Sentence examples for offer of freedom from inspiring English sources

She refused the military junta's offer of freedom in return for emigrating and was put under house arrest in 1989.

"The relations between master and slave in Virginia were so pleasant," Fiske wrote, that Britain's "offer of freedom fell upon dull uninterested ears".

In captivity in Chad, disowned by Gaddafi, an angry Heftar accepted an US offer of freedom in return for defecting and joining an exile brigade, the Libyan National Army.

Even after their romance, her subsequent marriage to a white man and the end of the Civil War, the former slave refused her offer of freedom and instead "remained to share the family misfortune" as he single-handedly rebuilt her devastated plantation.

Much maligned as General Dunmore, the British governor of Virginia, may have been, it was the mounting desperation of his military predicament rather than any humanitarianism that prompted an offer of freedom to black recruits and when disaster was unavoidable, the British had no qualms about the despicable strategy of sending out smallpox-ridden black people to infect their enemy's troops.

'I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free' THE RESPONSE TO A CONDITIONAL OFFER OF FREEDOM FROM PRESIDENT PW BOTHA, READ OUT BY HIS DAUGHTER ZINZI AT A MASS MEETING AT JABULANI STADIUM, SOWETO, 10 FEBRUARY 1985 On Friday, my mother and our attorney saw my father [i.e., Mandela] at Pollsmoor Prison to obtain his answer to Botha's offer of conditional release.

Offers of freedom in exchange for his theft of British government documents.

The South African government periodically made conditional offers of freedom to Mandela, most notably in 1976, on the condition that he recognize the newly independent and highly controversial status of the Transkei Bantustan and agree to reside there.

Captured at the Dominican Republic national day party Feb. 27, the pair had chosen to stay on, despite earlier offers of freedom by the guerrillas, in order to sell photographs and articles from inside the embassy.

Bajazet, the Turkish sultan, has been defeated and taken prisoner (but with the run of the castle) by Tamerlano, the Tartar emperor, and is so bent on defying his captor that he rejects Tamerlano's offers of freedom as being unworthy of him.

In particular, flexible transponders and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) are key elements since they can offer degrees of freedom to self adapt accordingly.