Sentence examples for measure of leniency from inspiring English sources

"In seeking some measure of leniency," Mr. Shargel wrote to the judge on Wednesday, "we appeal not to sympathy but to reason".

Then again, you might decide, as the dons at Cambridge clearly did, that what had happened called for a measure of leniency.

As veterans find themselves skirmishing with the law, judges are increasingly finding ways to provide them with a measure of leniency.

So, with all due contempt for child molesters in general, I hope the case will be handled expeditiously, and if and when sentenced, that Polanski ultimately receives a measure of leniency.

A patient undergoing treatment with ephedrine outside of this trial may have to pay or apply for reimbursement of the tablets through a leniency measure of the health insurance provider.

We should see it with some degree of leniency.

This assertion is met with disbelief and accusations of "leniency".

It deprives the police of discretion, and the public of leniency.

Within hours, however, another apparent case of leniency toward a pedophile priest emerged.

Before the hearing, there had been a series of hints of leniency from the ruling elite.

But the agency leans too often on the side of leniency.