Sentence examples for to show leniency from inspiring English sources

If it did not, the attorney general had the discretion to show leniency.

If it does not, the attorney general has the discretion to show leniency.

Mr. Roux argued that there were "substantial and compelling circumstances" to show leniency.

Basque activists, who have long called for the government to show leniency toward ETA prisoners as a good-will gesture, cheered the ruling.

A Harlem woman who was shot in the stomach by a teenager aiming at rival gang members asked a judge on Tuesday to show leniency in his sentencing.

The official account of the trial also emphasized arguments from both the prosecutors and defense lawyers asking the court to show leniency toward Mr. Wang.

The problem with dismissing out of hand the criminalisation of minors is that it could extend to showing leniency to 17-year-olds who make and distribute images of younger teens.

Given the leniency South African courts used to show towards white people killing black people, it is hard to see how the court could show leniency to a white person killing another white person.

Wednesday's decision raises the question of whether Russian courts will also show leniency to Mr. Khodorkovsky, who is serving 13 years in prison.

But cases in which federal judges show leniency to defendants who are not cooperating witnesses have increased by one or two percentage points a year since September 1995.

"It is good and necessary to have flexible approaches sometimes and somewhere," he said, citing a theory he called "heroic leniency," in which "you can show leniency to the rival, while never forgetting his goals".