Sentence examples for one pardon from inspiring English sources

The report shows that one pardon has been given for every four executions of Saudi nationals compared to just one for every 30 executions of foreign workers.

He issued one pardon, erasing a robbery conviction, since called into question, of a Brooklyn man who had been out of prison for 10 years but was threatened with deportation to his native Jamaica because of the case.

(At the time of the press conference, I believe the Governor had granted just one pardon that year).

During Eliot Spitzer's 13 months in office, he gave one pardon.

"Maggi and I wanted to begin by thanking you and Marsha for a lovely and special lunch at the Mansion last Tuesday," began a letter to the governor by a family friend of Doug Hindman, one pardon applicant.

Gov. Hugh L. Carey granted 155 pardons and commutations during his two terms, from 1975 through 1982; his successor, Mario M. Cuomo, who served 12 years, from 1983 through 1994, commuted the sentences of 37 people; in the next 12 years, George E. Pataki commuted the sentences of 32 individuals and granted one pardon, to a dead man, the comedian Lenny Bruce.

At the Virginia farm, one pardoned turkey died a day after it arrived, said Judy Pedersen, a public information officer who works for the Fairfax County Park Authority.

No one pardoned him for that, but he was back in baseball three years later.

His moves often evoked some ironic but enthusiastic descendant of disco, most flagrantly on "Pardon My Freedom," one of several songs in the set from "Louden Up Now," the band's previous album.

In seven years, Obama has now issued a hundred and eighty-four commutations, more than his last six predecessors combined, but only sixty-one pardons, which is far less than most recent Presidents.

The majority of domesticated turkeys sold commercially are broad-breasted whites ― those are the ones pardoned by the president every year ― but there a handful of other breeds (some heritage) that also make it on the table.