leniency
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“No leniency, no turning a blind eye,” Salam said in his announcement of the explosives seizure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
He urged Governor Bill Lee to show leniency.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Clemency, meaning mercy or leniency, lets the president reduce the punishment for, or even forgive, federal crimes.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Nepal is cracking down on online abuse directed at survivors of last month's deadly floods, with Prime Minister Balendra Shah warning that authorities will "show no leniency" to people who "belittle" those who are suffering.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The police show leniency toward anyone at the camp.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
An executive at an Ohio company that makes natural gas engines argued that natural gas engines deserved the same regulatory leniencies as electric engines, which generate less pollution.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2020
The new legislation raised the threshold to $100 billion and instructed the Fed to consider leniencies for even larger banks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018
The apparent firmness of their control was enabling the Reds to introduce important leniencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
U.S. business has turned patron in a big way, partly out of tax leniencies, partly out of a new sense of community responsibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
The town, as Cantapresto had long since advised him, had its secret leniencies, its posterns opening on clandestine pleasure; but there was that in Odo which early turned him from such cheap counterfeits of living.
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
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