Sentence examples for immunity from punishment from inspiring English sources

I relished the attention and the relative immunity from punishment that my new status gave me, and I relished, above all, the sudden right to privacy.

To say that, notwithstanding his immunity from punishment, he would incur personal odium and disgrace from answering these questions, seems too much like an abuse of language to be worthy of serious consideration.

From late 1985, when Mr. Gotti engineered the assassination of his predecessor, Paul Castellano, to 1992, when he was sent to a federal prison for life, Mr. Gotti's swagger and seeming immunity from punishment earned him mythic gangster status.

In many parts of the world, from South America to South Africa to Eastern Europe, despots have been eased bloodlessly out of power only after being promised immunity from punishment.

NEW YORK — The Herald's correspondent at Mexico City cables as follows: — It is authoritatively reported that Emiliano Zapata, the most cruel and daring of the Mexican bandits, offers to surrender when a pledge of immunity from punishment is given him.

No doubt judges naturally would be slower to punish when the contempt carried with it a personal dishonoring charge, but a man cannot expect to secure immunity from punishment by the proper tribunal, by adding to illegal conduct a personal attack.

With few exceptions, they are gifted not merely with leniency, but full-scale immunity from criminal punishment.

By pressing for immunity from corporal punishment (even during military service), Drusus was promising the Latins more protection from abuses by Roman magistrates than even Roman citizens enjoyed.

Nevertheless, New York has made it a crime to engage in almost any kind of electronic eavesdropping, N.Y.Pen.Law § 738, and the only way eavesdropping, even the kind this Court has held constitutional, can be accomplished with immunity from criminal punishment is pursuant to § 813-a of the Code of Criminal Procedure, N.Y.Pen.Law § 739.

They would certainly have no claim to an immunity from the punishment, which, according to the rule of warfare practiced by the savages, might justly be inflicted on the savages themselves.

Like the earlier laws of asulia, a provision of sanctuary "granted a wrongdoer who fled to a church protection from forcible removal as well as immunity from corporal or capital punishment". Church councils in the mid-fourth century CE debated and then established the right of churches and bishops to protect criminals.