Sentence examples for extend a pardon from inspiring English sources
After indicating that a pardon was forthcoming, government spokespeople have recently taken a more ambiguous position and now say that Mr. Zardari can extend a pardon to someone only if the prime minister recommends it.
The Dictum instead extended a pardon, and restored land to their previous owners, contingent on payment of certain penalties that were proportional to the level of involvement in the rebellion.
We see that humans are most likeable when they admit their vulnerability and errors, when they extend a hand and ask for pardon.
In June 1985, three months after the miners admitted defeat and ended their strike, Benn introduced the Miners' Amnesty (General Pardon) Bill into the Commons, which would have extended an amnesty to all miners imprisoned during the strike.
WASHINGTON — President Bush changed his mind on Christmas Eve, pulling back a pardon he had extended a day earlier to a Brooklyn developer at the center of a Long Island real estate fraud case and adding a bizarre twist to the episode.
Extending an olive branch.
Others say that the pardon power in the Constitution is absolute and extends to a president granting himself a pardon in advance of any criminal trial.
"A pardon can go some way to healing this damage.
Both had requested a pardon.
The prisoner was denied a pardon.
But clearly, he wanted a pardon.
