1.   Paul who were supposedly too earthly in their pastoral concerns and too lenient in enforcing doctrine and liturgical standards.

2.   School examiners say that marking has become more lenient in recent years.

3.   Without question, many judges and sheriffs are far too lenient in sentencing people found guilty of violent crimes.

4.   But the ballot commission has historically been lenient in interpreting residency, and the Democrats could end up looking petty.

5.   Calvi made his accusations against Pirro soon after his state conviction in the hope that the judge would be lenient in sentencing.

6.   Conrad has sat with the Morena family in court while publicly criticizing Zappala as too lenient in at least one other case.

7.   Pope John Paul II and other Vatican officials have complained that the US Catholic Church is too lenient in granting them.

8.   Referee Kerry Fraser was lenient in giving Samuelsson only a double minor for roughing.

9.   Souter said the veterans council had not forfeited its constitutional protection, just because it had been lenient in admitting contingents in the past.