'lenient about' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about someone or something that is not strict or harsh in their treatment of someone or something else. For example, "My employer is lenient about my holidays, so I can usually take time off when I need to."
And the government is lenient about collecting fees.
And other European countries are lenient about stronger drugs.
We are not lenient about cheating; we sympathize with Kris Pister's policy.
They hope the headmaster will be lenient about their school fees, which are eight months overdue.
If they're lenient about issuing them, one person can have multiple licenses".
So far, stores have been lenient about that, but next season they're going to have a sales report.
The same poll found that 38percentt of Americans think the sentences usually given for drug crimes such as possession or sale of illegal drugs are too harsh, while a combined 43percentt said that those sentences were generally too lenient (23percentt) or about right (20percentt).
But there are other, much less lenient views about responsibility for the harms of oppression that some feminists and race theorists advocate.
Michele Moody-Adams defends a less lenient view about responsibility for oppression than Calhoun's, dismissing in many cases the role of culture as a factor that justifies willful moral ignorance and that on these grounds exempts from responsibility those who act wrongly (Moody-Adams 1994).
"Trials are typically more about pleading for a lenient sentence than about seriously contesting the merits of the charges". Most think it unlikely that Bo will face murder charges, not only because the party announced his case and his wife's separately, but also because it would take the party into extremely uncomfortable territory.
We should worry about lenient sentences and ambivalent public attitudes, which mean rapists aren't sufficiently afraid of being condemned and punished.
