leniency
lenience

I make no case for leniency of treatment at all.

When we meet again, do not hope for similar leniency.

Little Bill had given the two men leniency, despite their crime.

You might be able to talk me into some degree of leniency with them.

"It still should be against the law, but some leniency is required."

No, really I think he has to grant a little leniency.

Yet the consequences of their leniency will be with us for a long time.

All they could do was make a plea for leniency.

What did matter was he knew he'd lost his plea for leniency.

Then, like today, his father's standing in the community brought relative leniency.

But his case went before a judge with a reputation for leniency.

And yet there was no room for leniency in the matter whatsoever.

I was watching a beg for leniency on my mother's part.

You can, however, call the professor and appeal for leniency.

He said politics had nothing to do with the leniency the president granted.

"Over the last two years, this administration has shown a policy of great leniency toward Israel."

As a practical matter, however, the department has often shown leniency in such cases.

But, at his trial, even the prosecutor asked for leniency.

In general, a player seeking treatment is given more leniency than one who does not.

In exchange for information, the police and prosecutors often offer leniency.

Its action came amid complaints from church members of leniency.

The problem was how far leniency could go in these exceptional circumstances.

As a sign of leniency, he first had their throats cut.

The defense sought leniency based on Libby's record of public service.

We are willing, however, to offer a leniency not required by the circumstances.

Again she pleaded for lenience, but his mind was made up.

Perhaps their lenience had something to do with the image the neighbors were able to project.

Neither mercy nor lenience were to be shown to her.

At such times, open communication between parent and child should be the focus, rather than punishment or lenience.

That lenience, if I am not mistaken, you will discover to have vanished.

In this view, no further lenience in sentencing is required.

The judge showed lenience with the accused because it was his first offence.

I think we were all pleased at this new lenience, effective as it still was, in the manner of our keeping.

But in its lenience and sweet ardor it was a characteristic gesture.

He has also evolved in terms of his lenience on spending, recently restoring money to social programs that last year were scheduled to be cut.

"Hitherto, at any rate, he has treated you with great lenience.

These incentives included more lenience on loan collection and full government funding for minority education.

Britain has a record of lenience in granting Iraqis' requests for asylum.

Consequently, they define many things in this world, whereas women treat them with lenience and compliance.

He has treated me with indulgence, lenience, privilege-I've never heard of the like!

If the jury says he needs lenience, the judge won't be able to ignore it."

This lenience is most dramatically revealed in the tax assessments of the peerage.

There are many, though, who would oppose my lenience."

I sat up, my neck-rope lengthened to permit me this lenience.

Why have I been treated with such lenience?"

But as I left I wondered at his compare five lenience.

No, I told myself, I should not have shown such a lenience to a slave.

This time the king could no longer act with lenience, and the next year the Duke of Clarence was executed.

He tried to remember those days back then when he frequently traded police lenience for sexual favors.

She said her client did not expect "lenience, mercy or kindness," but he had expected that the court would "observe the law."