Sentence examples for get more lenient from inspiring English sources

Sergeant Gibbs's lawyer, Phillip Stackhouse, tried to convince the panel that most of the soldiers who accused his client were doing so to get more lenient sentences, and that accounts from the soldiers differed.

According to Transport & Environment, an environmental group, those concessions mean that very heavy cars like SUVs get more lenient emission targets than cars that might carry the same number of passengers but are far less polluting, like family cars.

Rizk said that Dar al-Tanweer did bring copies to the Abu Dhabi international book fair, which opens on Thursday, saying that "the fairs always get more lenient procedures".

Critics of the lower court's decision also said that double standards had been applied in Ms. Wu's case: well-connected defendants convicted of financial fraud appeared to get more lenient sentences, they said, than did Ms. Wu, a self-made tycoon who quit school as a teenager.

Attractive defendants are likely to get more lenient sentences, or to escape conviction entirely; attractive plaintiffs, meanwhile, are more likely to win their case and get bigger financial settlements.

A Kenyan athletics coach recently told the AP he knew of three marathon runners who bribed officials to get more lenient punishments after failing doping tests.

Could it be that the marking has got more lenient?

He said the prosecutors had misused their power in pushing for the longer "sledgehammer" sentence for "street activity" that often got more lenient treatment.

Have they become more lenient?

In turn, the public must become more lenient with experimentation as government tries to act boldly.

Fortunately, Apple's been getting more and more lenient over the past few months.