Sentence examples for was so lenient from inspiring English sources

A three-year inquiry by the office of the United States attorney in Brooklyn, prompted by the 1997 station house torture of Abner Louima, found that the department was so lenient with officers in excessive force cases that it had bred a climate that failed to deter brutal acts.

Not everyone is so lenient.

Another referee might not have been so lenient.

TSG have accepted his apology but the German FA might not be so lenient.

Other companies' policies are so lenient that no formal policy exists.

But will we be so lenient when news hits of the first fatality in a collision involving an automated car?

Even the librarians were laughing, although I'm not sure they'd be so lenient if it hadn't been 2am.

Its tax system has until last month been so lenient that most of the new copper profits have gone to the foreign companies that now own the mines.

As a result, Mr. Lembong said, many of the agency's restructuring deals are so lenient that they amount to big discounts.

"In being so lenient, we question if the court is sending out a message to other similar companies that sub-standard maintenance and blatant disregard of health and safety legislation is permissible".

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is so lenient on the banks it is supposed to regulate that it could be mistaken for a division of the United States Chamber of Commerce.