Sentence examples for lenient but from inspiring English sources

So far, stores have been lenient, but next season they're going to have a sales report.

Ms. Steckel was never lenient, but "I felt no great need to run everything," she said.

German expansionists sharply denounced the treaty as too lenient, but Kiderlen was able to retain his office.

"I think people are actually more … not lenient, but positive towards me because this is my first time," he says.

Martin Atkinson could possibly have been more lenient but Brown did jump in with reckless abandon and Sunderland will not win any appeal.

She says her party took the decision because of fears that changes to the fox hunting ban, such as allowing it for research purposes as well as pest control, would affect hunting north of the border, which is more lenient but is about to be reviewed.

A heavy fine is the most lenient option but there are rumours that he could be facing omission from the forthcoming tour of South Africa or even have his board contract terminated, thereby ending his career.

The number of new cases of apathy declined in 2006, after the Migration Board took a more lenient approach, but the illness is still being diagnosed in dozens of children.

There is no reason that because somebody is on benefits they should be given a more lenient route, but we always give people the option of bankruptcy if they prefer.' IVAs are the much-touted alternative to bankruptcy, which involves the debtor coming to an agreement with his or her creditors as to how the debt will be paid off.

A key goal of the proposed national bank supervisor would be to prevent banks from shopping for the most lenient regulator, but the plan doesn't seem to eliminate that risk entirely.

Wright pointed out that Marshall could have ordered Saunders to receive counselling on violence against women, which would already be a lenient sentence, but "that was completely ignored".