Cannot afford to be lenient.

You're too lenient on them!

Here, this is much more lenient.

You think the sentence extremely lenient. Thank you.

We're far too lenient. What'd you find out?

You must be lenient with me. It's only fair.

Giving her due respect for her age, I was being lenient.

I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner.

Mr. Solari Yrigoyen asked if it was true that overly lenient sentences were imposed for sexual crimes.

In reality, this fee is used to bribe test proctors so they could be more lenient with monitoring students.

Almost immediately, he launched another campaign to suppress counter revolutionaries, berating one province for being too lenient, not killing enough.

The man eloping with her is punished in a very lenient way and is fine without any harm, she said.

Moreover, because more people are evading taxes, tax administrations are under increasing pressure to become more lenient or to accept bribes.

Poorer and developing countries are often accused of being lenient towards drug production because they have few other meaningful economic options.

Another view was to have a fairly lenient safeguard clause so that applicants are not screened out right at the outset.

Indeed, with an increasingly lenient political regime, populism may become irresistible, while the size of the government bureaucracy may continue to bloat.

Israelis and settlers have continued to receive more lenient sentences in contrast to the harsher ones meted out to Palestinians having committed similar offences.

Rajoy was roundly rebuked for the form of his announcement, but its substance was proven right Spain s adjustment program is now being made more lenient.

He painted a picture of facts, events and developments concerning the islands and relations with Iran which do not stand even the most lenient tests of veracity.

And if you ask someone honest what should happen to whomever did forge those checks, an honest person is much more likely to recommend strict rather than lenient punishment.

The United States, in particular, has been far more lenient with regard to the repression of democratic movements in the Gulf than it was in Egypt, Tunisia, or Libya.

And if you ask someone honest what should happen to whomever did forge those checks, an honest person is much more likely to recommend strict rather than lenient punishment.

Perhaps we made the mistake of becoming too lenient regarding security arrangements, which we were keen to focus on when we were living in the areas controlled by the regime.

The Police strive towards raising the number of women in the police force, via affirmative action measures like more flexible working conditions for mothers and lenient policies for pregnant women.

After the Nationalist government collapsed in 1949, Mao s New China emerged. Almost immediately, he launched another campaign to suppress counter revolutionaries, berating one province for being too lenient, not killing enough.

This was largely a result of a very lenient senior director at the time, who was influential, and connected and above any censorship, and we were young and took absolute advantage of it.

The verdict was seen by many as too lenient and blamed the judiciary system who treated the case as Second degree murder as a result of severe beating instead of a First degree murder.

These problems are compounded by a history of statutory pardoning of prisoners as well as lenient sentencing of child sexual offenders resulting in a legal system which is unable to protect children and women.

Equating the object and purpose of the treaty with its essential provisions might encourage parties to be lenient about reservations which dealt with relatively minor issues but which affected the balance of the overall text.

This, together with the rule that all decisions, even in the area of state aid, must be approved by a majority of Commissioners, suggests that the Commission is set to become much more lenient on state aid and competition policy.

If it were not for these bitter historic lessons of broken treaties and the subversion of our independence through the stranglehold of Soviet Russian bases, we might be more lenient and understanding about the stationing of Russian Federation troops on our soil.

He refers to the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee with reference to the second, third and fourth periodic reports submitted by the State party, in which it expressed concern at the lenient sentences imposed on persons accused of torture and recommended that the State party impose appropriate punishments.

Fighting sectarianism in Bahrain should be a policy, and not a lenient preference. In a country where human rights activists and journalists get arrested for criticizing the government or insulting public institutions , isn't it more dangerous when prominent voices call for violent actions against other groups of people in the country?

The Saudi government document described visa procedures as very lenient, making it easy for Iranian, Iraqi and Lebanese nationals with foreign citizenships to obtain entry visas and offer help and guidance to the Shiite opposition. It called on the Bahraini government to tighten its grip on these procedures and close that loop hole.

Wang Zhenmin, the Director General of the Department of Law of the China Liaison Office criticised the Hong Kong government for being too lenient on pro independent activities and stressed that the idea of Hong Kong's independence should not be allowed into policy, legislation, the justice system, or primary and secondary schools.