leniency

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced the seizure and stated there would be no leniency or turning a blind eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Ahead of the verdict, a total of 13 petitions seeking leniency were said to have been submitted to the court.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

That tolerance became semiofficial policy in 2000, when North Korea promised leniency to those who had fled the country in search of food.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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