(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.
Tolerant
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.
Example Sentences:
(1) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(2) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(3) This treatment is usually well tolerated but not devoid of systemic effects.
(4) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(5) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(6) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
(7) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(8) There were no biochemical or haematological abnormalities caused by prazosin but on continued therapy 16 patients developed tolerance to its effect.
(9) Characerization of further parameters such as relative susceptibility to tolerance induction and relative degree of specificity was not possible with the use of KLH as the antigen.
(10) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(11) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
(12) This suggests that both blood transfusion and allograft are required for IL2 suppression and that this suppression may be related to the heart tolerance.
(13) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
(14) Changes in pain tolerance after administration of differently labelled placebos were studied by measuring the reaction time after a cold stimulus.
(15) TK1 showed the most restricted substrate specificity but tolerated 3'-modifications of the sugar ring and some 5-substitutions of the pyrimidine ring.
(16) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
(17) After large bowel removal, there was impaired glucose tolerance and attenuated plasma insulin secretion.
(18) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
(19) These agents have been well-tolerated and generally produce a high incidence of sustained improvements in neutrophil counts and marrow morphology, although hemoglobin and platelet counts have generally not been altered.
(20) The above treatment is tolerated well and no serious side effects have been observed.