Sentence examples for or lenient from inspiring English sources

Debate continues about whether Griner's suspension was equitable or lenient.

Beyond that, evidence showed that prosecutors had concealed crucial discoverable material and that they had offered witnesses gifts or lenient treatment for unrelated charges.

But these two appeals court decisions have largely squelched that position, making it clear that judges can be as tough – or lenient – as they see fit, so long as the particular sentence is justifiable under the circumstances.

James Reston wrote, "The main charge against the press in general, though not against the few newspapers that exposed the deceptions of Vietnam and Watergate, is not that the press was too aggressive but that it was too timid or lenient or lazy".

Bradley Manning now elegible for release in less than 9 years, 4.4 in one calculation August 21, 2013 4.49pm BST From the Comments: there's a debate playing out over whether the verdict was severe or lenient (spoiler: most of you are arguing the former position).

Likewise for high-profile cases, once the trial concludes, judges put as much thought into weighing the political ramifications for innocence or guilt and imposing a harsh or lenient sentence, as they do the legal merits of the case itself.

Others might want to judge the work as too severe or too lenient, too judgmental or too forgiving of what is happening, or why it is happening, or wish to take exception with the author's understanding of the characters, or how these characters might have told their own story, which their creator garbled, and how, given their freedom, they would have made their own fate.

And because of that truth, there is often immense pressure to compromise your integrity: to pass a child who has not demonstrated mastery, to allow an extension on a paper you assigned two months ago, to give less homework or different projects or more lenient grades, because sometimes you are expected to avoid rocking the boat.

It is difficult to know whether this is due to information source, or perhaps too stringent a threshold on the imp test or too lenient on the pat test.

Yet skeptics remain, by turns attacking the agency as too tough or too lenient.

In such cases, Mr. Ashcroft advocates deferred-prosecution agreements or other lenient approaches to corporate wrongdoing.