(n.) The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Investigators have frequently noted a leniency bias in mock jury research, in which deliberation appears to induce greater leniency in criminal mock jurors.
(2) SC Johnson, Colgate and Henkel, which alerted the competiton watchdog, will benefit from varying degrees of leniency, with Mr Muscle maker SC Johnson receiving total immunity.
(3) The Valencia official, who is apparently known in La Liga for his leniency, was marked out after drawing regular praise from the Portuguese over his three-year spell coaching Real Madrid.
(4) The referee, Martin Atkinson, could feasibly have shown four red cards and his leniency was starting to feel absurd when Danny Welbeck lunged in two-footed on Cesc Fàbregas during the closing exchanges and it was deemed worthy only of a booking.
(5) There was similar leniency from Alberto Mallenco at the opposite end as Gordon Greer was late on Robert Lewandowski.
(6) On Tuesday Khamenei used the expression "heroic leniency", which is being interpreted as a euphemism for a softer stance on foreign policy.
(7) Before sentencing, the soldiers' private lawyers pleaded for leniency, saying some of the defendants supported aged parents, others were the sole breadwinners in their family, and some of them had served in the army for 10 years, including in foreign peacekeeping missions.
(8) Although there have been a string of precedents in which clubs lost points for selecting ineligible players, Premier League rules allow scope for leniency in situations such as Ji's which involve a lack of international clearance.
(9) UBS, as the first bank to reveal the existence of investigations into Libor , is receiving leniency for co-operating with inquiries.
(10) I tried to make small talk with him to buy some leniency, telling him I was just a reporter.
(11) There have been a number of disturbing instances recently of such leniency, but at the moment they are not offences that can be referred.
(12) But the commutations are particularly significant because they are the first issued under new guidelines announced this year designed to cut costs by reducing the nation’s bulging prison population and grant leniency to nonviolent drug offenders sentenced to double-digit terms.
(13) Analysts say her freedom provided a way for the politicised court to show leniency in a case that won attention around the world.
(14) Arsenal's manager felt Naismith and Leighton Baines should also have been cautioned for fouls on Mikel Arteta and Santi Cazorla respectively but leniency from the referee, Martin Atkinson, was the least of his worries.
(15) Agüero had gone round Trapp before being taken down and the Spanish official plainly thought the angle the ball was heading meant there should be some leniency.
(16) Kilmister adds: "We have tried to argue that this [leniency deal] is totally undeserved and unjust and an insult to the elderly people who have suffered financial exploitation at Peverel's hands."
(17) It appeared, however, that there was more leniency toward time off from work to accompany children to appointments in the military population.
(18) My respected sir, I’m asking for forgiveness and leniency from you so that my sentence can be lightened.” LBH Masyarakat (@LBHMasyarakat) Here is a personal letter from Merri Utami to President Joko Widodo, asking for forgiveness.
(19) New York prosecutors detailed the cooperation of Hector Xavier Monsegur for the first time in court papers while asking a judge to reward him with leniency at his sentencing on Tuesday.
(20) In a final overall analysis, older adults were more lenient than the young in memory failure judgments, and their differential leniency was most apparent in judgments of the serious vignettes.
Remission
Definition:
(n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
(n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
(n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
(n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
(n.) The act of sending back.
(n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Definite tumor regression, improvement of some clinical symptoms, and continuous remission over 6 mo or more were observed in six, nine, and three patients, respectively.
(2) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(3) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(4) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
(5) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
(6) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(7) Seven patients relapsed after a CY-induced remission, but 5 of them became steroid responsive.
(8) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(9) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
(10) If severe seizures were prevented by antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) there was complete remission of the syndrome and repeat injection was necessary to reinitiate seizures.
(11) About 10% of the patients treated had “complete remission”, with no detectable cancer remaining - considered a cure if the patient is still cancer-free five years after diagnosis.
(12) In conclusion, not only TBII but also T3 release-stimulating antibodies may occur in a minority of patients with long-term remission of Graves' hyperthyroidism.
(13) In total, 22 out of 29 patients (76%) obtained remission.
(14) We observed complete remissions in five patients and partial remissions in 54, for a total remission rate.
(15) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(16) A new feature is the highly effectiveness of all-trans retinoic acid treatment, a vitamin A derivative, for inducing complete remission in patients.
(17) The impact of this activation on the remission rate and duration, as well as survival in patients with NHL, warrants further investigation.
(18) Antiplatelet factors disappear upon achieving a clinical and hematological remission.
(19) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
(20) Standard criteria for staging and response evaluation, including pathologic documentation of remission status, are crucial.