lenient
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The Attorney General's Office is considering whether Digwa's sentence should be referred to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme after receiving multiple requests.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
"It seems unduly lenient to me and has wider public interest beyond just the case itself in the message that it sends," she said.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
She appealed the verdict in the hope of clearing her name, while prosecutors also did so arguing that the sentence was too lenient and the acquittals were wrongful.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Several Commerce Department inspector-general reports have criticized FirstNet Authority for holding AT&T to lenient network standards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master: I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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