'leniency towards' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a lenient attitude, policy, or action taken towards someone or something. For example: The judge showed leniency towards the defendant, reducing the sentence from five years imprisonment to a probation period.
Others, with reason, fear that any leniency towards illegal immigration will simply cause it to increase.
Not, though, from the IMF, whose staff reversed their earlier leniency towards the country.
It could also stand for their legal system's traditional leniency towards politicians accused of corruption.
Asha Malhotra, a reader, wrote from New York: "The courts should show no leniency towards this doctor couple".
The House is more complicated: its Republican majority includes many fierce opponents of any leniency towards illegal immigrants.
Sadly, the only conclusion one can come to is that yet again the BBFC is showing leniency towards American cinema".
It ended two-all in terms of yellow cards only because the referee, Roger East, seemed determined to impress with his leniency, particularly towards the end when Eastwood, in their desperation to snatch a draw, dispensed with the game's finer arts in favour of the sort of earthy stuff that might have found favour with Eastwood's late and most lauded inhabitant, DH Lawrence.
It has tended towards leniency through the years, as Ernie Els and Palmer have discovered.
Great diversity among the world's prison systems makes it hard to detect a global trend towards leniency or toughness.
Although most French trials of political suspects have tended towards leniency, especially on appeal, Mr de Villepin could in theory face up to five years in prison.In some ways, the political consequences of the trial are likely to be limited.
After Friday's decision on Warner, it will be even more difficult for the government to reverse the trend towards leniency for rich offshore cheats that began with Olenicoff and is reinforced by he IRS' Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP).
