Sentence examples for clemency a from inspiring English sources

"That he lived in a world so generously supplied with water seemed like a clemency, a beneficence," Cheever wrote.

On Clemency, a paean to Nero's non-violent nature, appeared mere months after the emperor had had his stepbrother murdered.

Last August, the board voted 10too 6 against clemency, a slim margin in a state where the pardon board's votes are often unanimously in favor of execution.

Mr. McVeigh then has 30 days to ask the president for clemency, a process that will allow prosecutors and victims' families to comment.

To give none of those offenders who applied for clemency a chance to be united with their families is a crying shame.

She proposes that he practice clemency, a virtue that Corneille had promoted in his memorable tragedy Cinna; ou, la clémence d'Auguste (first performed 1641, published 1643; Cinna; or, The Clemency of Augustus).

Earlier that year she asked a court to grant clemency to a woman who had played a part in the bomb attack that killed Rajiv.

The incongruity of a demand for clemency from a group that has killed thousands of civilians was not lost on some Pakistanis.

Sometimes clemency is a way of healing a national divide or bringing closure to a national controversy.

Their leaders face trial if they ever return, but the rank and file are being offered clemency and a chance to start a new life.

In 1998, he appeared at a clemency hearing for a death-row inmate and pointed at then-Governor Jim Hunt: "You're a murderer.