Sentence examples for leniency against from inspiring English sources

England, avoiding leniency against short-staffed opposition, struck again four minutes later.

On Sunday, the interior minister, Magdi Abdel Ghaffar, said there would be no leniency against any "any attempts to destabilise national security and any vital public or police facilities".

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.

As in the Stanford rape case of Brock Turner, a victim has to face a system that shows greater compassion and concern for the perpetrator of a sex crime, using alcohol as both the damning evidence reasoning her attack and the excuse for leniency against her attacker.

There has long been speculation that the prosecution was hoping Mrs. Raisch would confess to involvement and, in exchange for leniency, testify against Mr. Mangelsdorf.

And many gay rights advocates have argued against leniency, to reinforce the message that Mr. Ravi's behavior should not be written off as teenage foolishness.

The result went against the apparent mood of the electorate--to wit, a sort of center-right status-quo complacency, vaguely hospitable to conservative attitudes (for "family values", against leniency toward criminals, etc).

That prompted a second outcry, this time against his leniency.

After community outrage over the sentence, the DPP announced it would appeal against the leniency of the decision.

When the court passed a life sentence (rather than a death sentence), the crowds that gathered to protest against this leniency were the biggest that had been seen in Dhaka for 20 years.

But that will probably change, as prosecutors deploy "flipping" tactics honed during racketeering trials, in which lower level employees receive leniency in return for testifying against their bosses.One popular tactic prosecutors have used against bosses is to contrast their public statements about the health of their company with evidence that suggests they privately knew it was in trouble.