Word: leniently
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...country. Many Iraqis will admit that their own security forces treat prisoners at least as badly, but they point out that their government doesn't lecture the world about human rights. The punishment meted out to Americans found guilty of atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Iraqis complain, was too lenient...
...many Iraqis, the punishment meted out to those found guilty of atrocities in the prison was too lenient; and Sgt. Cardona's return only confirmed suspicions that the U.S. military never took the case seriously. A top Iraqi military commander, trained and appointed to his high position by the U.S., once told me that the Americans should have made an example of all those found guilty by "cutting of their heads and displaying them at the entrance of the Green Zone." This, from a man who proudly labeled himself as a "friend of America...
...Africa to realizing your dream of uniting as a "rainbow people of God"? Tutu: Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years...
...course, most of the time the College is admirably lenient in response to drugs violations. But leniency “most of the time” is not good enough for those few students who, in the words of Ryan M. Travia, director of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, happen to be caught “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Flexibility is good, but this ad hoc decision making fails to guarantee students even vaguely similar treatment for similar crimes...
...jail for his role in inflating profit figures, hiding billions of dollars in debt and enriching himself before the energy giant's 2001 collapse; in Houston. Fastow was set to serve up to 10 years after he had pleaded guilty in 2004, but Judge Kenneth Hoyt attributed the lenient sentence to his family's suffering and his cooperation in the prosecution of ex-CEO Kenneth...