Sentence examples for clemency between from inspiring English sources
It was once used freely; presidents issued more than 10,000 grants of clemency between 1885 and 1930 alone.
Appealing to the related Stoic virtue of philanthrôpia or love of humankind, Seneca refashioned the relationship between clemency and justice, claiming that being clement goes beyond the letter of the law but is paradoxically the highest justice (iustissimum, 2.7.3, following Braund 2009, 66 70).
Those with clemency powers have to steer between playing God and incurring public wrath.
In "The Northern Clemency" (2008), set in Sheffield between 1974 and 1996, strikes are broken and utilities privatized; industries collapse.
"The Northern Clemency" by Philip Hensher tells of the ties between two families who live in Sheffield in the 1970s and '80s.
"The Northern Clemency," by Philip Hensher, tells of the ties between two families who live in Sheffield in the 1970s and 1980s.
Families of someone unlawfully killed can choose between demanding the death penalty or granting clemency in return for a payment of diyya, or blood money, by the perpetrator.
In the intersection between the one and the many, there was no clemency in numbers.
In opening a review of the former territorial governor's deal to grant clemency to Billy the Kid, Mr. Richardson has revived the classic Old West showdown between the Kid and the sheriff who arrested him — and later shot him — nearly 130 years ago.
Will there be credit clemency?
The pope called for clemency.
