Sentence examples for exercising leniency from inspiring English sources

But the government could take other steps, such as moving some of the 700 ETA prisoners in Spanish and French prisons closer to the Basque country, or exercising leniency on day- and early-release programmes.

In addition, judges appointed by a Democratic President were 2.2percentnt more likely to exercise leniency.

Alex Balaroutsos, 29, of Bayside, Queens, who frequently has to stop his van in the bus lanes for appointments, said he would rather take his chances parking where a police officer was around; an officer may exercise leniency that a camera cannot.

"We consider giving you a chance to help us exercise leniency.

In a more extreme case of book borrowing delinquency, an Australian library exercised leniency after a first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's "Insectivorous Plants" was returned 122 years late.

"If two people are defaulting in a 200-unit building," Mr. Finkelstein said, "you can probably exercise some leniency.

You also suggest that the president's exercise of leniency may have been inappropriate.

Some people are genuinely unaware of the C.T.R. requirement, and their cases might be ripe for an exercise of leniency.

And he left open a major question: Will the new leniency encompass only a handful of prominent jailed politicians, such as opposition leaders Bekele Gerba and Merera Gudina, or the many thousands arrested for exercising their political views or doing their jobs?

Later, as the list drew to a close, with every choice at a premium, I cursed the leniency I had exercised towards the novels published between 1880 and 1930.

The second column (labeled "Raters") compares the raters in terms of the level of severity or leniency that each rater exercised when rating the essays.