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How to use lenience in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lenience? Here are some examples.

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They also call for more lenience regarding blacklist criteria, particularly for companies operating large fleets of ships.
American officials have expressed growing frustration at the government's apparent lenience.
Brazilian lenience with Argentina's abusive restrictions weakens, rather than strengthens, Mercosur.
The Constitution does not mandate lenience, forgiveness or forgetfulness.
Nana's mother's joy in these children, her father's reputed amused lenience, stung Nana.
The bank's capital base had been insufficient to absorb heavy losses, in part because of regulatory lenience.
Atkinson also showed lenience to Liverpool when ignoring Alberto Moreno's penalty-box tug on Romelu Lukaku.
Any lenience on our part would cast a shadow over EU credibility in this respect.
Mercy and lenience are asked for guilty persons: justice is all that an innocent man requires.
Our national governments must beware, for there is no room for lenience and fine feelings here: they can only lead to a lax and irresponsible attitude.
Several conservative pundits who had been implacably opposed to anything that smacked of lenience towards illegal immigrants are suddenly declaring themselves untroubled by the idea.
The Council must make publicly clear that the two fugitive indictees and those who protect them will not benefit from any lenience or any support from the international community.
In fact, they are still very much ethnically or regionally based and led by strong men, although leaders and parliamentarians show considerable lenience to change camps.
In response to the public expressions of anger at the perceived lenience of Homolka's sentence, an independent inquiry was established to investigate the circumstances underlying the Homolka plea bargain.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was plain that lenience was wasted in such a case, and simple imprisonment was not enough.
I thought it an odd example of lenience to allow the batsman as many strokes behind the catcher as he chanced to make.
If some gentlemen knew the facts that come to us, they would wonder at our lenience to their faults.
If God did not chastise sin, that lenience would argue that He was not all love and goodness towards man.
De Wet was once more given his life, and the other rebels were treated with a lenience which nothing but its wisdom could excuse.
He had inherited from his old Irish mother a certain mildness, and a lenience, where they were concerned.
Lenity is undoubtedly the proper word to use, though both Webster and Worcester do recognize leniency and lenience.
Given a bit of lenience by the handicapper in the meantime, he is now not badly off at the weights judged by his form earlier in the campaign.
Bonaparte has also been blamed for the lenience of his terms.
Shortcomings of this nature should be regarded with some lenience.
In April last year, Yadav provoked public outrage by seeking lenience for three people found guilty of raping a photojournalist in Mumbai.
He said nobody could be granted undue lenience, directing lawyers to approach trial court or a duty judge to get the bail on Thursday.
Agnew was a Sunderland player at the time, and commented to me that I was showing remarkable lenience and I suggested that he could perhaps help me out.
Referee Steve Lee showed little lenience at the breakdown though and the game continued in the same vein with kicks directed to the corner for the forwards to do their work.
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