Sentence examples for number of pardons from inspiring English sources

A number of pardons have been granted.

There is no limit on the number of pardons the governor is prepared to grant, officials in his office said.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 3.36pm BST15:36 David Simpson, the DUP MP, says that his constituents were outraged by the revelations about the number of pardons given out in Northern Ireland.

"People in Arkansas felt that Huckabee didn't fully explain in detail the reasons for the large number of pardons," said Andrew J. Dowdle, assistant professor of political science at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

The Associated Press calculated that Mr. Bush set a 50-year low in Texas in the number of pardons he granted, 19, including six convicts who had proved they were not guilty.

Like Clinton, he could make a large number of pardons.

The Department of Justice was also bypassed in a number of pardon applications for defendants from this district".

As if to refute the notion that the president is a closet liberal, the 22 pardons he granted during his first four years in office (including one commutation) gives President Obama the least generous number of presidential pardons in the country's 235-year history.

He has written several challenging articles including a report on Mubarak's extensive wealth and another on the high number of jihadis pardoned by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces prior to the Brotherhood's election.

Since his election in 2007, Mr. Ramos-Horta has dramatically increased the number of commutations and pardons handed out, prompting criticism that his actions are weakening accountability in the justice system.

Christine Radogno, a Republican state senator, said that Mr. Obama took credit for work accomplished by Gov. George Ryan, a Republican who imposed the moratorium, pardoned a number of death-row inmates, and established a commission to study capital punishment.