(a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
(a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
(a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.
(a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(2) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(3) Insertion of the material after careful tailoring to the individual patient's own mandibular size and configuration requires a generous posterior lower buccal sulcus incision.
(4) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(5) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
(6) People who knew him told Guardian Australia he was generous to the core, even if in desperate need for help himself.
(7) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
(8) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(9) Both he and Burns were generous with their time when talking to me, and offered thoughtful contributions to that article.
(10) I will confine myself to correcting Kaiman's slanders against the most open and generous immigration system in the developed world.
(11) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(12) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
(13) There were mainly nosocomial infections resulting from too generously administered antibiotics.
(14) Offering our ADF 2% with no cuts to conditions isn’t exactly generous, but it is a mile ahead of the attack on rights and real wages on offer from this government to public sector workers,” she said.
(15) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
(16) With Level I as a generous clinical indicator, 110 (25%) of 525 patients were transfused in excess of blood needs; by Level II (intermediate) and Level III (strict) criteria, 221 (42%) and 314 (60%) of 525 patients, respectively, were transfused in excess of blood needs.
(17) When the frozen or paraffin section diagnosis of a generous excisional biopsy was noninvasive breast carcinoma, there was a substantial risk that foci of the same type of noninvasive carcinoma were also present in other quadrants.
(18) In the current experiments we investigated whether the previously recognized sparseness of A beta on the surface of tubular epithelial cells might be accounted for by a protein coding difference deduced from the primary structure of its transcript compared with sequence from lymphoid cells that normally express A beta in generous amounts.
(19) Foster, as minister for the environment three years ago, hatched a scheme to promote renewable fuels through excessively generous subsidies.
(20) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
Lenient
Definition:
(a.) Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
(a.) Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
(n.) A lenitive; an emollient.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was less than predicted by many observers – each of the 12 offences had a maximum term of between two and 10 years – and immediately the attorney general's office received calls from the public asking it to look at whether it was too lenient.
(2) From Brussels our Europe editor, Ian Traynor , provides this analysis of this morning's events: The eurozone permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, has been given a green light to come into force two months later than planned following the supreme court decision in Karlsruhe which arrived with much more lenient caveats than had been predicted.
(3) Cable's strongly worded intervention came after parliament's spending watchdog, the public accounts committee, said HMRC was "way too lenient" on companies that use clever accounting tricks to pay very little or no tax.
(4) Even in the few cases where prosecution does take place, sentences tend to be lenient.
(5) Other estimates suggest little more than £150m Even so, as Johnson says, this is all lenient compared with equivalent rates in New York, where they also pay local income tax.
(6) All patients were medication free, and REM latency was explicitly defined using both strict and lenient criteria.
(7) That ruling could make it more likely that other lenders will start taking a more lenient view when it comes to older mortgage borrowers.
(8) One partial explanation for the sudden drop in admissions may be that Swedish courts have given more lenient sentences for drug offences following a ruling of the country's supreme court in 2011.
(9) I would maintain that marking has become more lenient.
(10) Will the big names be treated more leniently than the smaller ones?
(11) To date, Czechoslovakia has had a fairly lenient attitude toward the sterilization of women; only recently has it been applied to men as well.
(12) Furthermore, intrinsically motivated subjects chose higher performance standards than had been demonstrated to them in the lenient-demand condition, and also arranged leaner schedules of self reinforcement over all demand conditions than had been demonstrated to them, compared to extrinsically motivated subjects.
(13) "It appears to me the sentence was unduly lenient and the overall criminality was not reflected," he told the court.
(14) No prison for Colorado college student who ‘raped a helpless young woman' Read more Despite the guilty verdict by a jury, Judge Patrick Butler decided not to send Wilkerson to prison this week with a ruling that closely resembles the lenient sentencing of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner .
(15) Tom Gosling, reward partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: "There is a wider question of differences in regulatory approach at the global level creating an uneven playing field, and a risk of geographic arbitrage in favour of jurisdictions that are perceived to be more lenient."
(16) He cited Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts, which had an even more lenient policy, allowing criminals out on parole to vote.
(17) Anthony Bosch – who choked back tears in court and said the clinic was a legitimate business gone awry – sought a more lenient term because of his cooperation in the investigation, but US District Judge Darrin Gayles refused.
(18) External conditions were three demand conditions (stringent, variable, and lenient).
(19) Results include the findings that (a) performance is an inverted-U shaped function of exactingness, (b) performance is better under incentives when environments are lenient but not when they are exacting, (c) the interaction between exactingness and incentives does not obtain when an incentives function fails to discriminate sharply between good and bad performance, and (d) when the negative effects of exactingness on performance are eliminated, performance increases with exactingness.
(20) "It was a very lenient sentence," said Shahryar Khan, a retired diplomat and a former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, speaking by telephone from Lahore.