Sentence examples for not a lenient from inspiring English sources

Luther was not a lenient parent — he used the whip when he felt he needed to, and poor Hans was sent to the university at the age of seven — but when, on his travels, the reformer passed through a town that was having a fair he liked to buy presents for the children.

Veteran sex crimes attorney Dmitry Gorin said recall attempts are rare and usually occur when a judge not only gives a lenient sentence but makes comments from the bench that indicate some abuse of discretion.

Finally, and most problematic, the P.K.K. is demanding the rehabilitation of its militants — including, if not actual freedom, then a lenient form of house arrest for Ocalan.

In fact, our social contacts on a day to day basis are not very lenient toward a blunt expression of these initial impulses.

He is a lenient teacher — "It is not a sin to be happy," he writes — and an empathetic one.

To confirm that our results were not a product of our rather lenient LD threshold, we ran a secondary analysis where one SNP from each pair of SNPs with an r > 0.2 was randomly deleted.

Judge Blackburn had already signaled that he would not be lenient in imposing a sentence.

Her illness must have come as a disappointment; life had not been lenient enough to let her keep her secret.

Even Fair Isaac says it's not surprised that its scores have missed the mark in a lenient lending environment.

Assad said his country was facing a "real war," warning that he would not be lenient with the terrorists he blamed for the unrest.

A bad relationship with a teacher can mean they are harsher when marking tests, or not as lenient if you forget your homework or get into trouble.