Sentence examples for to leniency from inspiring English sources

The jury found the prisoners guilty and recommended them to leniency, asking the judge to take into consideration the political motives.

Tilting to leniency and reconciliation, the Oradour court returned light sentences (by 1958 all those convicted had been amnestied).The news was greeted as "a second martyrdom" for Oradour and survivors gave back decorations bestowed after the war.

The judge gave him a reduced sentence of six months in prison after his wife argued that the long trial and Mr. Rathore's age, 67, entitled him to leniency.

In December 1854 he began to publish dozens of short, shrill pieces insisting that what passed as Christianity in Denmark was counterfeit and making clear that Mynster and Martensen were responsible for reducing the religion to "leniency".

It is unclear whether any deal would be tied to leniency in the separate, criminal trial of Mr. Khodorkovsky, which resumes July 12. "That is a huge question," the board member said.

"We will have to wait and see whether there is consistency and durability in application of a high standard of conduct, backed by strong investigation and discipline with penalties, or whether this is a one-off, and we go back to leniency and complacency," Ouseley said.

Begg said that groups had approached him to try to put pressure on the government to show leniency to disillusioned fighters returning.

Mother Teresa asked the court to show leniency to Keating, in recognition of the considerable sums he had donated to her charitable operations.

But the proposed loosening of the act's regulations goes beyond guitars, to extend leniency to importers of foreign "non-solid wood products".

They were lucky, too, that the referee, Mark Clattenburg, opted to show leniency to Rafael da Silva after his handball had given Gerrard his first chance from 12 yards.

He called on the Department to "demonstrate leniency" to Corinthian.