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

While asking for lenience, Mr. Avenatti’s lawyers cited his history of championing “the voiceless and powerless.”

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 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

Now the same thing may give two very different impressions: while Petra was praying that the portrait might influence him to lenience, he thought it whispered: "Protect our child; take no stranger in to her!"

From The Fisher Girl by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne