But when Gordon Brown suggested reviewing the tax regime governing the North Sea oil industry, one of the most lenient in the world, the oil giants threatened to pull out of the North Sea, resulting in thousands of job losses.
Arabs contrast the harsh punishment meted out to Iraq for disobeying UN resolutions with the world's lenient treatment of Israel, which has disobeyed far more, and for longer.Hardly surprising, then, that the first cracks in the Pax Americana should have appeared on the Iraqi front.
And for those in more lenient parts of the world, do as the book (which you can download here ) says and "cook responsibly".
The United States has the world's most lenient vehicle emissions and mileage standards, lagging as much as 10 m.p.g.
One of the world's most lenient tax havens, the principality of Andorra, announced in June that it would collect its first income tax in 2016.
Along the way, one of Israel's two chief rabbis, Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, nearly resigned after he was threatened with being "ostracized" by part of the strictly Orthodox world for his lenient position upholding the validity of the deed of sale.
Some payments by Unaoil were cycled through shell companies based in Delaware, a state with some of the world's most lenient incorporation laws.
Well, I wondered how many luxury brands will stay firm on those store policies, or will they become more lenient in this ever changing world of retail.
Italy has one of lowest prison populations in the world because of its lenient appeals process.
Vermont and Maine, for example, have some of the nation's ― if not the world's ― most lenient gun laws, but they also have some of the nation's lowest violent gun death rates.
Hamid Ghodse, an INCB board member, said it was regrettable that a "number of people have got a lenient response in the UK and around the world", although he declined to name the celebrities he had in mind.
