Example sentences for: lenient

How can you use “lenient” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Despite examples of terrorists entering from Canada, awareness of terrorist activity in Canada and its more lenient immigration laws, and an inspector general's report recommending that the Border Patrol develop a northern border strategy, the only positive step was that the number of Border Patrol agents was not cut any further.

  • LeBow's hope, which ultimately proved false, was that RJR investors would welcome a takeover if it would allow RJR to share in Liggett's lenient settlement.

  • ) The Post 's story focuses almost entirely on what it sees as the lenient consumer-privacy provisions in the bill.

  • The New York Times attributes the increasing number of A plusses and the decrease in C's and D's to "lenient professors and students who badger them for higher grades."

  • Could scans showing diminished impulse control—a function controlled by several regions of the brain, including the striatum and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—be used to support more lenient sentencing, or even acquit a defendant, because he couldn't control his violent impulses?


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