Sentence examples for extending amnesty from inspiring English sources

Last year he said that extending amnesty beyond the so-called Dreamers (the children of undocumented immigrants brought here at an early age) would be "ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally". It is hard to think of a confession more damning to his position in a court of law, in a congressional court of impeachment and in the court of public opinion.

Letters of reconciliation were dispatched to Rome extending amnesty to the Senate and recognizing the laws, while also condemning the administration of Macrinus and his son.

During the Civil War and after, presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson extended amnesty to about 200,000 people.

Mr. Gingrich's advisers said that he did not misspeak at the debate and pointed out that his comments were in line with decades of positioning on the subject, including his support for the 1986 immigration overhaul signed by President Ronald Reagan that extended amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants.

The Internal Revenue Service will announce on Monday that it is extending its amnesty program intended to root out those suspected of using offshore accounts to evade taxes.

In other words, they're extending an "amnesty" to these businesses--an indirect admission of the law's unfeasibility and a direct contradiction of their "no amnesty" mantra.

The frustrated government finally extends an amnesty to the rebels all except Riel, whose amnesty is conditional on a five-year banishment from Canada.

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.

He was right, and his reasoning extends to amnesty for the more than 11 million unlawful immigrants in this country.

Another piece of legislation being considered in Washington would extend the amnesty and give more illegal immigrants legal residency.

The tax agency on Monday extended an amnesty program intended to identify those suspected of tax evasion through secret offshore accounts.