leniency
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Halem argued for leniency through his attorney, telling the court he was a father and the sole breadwinner in his household.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The judge “withheld” a formal conviction, a form of leniency in Florida.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Amundson and Zemian’s hopes that their behavior would warrant some leniency were quickly dashed.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
That is the same form of leniency that prosecutors granted to Alibaba and EagleBank, which requires them to admit wrongdoing but spares them from being charged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Well! Is that the kind of leniency you show your boys on their math and French in school? They must never learn anything!”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
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 apparent firmness of their control was enabling the Reds to introduce important leniencies.
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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