Eksempler på leniently

• If laws are used to govern them too severely, there will be unspeakable difficulties; and if too leniently, violations are bound to be very numerous.

• Most of this grumbling by local officials centred around the claim that inmates were treated too leniently.

• They were leniently treated with regard to the land tax (and were not asked to pay it), because they were close to the king.

• Thus, the finding that the leniently scored nonword repetition measure explained significant variation in subsequent vocabulary, after the appropriate controls, should be regarded with caution.

• Since serious cases were handled leniently, the offenders went unpunished and people who had been wronged did not dare to come forward.

• He was treated leniently, even in prison.

• It was wrong that illegal entry should have been treated so leniently until then.

• I believe that it is due to the natural and excusable, but regrettable, tendency of magistrates' courts to deal too leniently with motoring offences.