Sentence examples for he's lenient from inspiring English sources

An Etonian who goes on to Kings College Cambridge still has the right to come back here and carve his own name alongside those of Walpole and Shelley (later the headmaster tells me he's lenient on this; if any parents are prepared to pay for it, he'll see their boy's name engraved).

Lobby groups had urged Mr Zuma not to appoint Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng as South Africa's top judge, saying he was lenient on rapists, which he denies.

"He was lenient," says Shamim.

I explain that a company we own has a few local problems, but the longer term looks bright and can he be lenient about the money he has loaned us?

"He said that he was lenient with rules but that he wanted guys out on the field, doing exercises together, but, most of all, not thinking about their own statistics," Casey said after the Nets won their franchise- record ninth straight at home on Thursday over Orlando.

I recall him being lenient and adoring and fun.

So they're lenient that way".

I voiced my concerns to my landlord, who promised that if I really didn't like the area, he'd be lenient about letting me out of my yearlong lease, adding that he was sure I'd feel perfectly safe.

Dadis argued that he had been lenient with the opposition, and that his soldiers' response had been provoked.

Bowe was sentenced to 30 days in prison for the abduction; the judge said he was being lenient because of brain damage Bowe had suffered in the ring, which also caused his speech to slur.

The clerk says he'll be lenient: "I'm not going to hassle you every five minutes, but if there's a queue then you'll have to go back and pay more money".