Sentence examples for offering immunity from inspiring English sources

The inquiry to which Hague has now committed himself will need to find a way of offering immunity to anyone who comes forward to give evidence.

Mr Brown is offering immunity to City whistleblowers, and he's seeking to adopt a broader array of regulations and increased taxes for financial firms.

Aides to Mr. Frist said the measure was more restrictive than the existing law offering immunity to companies that produced smallpox vaccine; in the case of smallpox, the vaccine makers could not be sued for any reason.

That measure, which also resolved the long controversy over N.S.A.'s program of wiretapping without warrants by offering immunity to telecommunications companies, tacitly acknowledged that some amount of Americans' e-mail would inevitably be captured by the N.S.A.

Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has long called for a "truth commission" to look into interrogation and other matters, offering immunity from prosecution in return for candid testimony.

In 1964 the government proposed a deal with Blunt, offering immunity from prosecution and confidentiality in return for his confession, but his past became public knowledge in 1979 when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed published reports that Blunt had indeed been a Soviet agent.

The British foreign secretary, William Hague, has said that Britain is not offering Koussa immunity from prosecution, and called for other regime figures to abandon Gaddafi.

Good bone structure confers a kind of immortality, as well as offering some immunity to the depredations of time, especially for women.

People who work with him say that he has led talks to consider offering criminal immunity or limited scrutiny of the defense budget as trade-offs to ease the ruling generals out of power.

Noting a 17-day gap between the day Mr. Marino first approached the police and the day he was brought before prosecutors in Milan, Mr. Ginzburg suggests that the police may have put pressure on Mr. Marino to make a false confession, perhaps offering him immunity for all his crimes.

Finally, the Administration has yet to explain why offering retroactive immunity to telephone giants who may have participated in an unlawful program is vital to our national security.