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An executive at an Ohio company that makes natural gas engines argued that natural gas engines deserved the same regulatory leniencies as electric engines, which generate less pollution.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2020

The new legislation raised the threshold to $100 billion and instructed the Fed to consider leniencies for even larger banks.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2018

The apparent firmness of their control was enabling the Reds to introduce important leniencies.

From Time Magazine Archive

U.S. business has turned patron in a big way, partly out of tax leniencies, partly out of a new sense of community responsibility.

From Time Magazine Archive

The town, as Cantapresto had long since advised him, had its secret leniencies, its posterns opening on clandestine pleasure; but there was that in Odo which early turned him from such cheap counterfeits of living.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith