Many observers believe the drug lords surrendered on the understanding that they would be treated leniently.

Fadak offered to be "treated leniently" in return for surrender.

Tending to nonconformity, he was treated leniently by the church authorities.

Though belated in their fire, men of crime were too earnest to be treated leniently.

However, the evidence does suggest that married women with a caring role are more likely to be treated leniently.

As a result of the 1997 budget bill, stock-market profits are treated far more leniently than income.

To dress a ham, signifies you will be leniently treated by others.

Many worried that the suspects would be treated leniently because of their ages.

Those who'd confessed had been treated leniently with hard labor in China's hinterlands.

That he would be leniently treated, I could not hope.