Sentence examples for they were lenient from inspiring English sources

If they were lenient, on the other hand, they would be pointless; they might even kid some investors into mistaking compliance for proof of rude health.

Richard Winger, an expert on electoral laws and editor of Ballot Access News, points out that there were no ballot-access laws before 1888, and that until 1930 they were lenient.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be a "good" child and not disappoint my parents even though they were lenient, fun and supportive.

If they're lenient about issuing them, one person can have multiple licenses".

If Mr Jebali keeps his post, he and his Nahda colleagues will have to move fast to dispel suspicions that they are lenient towards violent Islamists.

But the administration is wrong, he said, to make the case "a litmus test that if they are lenient, then all the deans and the president of the university will lose their positions in the same way".

Though elsewhere Mickenberg and Nel warn against trafficking in "the stereotype of the fat capitalist," they're lenient with Hoff, perhaps because the rotundity of Mr. His is so charismatic.

So they're lenient that way".

Perhaps they will be lenient when they know what you're up to.

"Before leaving, the officers told us they would not apply the rules to the letter, they would be lenient," he said.

But the sentences were lenient.