Sentence examples for offer a pardon from inspiring English sources

It would be incredibly unwise for this president to offer a pardon.

Should it uphold the verdict, the only other alternative is for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to offer a pardon.

On the same day, the Cabinet resolved to offer a pardon to any accomplice who came forward with information that led to the conviction of the actual murderer.

Part of the reason they may have made this decision is it would have been difficult for Trump to offer a pardon that would meet the needs of Michael Cohen.

At Rogers's suggestion, King George I offered a pardon to all pirates willing to surrender.

Because the woman's father was a high-ranking communist, she was offered a pardon if she made an apology.

Johnson offered a pardon to all Southern whites except Confederate leaders and wealthy planters (although most of these subsequently received individual pardons), restoring their political rights and all property except slaves.

Locally, gendarmes carried out the mass murders together with a special organisation (Teshkilat-i Mahsusa) of convicted criminals who had been offered a pardon in return for slaughtering Armenians.

Suppose, for example, that in the final days of her tenure a State Governor offers a pardon to the oldest, most feeble inmates in the state penitentiary who have already served most of a life sentence.

In 1800 he turned down Napoleon Bonaparte's offer of a pardon.

Snowden, however, conceded that Obama is unlikely to offer such a pardon before he leaves office.