Sentence examples for lenient to the from inspiring English sources

To British and American eyes, elements of this look lenient to the point of parody.

The Bush administration was expected to be lenient to the tobacco giants and drop the lawsuit.Kirch Media, forced into bankruptcy last April, finally found a buyer for ProSeibenSat.1, its German television assets.

Uribe had launched and led the successful "No" campaign against Santos's peace deal, opposing it on the grounds that it was too lenient to the FARC, and also exposed government soldiers to possible war-crimes prosecution.

He is doing community service instead of prison because the Italian legal system is lenient to the over-70s.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi: "I thought the referee made a lot of mistakes and was very lenient to the French players.

On Christmas night, he depicted "a world which all too often is merciless to the sinner and lenient to the sin".

So, too, in his analysis of the two Germanies— with West Germany so much more lenient to former Nazis than the Communist East and in his description of the role of Jewish dissidents in the various movements of 1968, from Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in America to Mr Cohn-Bendit and Adam Michnik in Europe.What, in the end, was the common thread linking them all?

"We hope that the enforcement of this will also be lenient to allow time for the new charge to embed, not only with retailers, but also with their customers".

He wrote to Ross about a contributor whose work he disliked: "As a reporter who really never went out on a story without draining the essentials dry, it is hard for me to be lenient to a man who leaves the rewrite man fuming and cursing and asking for facts".

Doing this makes the teacher lenient to you.

It felt like ages since I had witnessed the lenient response to the first theft in the mosque.