Sentence examples for the lenient from inspiring English sources

(The lenient Netherlands, interestingly, has one of the lowest rates of "problem" drug use in Europe).

Both of those sentences were overturned after prosecutors protested the lenient penalties and appealed the decisions.

Tall and sturdily built, with the lenient curves of absolute maturity, Anna Tellwright stood motionless.

Judge Rakoff noted the crucial role of cooperators — and the lenient punishments they receive — in the American legal system.

It felt like ages since I had witnessed the lenient response to the first theft in the mosque.

The country has agreed a date next week for the brothers' appeal against the lenient 2011 sentence.

But over 500, encouraged by the lenient if haphazard court sentences of their colleagues and the absence of reprisals, have trickled back in the other direction.

But by the early '80s, the lenient juvenile laws appeared ill equipped to deal with the harsher crimes being committed by juveniles.

The second treaty abandoned the lenient spirit of the first and exacted indemnities from France, partly in the form of territory and partly in money.

And those were the lenient ones.Some say clients are already shifting assets to more fortress-like jurisdictions like Singapore (such outflows are all but impossible to measure).

It didn't quite come to blows but the lenient gun laws of the Lone Star state made a mere punch in the head seem superfluous.