Sentence examples for offering pardons from inspiring English sources
The foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, speaking at a televised news conference in Damascus, reiterated Syria's contention that it had complied with the terms of a proposed Arab League peace plan by withdrawing its armed troops from urban areas, releasing political prisoners and offering pardons to militants.
These measures were followed up by one prohibiting speech critical of the government, and offering pardons to protestors willing to take an oath of allegiance.
On CBC's Power and Politics Tuesday afternoon, government sources told Catherine Cullen the liberals "intend to proceed with offering pardons to Canadians who have a simple possession conviction when it comes to cannabis".
And yet, instead of addressing that racist legacy in any meaningful way, such as offering pardons to people who've been unfairly criminalized under prohibition, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just signed a US declaration to renew the "war on drugs" crafted by President Donald Trump's administration.
The pardon plan is different from offering amnesty or record expungement, and will only apply to possession charges of 30 grams or less, according to CTV News.
The first Notes by the Editor appeared in 1901, offering Sydney Pardon a platform to thunder against dubious bowling actions and – horrors!
A1 Pardon Sought for War 'Crime' Nearly six decades after Aimée Stauffer-Stitelmann was briefly jailed for rescuing Jewish children from the Nazis, she became the first Swiss citizen to seek to clear her name under a new law offering to pardon those penalized for violating Switzerland's strict neutrality during World War II.
When Clinton arrived off the coast of North Carolina, he issued a proclamation offering a pardon to anyone who had taken up arms against the crown with the explicit exception of Howe and fellow revolutionary Cornelius Harnett, then serving as President of the North Carolina Provincial Council, the executive body in the revolutionary state.
"If you look at the record of our current governor, in terms of offering commutations and pardons, he is very spare with them, as opposed to say, someone like Jerry Brown in California," she said.
I felt like it was the President calling offering me a pardon.
Leo sent a secret message to the Doukai, offering a full pardon if they returned, but again through the machinations of Samonas, the letter fell into the hands of Caliph al-Mustakfi, who had Andronikos confined to house arrest and forced to convert to Islam along with those who had followed him.
