Sentence examples for as clemency from inspiring English sources

As Clemency has no money of her own, it is down to her unknown family to meet Mrs Potchard's expenses – if they can be found.

None of the virtues has so many crimes to answer for as clemency.

Other legal petitions surrounded Arkansas's use of midazolam, the controversial sedative that has been blamed for botched executions in states including Arizona and Oklahoma, and others questioned the state's hasty execution schedule, which shortened the defendants' time for measures such as clemency reviews.

"As noted previously, we are hoping to get as many clemency recommendations as possible over the next few months," Lee wrote.

A12 NATIONAL A10-16 Fonus on Rich's Pardon Puts Governors in Spotlight As many as 2,000 clemency orders are issued each year by state governors, but they have seldom received the degree of attention being paid to former President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardons.

Khodorkovsky said in Berlin that he had asked for clemency as long ago as November 12th, so the story apparently began earlier than it first seemed, and probably included terms and conditions that we have hardly begun to learn about.

People with political connections seemed to fare particularly well: two former congressmen won clemency, as did a former Louisiana governor.

According to the Catholic Bishops Association of the Philippines, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has asked Jokowi for clemency, as has the boxer Manny Pacquiao.

The book's title, she tells me, was inspired by John Cheever's story "The Swimmer", in which a middle-aged man in Connecticut attempts to "swim home" in a pool-crawl, seeing water as a "clemency, a beneficence", before it turns against him.

Those traits of which we approve naturally (without any social contrivance), such as beneficence, clemency, and moderation, also tend to the good of individuals or all of society.

Many of those new applications came from what's known as the Clemency Project 2014, announced when the head of the Office of the Pardon Attorney resigned.