Sentence examples for offered leniency from inspiring English sources
People in the Iraqi hierarchy who help bring down the government may be offered leniency.
Then, once the accused were before them, they offered leniency in exchange for information.
The government has on occasion offered leniency to hackers in exchange for their help assessing the vulnerabilities of important computer systems.
Mortgage customers who were offered leniency on home loans will also get some redress because they faced charges on missed payments.
Chinese officials demanded the surrender of the "lawbreakers" in Lhasa and offered leniency to people who turned themselves into the authorities by midnight Monday.
Mr. Kouznetsov said that while he was jailed in the United States in 1998, Mr. Tobin visited him, identified himself as an F.B.I. agent and offered leniency if Mr. Kouznetsov would collaborate.
He pushed the S.E.C. to offer leniency for cooperating witnesses and to strike deferred prosecution agreements with companies that promised to behave.
And while Beijing may release more prisoners before the U.S. debate on trade privileges ends in June, it offers "leniency" only to those who recant pro-democracy views.
Following the lead of criminal authorities, the S.E.C. now offers leniency for cooperating witnesses who agree to give evidence against their co-conspirators, a strategy Mr. Khuzami has called a potential "game changer".
Victoria Atkins, a Home Office minister, backed a scheme being trialled in north London that threatens whole families in council homes with eviction and offers leniency to gang members in some low-level cases, such as possession of cannabis.
And last August, Attorney General Eric Holder offered some guidelines though ones the next administration can ignore that offer leniency to nonviolent drug offenders.
