Sentence examples for seek lenient from inspiring English sources

Ms. Harman, Democrat of California, was seeking to counter news reports that she had been overheard on a government wiretap agreeing to help seek lenient treatment from the Bush administration for the two lobbyists in exchange for support for her bid to be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Mr. Antenen would not discuss the case, but several officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the information that prompted the investigation came from a narcotics trafficker who began cooperating with the F.B.I. in an effort to seek more lenient treatment in his own case.

Indeed, because he was working with the F.B.I. and prosecutors — and he may have been doing so because he himself had been charged with a crime and was seeking more lenient treatment — he may have been motivated to ensnare the men who prosecutors charge made him a victim.

Instead, Mr. Loucks joined Skadden, Arps last July, and has startled former allies by emerging in recent months as zealous a corporate defender as he was a prosecutor, complete with proposals seeking more lenient treatment for the medical companies he once vilified.

Bosch had been seeking more lenient sentencing terms.

Also vulnerable are Justice Department guidelines set under President Obama that sought more lenient sentences for nonviolent offenders and restricted racial profiling and surveillance of Muslims.

That comment was an apparent jab at efforts by Justice Department officials to refocus prosecutors on seeking more lenient punishments for nonviolent drug offenders in an effort to deal with overcrowded prisons and to mete out punishment more fairly.

Tabloid newspapers such as the Sun and the Daily Mail hound judges who pass, or even seek to justify, lenient sentences.

His lawyers argued that he had received ineffective counsel and that the government broke an agreement to seek a more lenient sentence.

Lawyers for Mr. Pollard argued that he had received ineffective counsel and that the government had broken an agreement to seek a more lenient sentence.

Prosecutors have called his cooperation "groundbreaking by any measure," and filed the 122-page document to seek a more lenient sentence than the mandatory life term set forth in the advisory sentencing guidelines.