Sentence examples for receive lenient from inspiring English sources

Worse, they risk sending other rogue states the perverse message that the way to receive lenient treatment from Washington is to develop nuclear weapons.

That approach by China could be an effort to convince Mr. Lai that he will receive lenient treatment should he return, Mr. Matas suggested.

People accused of assisting with suicides in China are typically charged with murder, yet often receive lenient sentences, said a Chinese university law professor who requested anonymity because of the topic's sensitivity.

Among the major problems was that senior officials were often perceived as receiving lenient treatment for wrongdoing.

Why, she asks, was a writer like Brasillach condemned to die, while other figures who behaveds worse received lenient sentences?

THE idea of a football star receiving lenient treatment after testing positive for drug use would raise no eyebrows at most colleges.

The burden of these high payout rates has pushed six life insurers into collapse in the past four years, and has left others struggling to survive.Critics have long complained that the post office receives lenient regulatory treatment, having been overseen by the ministry to which it belongs.

Mr. Azhar cited cases in which military personnel received lenient sentences for serious offenses, as in 2003 when a military court sentenced four Kopassus soldiers who had been convicted of murder in the strangulation of Theys Eluay, a pro-independence leader in the restive eastern province of Papua, to prison terms ranging from three to three and a half years.

"Shoot the bloody shark, drop a grenade on it or something, blow the crap out of it," was the view of one local DJ, while a correspondent to The West Australian newspaper was more sympathetic, favourably comparing the behaviour of the great white to that of the "human scum" receiving lenient sentences in the courts.

Several current and former law enforcement officials said they were also troubled by the appearance that Mr. Smith, known to his friends and colleagues as "J.J.," may have received lenient treatment as a way of avoiding further embarrassment for the bureau in a case that threatened to expose national security secrets.

We would be appalled if persons who were rich and famous avoided prosecution or received lenient treatment because of their status, but we seem content to accept selective prosecution for the same reasons.