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

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

He had rebuffed every overture to cut a deal, to plead, to inform on codefendants in exchange for lenience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

I thought it an odd example of lenience to allow the batsman as many strokes behind the catcher as he chanced to make.

From Roving East and Roving West by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)