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How to use leniently in a sentence

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Technically he is out of the 2001 championship, but he is likely to be treated leniently by the Executive at tonight's meeting.
If women are treated more leniently, it may be that there is a pervasive view that no real harm is done.
It is true that authorities feared he was a potential leader of a millennial revolt and they treated him leniently lest he become a martyr.
The speed limit is generally leniently enforced, and pilots are often allowed to travel faster to relieve possible congestion on runways.
Community legislation does not go far enough and, what is more, in many cases it is disregarded or applied too leniently.
Last night, critics of the service suggested overworked and under-resourced prosecutors were dealing leniently with many offenders simply to clear enormous backlogs of cases.
The government claims that huge benefits will flow from taxing property companies more leniently than other firms.
The Guidelines also state that recurrent injections of aid in an assisted area will not be viewed any more leniently than in non-assisted areas.
Boys get labelled, which leads to tighter monitoring of their behaviour, he says, while girls are treated more leniently by the police.
Then he began to have a faint inkling that he was being treated leniently, and to think that they had done kindly by him, in not yielding to his wish.
But, in some instances, higher courts overturn these initial verdicts and act more leniently, in accordance with democratic principles.
Even if prosecuted, they are sentenced leniently.
The US approach treats very leniently restrictions that concern the exploitation of the IPR itself when the licensor and licensee are not actual or potential competitors.
This means that other countries will try to acquire such weapons in the belief that States that have yet to accede to the NPT are treated very leniently.
Accordingly, any practice suggesting members of certain groups are being treated either more harshly or more leniently because of their race undermines criminal justice.
The ICC's association with the GoU and the fact the ICC was requested by GoU to investigate the LRA adds to the view that the ICC has been manipulated by the government, and that the ICC has treated the government leniently.
All attempts by the Council to treat such entrepreneurs more leniently than Parliament wanted at first reading would have unacceptable consequences.
This highlights one of the most sensitive areas of FCPA investigation, how those suspected of wrongdoing should be treated, in order to maintain their cooperation, without treating them too leniently.
Japan currently treats leakers more leniently than other countries do.
However, attempts to ban folk plays were more leniently applied and less successful that once assumed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thus in every way the Inquisition dealt with him as leniently as they could.
Dr. Archie swung round in his chair and looked at her, honestly and leniently.
Thus to describe an uncle as a parent is an error not uncommon in palaeontology, and it was treated leniently by Huxley.
How leniently, then, should we deal with those who labor for our pleasure in these capacities!
The chiliastic writers are perhaps more inclined to view Montanism leniently.
The prisoners appear to be leniently treated, and those who are unconvicted are permitted to purchase such food as they please.
I don't see how you can speak of it so leniently as you do, Mrs. Bowen.
That she should have been treated so leniently and Jeanne so cruelly!
Would that we might all be judged as leniently by future critics!
There was one person among his new acquaintance in Surry, not so leniently disposed.
It was not urged against him, though many another, who manifested it in no greater degree, was less leniently judged.
It matters little now, except as it may dispose you to think more leniently of his errors.
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