lenient treatment

基本解释

Put down your arms, and we will apply for lenient treatment for you.
放下你们手中的枪杆子，我们会申请对你们宽大处理的。
If some bonds offer stronger creditor protection against default, should they receive more lenient treatment?
如果有些公债能够针对违约为债权人提供更坚实的保护，他们是否应该受到比较仁慈的对待？
Firms that swiftly uncover and put a stop to wrongdoing might also get more lenient treatment from regulators if, say, their employees are found to have broken antitrust rules.
如果公司的员工被发现违反了反托拉斯法，该公司迅速揭露并且终止错误举动，他们可能会得到监管机构的宽大的处理。

Lately, detainees who have been rewarded for good behavior with more lenient treatment have also taken advantage of their conditions to mount savage attacks on their guards.
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The authorities have set a deadline of midnight on Monday local time for rioters to hand themselves over (if they do so by then apparently they can expect more lenient treatment).
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The federal investigation appears to fit a classic pattern in which lower-level conspirators are investigated, confronted with their own wrongdoing and convinced to cooperate with the feds in exchange for more lenient treatment.
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