"relative" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But the ruling is a successful countermove by challengers to match the relative leniency of San Diego's rules for its defense teams.
- De la Gardie was treated with relative leniency, but he "received permission to retire to his estates for the rest of his life".
- But the government appears to have treated Friday's protests with relative leniency.
- The reign of James I was, in fact, a time of relative leniency for Catholics, few being subject to prosecution.
- Then, like today, his father's standing in the community brought relative leniency.
- The sentences could have been much longer, and diplomats attributed the relative leniency to Chinese concern about the reaction here and abroad to harsher sentences.
- Britain's lure, it seems, lies in the relative leniency of its immigration policy.
- If the alternative were a court martial, it seemed to many officers far better to dispose of the matter with relative leniency, informality and speed by ignoring the regulations.
- The defense lawyers attributed the relative leniency to Western criticism that the Government was rushing to send many fundamentalists to the gallows.
- In addition, Perkins noted that the Royal Navy treated American commerce with "relative leniency" during the wars, and many impressed seamen were returned to America.
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