demand that exact same level of leniency, including for horrendous crimes like false positives," he said.
"To have this person ask for leniency is absurd.
Chinese officials demanded the surrender of the "lawbreakers" in Lhasa and offered leniency to people who turned themselves into the authorities by midnight Monday.
During a raid on a Moussavi campaign office, he demands that a bearded Basiji (a member of the state's volunteer hard-line militia) produce a warrant, and refuses to "bow his head and hope for leniency" when the man rebukes him.
ABINGDON, Va., July 19 — A federal judge will decide on Friday the fate of three top executives of the drug company that makes the painkiller OxyContin, weighing their lawyers' request for leniency against demands for prison sentences from families of some overdose victims.
Wigley said: "The laws on leniency in sentencing need updating.
