Some said it was a smokescreen; Piontek was open about the fact he wanted to take advantage of Turkey's lenient tax laws, yet says he would have stayed but for that story.
Critics say the sentence was too lenient, arguing that yet another college athlete's wrongdoings were treated lightly at the expense of a female sexual assault victim.
Yet any lenient bemusement vanishes on imagining the reaction of someone who had no idea who Doherty is: "Hey, who was that terrible actor playing the lead guy, the one who describes himself as a 'libertine'libertine
Use an even tolerance when waiting for your purchase or, better yet, be lenient if your order came out wrong.
She was a staunchly religious Muslim, and yet she was lenient with me.
People accused of assisting with suicides in China are typically charged with murder, yet often receive lenient sentences, said a Chinese university law professor who requested anonymity because of the topic's sensitivity.
Yet sometimes the system is too lenient.
And while it's been lenient enough not to kill most of us yet, the government spies on us every day with digital edifices that rival the Great Pyramid of Cheops.
Yet, as the Washington example illustrates, a lenient charter-school law can give parents what they most crave, an alternative.
