Sentence examples for act of amnesty from inspiring English sources

During the Restoration, despite a broad act of amnesty, those who had abetted and defended the killing of Charles I were hanged, drawn, and quartered.

To ease tensions, Grant signed the Amnesty Act of 1872 on May 23 , 1872that gave amnesty to former Confederates.

President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act of 1872, a Liberal Republican platform, that gave amnesty to former Confederates.

Only in the 1980s did Chavez change his tune, backing the Immigration Reform Act of 1986, which gave an amnesty to three million.

With the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Reagan had granted amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants, including many seasonal agricultural workers like her parents.

Nearly two years into Fidel's imprisonment, in an ill-advised act of magnanimity, Batista signed an amnesty that freed Fidel from prison.

The issue could become moot if Congress passes the Dream Act of 2003, a bill granting amnesty and in-state tuition to illegal aliens under 21 who have lived in the United States at least five years.

According to Ms Sherman-Niklaus of Amnesty, reached by telephone, Jammeh may have acted "because his back was against the wall.

Consider the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which legalized through amnesty about three million people, in turn allowing those people to petition for their family members to come to the United States.

Over the past 24 hours, for example, the "Patriot Act" and "Amnesty" have claimed the larger shares of search interest on Google (at 1% apiece), while Twitter users have been talking the most about "Energy and the Environment".

Due to the nature of amnesty programs and their potential restrictions taxpayers who are aware of existing or potential tax liabilities need to act quickly to determine whether they would qualify under an existing or upcoming amnesty program.