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.
