Meanings of show leniency in English

Her family later asked the court to show leniency for Ayala.

Defense lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to show leniency.

His defense this week has called witnesses intended to persuade a military judge to show leniency.

A matter on which I was less inclined to show leniency was that of our devotions.

Prosecutor Reed Brodsky asked the judge to show leniency toward Devlin because he helped convict the four men.

The British government has generally encouraged businesses to show leniency towards partners driven into trouble by the novel coronavirus.

Later on Wednesday, the White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, urged North Korea to show leniency for the 21-year-old student.

To tolerate it, in however slight a degree, to show leniency, however leniently disposed, would entail having recourse to still harsher measures to-morrow.

Germany will not show leniency on the need for structural reforms, such as cracking down on tax evasion and slimming down the civil service.

Warmbier's parents pleaded with the North to show leniency, citing his youth and the fact that he had made a full confession in public.

He would still be the doge and Virginius; he alone must be the judge of when and how and where he would show leniency.

Although he often showed leniency toward petty offenders, he never released anyone guilty of a major crime.

And now Sennacherib, who had shown leniency after two previous revolts, displayed unbounded fury in his triumph.

Those who breach the conditions will be fined, although police were showing leniency in the first hours of the lockdown.

A builder who held a gun as he ordered two liquidation staff off his premises was shown leniency yesterday by a judge.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of the few Bruce Graysons than make the mistake of not showing leniency to the many Gabriel Russos.