leniency

Clemency, meaning mercy or leniency, lets the president reduce the punishment for, or even forgive, federal crimes.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

He puts the authorities' leniency down partly to the tidy and spartan way he operates his business: a bench, umbrella, card reader and table that he folds up and carts away each evening.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 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

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 nineteenth-century prescriptivist Richard White had no luck banning standpoint and washtub, nor did his contemporary William Cullen Bryant succeed in outlawing commence, compete, lengthy, and leniency.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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