This is well enough, but nevertheless I cannot, I confess, incline towards the Shakers; view them with much favour, or extend towards them any very
lenient construction.
Her mind made up on these several points, and her resolution formed, of always judging and acting in future with the greatest good sense, she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever; and the
lenient hand of time did much for her by insensible gradations in the course of another day.
Masked judges and masked executioners, with unlimited power, and no appeal from their judgements, in that hard, cruel age, were not likely to be
lenient with men they suspected yet could not convict.
"If it is necessary to handle you again I shall not be so
lenient."
I must ask his pardon to-day, and entreat him to be
lenient in his accusation, if the revelation must be made.
Because, Eddy,' clasping her hand on his arm, 'we have so much reason to be very
lenient to each other!'
'having a
lenient consideration,' he stipulated, 'for my being no workman, Doyce.'
But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very
lenient to my master: I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out.
Those whose extensive researches have given them the means of judging my backslidings with more severity, will probably be
lenient in proportion to their knowledge of the difficulty of my task.
If he had got out, the whole business would come to light, and I should have been court-martialled and shot as likely as not; for people were not very
lenient at a time like that."
Summary: Amroha (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr 5 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lambasted opposition parties for being solicitous to Pakistan and terrorists, saying Congress, Samajwadi Party and BSP's "
lenient attitude" has strengthened the terrorist groups operating from Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD: Non-state actors should be eliminated by implementing National Action Plan (NAP) in letter and spirit, speakers of a conference titled '
Lenient Pakistan' Wednesday said.
ISLAMABAD -- Non-state actors should be eliminated by implementing National Action Plan (NAP) in letter and spirit, speakers of a conference titled '
Lenient Pakistan' Wednesday said.
Bancrofts' sentence was
lenient, to say the least, and it appears to me that Australian Marcus North, now Director of Cricket at Durham, needs also to explain the decision.
Arfon Jones has written to the UK's most senior lawyer, the attorney general, raising his concerns about "unduly
lenient" punishments for sex offenders.
