Sentence examples for pardon not from inspiring English sources

Their solution to that would be to offer proof: "Safire is suspect because he misspelled the name of James Madison's wife (Hello, Dolley!)." That causes me to beg pardon, not question.

Prisoners were freed by presidential pardon, not through a transparent judicial process.

The sweetener was that the international criminal court would stay off his tail – a pardon not granted to other dictators, such as Muammar Gaddafi.

An editorial in Canada's Globe and Mail details why this doesn't go far enough, focusing on the fact that people would be applying for a pardon, not expungement.

For Mr. Wu, the pardon not only cancels his detention and removal proceedings, but it can also put him on the path to citizenship.

An unconditional pardon not only fully restores an individual's civil rights forfeited upon conviction of a crime, but also restores the person's innocence, as if he/she never committed the crime in the first place.

These include Seattle, whose mayor, for Thanksgiving, just ceremonially pardoned not the traditional Turkeys, but two packages of Tofurky, "to draw attention to hunger in the community".

The higher you stand, the less pardon for not knowing what you're doing.

Both Ms Love and Mr Ruckman agree that America probably needs more pardons, not fewer and that Mr Barbour's antics have made that less likely.

The word captured the essential spirit of the Clinton pardons, not to mention the Clinton presidency: hey, maybe mistakes were made, but let's not blame anyone.

"If you're going to disagree with someone, disagree with President Clinton; he's the one who issued the pardons, not Eric Holder," Mr. Leahy said this week.