Sentence examples for plead leniency from inspiring English sources

An exchange of letters disclosed in court suggested Tian's father had written to the regulators to plead leniency.

Some came to the sentencing hearing to plead for leniency.

But the new competition commissioner, Joaqu Almunia, has so far shown a somewhat lighter touch, as more and more companies plead for leniency in tough economic times.

Hull will plead for leniency at tomorrow's meeting of the Rugby Football League's disciplinary committee in an effort to clear Lee Radford for Saturday's play-off derby against Hull KR, arguing that they and the prop have already suffered enough.

He both protested the anti-Communist excesses of the McCarthy era and defended Columbia for calling in the police during the 1968 student uprisings on campus, later appearing in court to plead for leniency for the 400 students who were arrested.

He ought to plead for leniency because he has maintained standards.

"We urge the criminals to surrender as soon as possible, to confess their acts in order to plead for leniency," it said.

The Rosenbergs were on death row for two years before Greenglass wrote a letter to President Eisenhower to plead for leniency.

I believe this is nothing more than a gambit to plead for leniency while awaiting for change at the Department [of Education] after Obama is gone.

Mrs. Plavsic's defense lawyers today pleaded for leniency.

Inevitably, an array of western governments and human-rights organisations have already pleaded for leniency.