lenience

Example Sentences

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"It's difficult with professors who themselves have busy schedules, trying to say, 'oh, can I have a 20-minute lenience window?' It's quite embarrassing."

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

Tara worked for Community United; many linebreakers probably did, feeling protected by the consortium’s comparative lenience.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022

Her lawyers say they hope such testimony will bring lenience from the judge, who they say under Russian law has leeway to consider mitigating factors.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022

But a defense lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, made a case for lenience in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, as a crowd of Mr. Philbrick’s supporters looked on from the gallery.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

If I thought it would be of any use, I should like to supplicate you most humbly to deal with lenience when you come to tax these people who are under you.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright