But the ruling is a successful countermove by challengers to match the relative leniency of San Diego's rules for its defense teams.

De la Gardie was treated with relative leniency, but he "received permission to retire to his estates for the rest of his life".

But the government appears to have treated Friday's protests with relative leniency.

The reign of James I was, in fact, a time of relative leniency for Catholics, few being subject to prosecution.

Then, like today, his father's standing in the community brought relative leniency.

The sentences could have been much longer, and diplomats attributed the relative leniency to Chinese concern about the reaction here and abroad to harsher sentences.

Britain's lure, it seems, lies in the relative leniency of its immigration policy.

If the alternative were a court martial, it seemed to many officers far better to dispose of the matter with relative leniency, informality and speed by ignoring the regulations.

The defense lawyers attributed the relative leniency to Western criticism that the Government was rushing to send many fundamentalists to the gallows.

In addition, Perkins noted that the Royal Navy treated American commerce with "relative leniency" during the wars, and many impressed seamen were returned to America.