Sentence examples for offer of release from inspiring English sources

He refused this, the sixth conditional offer of release in 10 years.

She turned down her first offer of release in 2011, according to the Italian press, because the very idea of working horrified her.

McCain turned down the offer of release, due to the POWs' "first in, first out" interpretation of the U.S. Code of Conduct: he would only accept the offer if every man captured before him was released as well.

He says Mandela resisted offers of release until all conditions had been removed.

Offers of release were made to him, provided he agreed to retire to the Transkei Bantustan "homeland".

Wonders shape plots that promise all kinds of riches; fairy tales typically offer hope of release from poverty, maltreatment, and subjection.

The senator gained hero status when, though sick and injured, he refused an offer of early release.

She began, "My father says …" and went on to read his refusal of an offer of conditional release that involved renouncing violence.

A framed photocopy of a telegram, dated Sept. 13, 1968, documenting the young Captain McCain's decision to refuse his captors' offer of early release.

He was tortured repeatedly, in part because he refused an offer of early release made after his captors learned that his father was the admiral in charge of military operations in the Pacific.

But for most of the time it was voluntary: he refused an offer of early release, saying that those who had been imprisoned before him should be freed first.The willingness to take punishment for his beliefs has been a hallmark of Mr McCain's political career.