Sentence examples for amnesty without from inspiring English sources

For all of its disappointment it is a way to achieve a kind of amnesty without impunity.

"The amnesty demand had everything riding on it; we could not have given on amnesty without betraying not only Columbia but the whole of higher education.

But by doing neither, and basically ducking the issue until this late-in-the-game concession, he enabled the White House to reap all of the benefits of its backdoor amnesty without paying any political price at all.

The charges, brought by Alain Peyrefitte, Mr. Giscard d'Estaing's chief law officer, were dropped the following year, when a Paris court granted the two journalists amnesty without addressing the merits of the case.

In theory, this left the prisoners liable for crimes that didn't relate to property, but, as all present believed, this could be taken as a merely linguistic distinction — "something close to amnesty without men like Oswald having to admit that it was amnesty," as Wicker writes.

Then as today, immigration hawks drove a hard bargain: no amnesty without beefed-up enforcement — and they too had the muscle to get most of what they wanted.

After all, the alternative of formal proceedings in a court of law often cannot deal with personal histories and the larger social and political context which surrounds the crimes.The trend, however, is to grant amnesties without creating a broader system of redress, and then to honour them in the transitional period only.

Perhaps more significant was the amnesty, offered without publicity by President Boris Trajkovski to the rebel leader, Ali Ahmeti, who signed his acceptance today, the government official said.

In 2009 the state of New Jersey launched an amnesty program without any such Big Brother threats.

Wouter Basson, known as "Dr Death" for his role in devising gruesome ways of killing people, is currently up for amnesty.Without the lure of amnesty, however, few would have confessed let alone relinquished power and much of the truth would have remained buried.

Mr. Bush says without amnesty, the government won't get cooperation in the future.