Sentence examples similar to gestures of leniency from inspiring English sources

In the end, prison officials shaved one year off his 18-year sentence, a gesture of leniency often granted to inmates in failing health.

The decision to grant him a visa was a symbolic gesture of leniency by the junta, which released Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi after her term of house arrest ended 10 days ago.

We should see it with some degree of leniency.

"There's a certain amount of leniency required.

This assertion is met with disbelief and accusations of "leniency".

The Mutiny Act, then, was no measure of leniency for soldiers.

It deprives the police of discretion, and the public of leniency.

Within hours, however, another apparent case of leniency toward a pedophile priest emerged.

But the agency leans too often on the side of leniency.

It was not, in the end, that moment of leniency that turned the match around.

Robespierre dared not risk the countercharge of leniency to a former peer, and Biron was guillotined.