Sentence examples for pardon to avoid from inspiring English sources

-- CBS News reports Manafort is counting on a presidential pardon to avoid prison.

Mr. Hutomo, who is known as Tommy Suharto, admitted his guilt on Tuesday and pleaded for a presidential pardon to avoid jail.

"The timing of the presidential pardons was not helpful at all - it provided a cheap excuse to avoid elections," he says.

Mr. Shalom and 10 other senior officials of Shin Beth received hastily arranged presidential pardons, in order to avoid the possibility of conviction and imprisonment for the beating deaths of the two hijackers.

His successor, President Gerald Ford, quickly pardoned Nixon, who had resigned, to avoid that result.

Pardon me as I try to avoid that anvil.

Pakistan's cooperation on those matters is so great, American officials say, that they have had no choice but to avoid criticizing Pakistan for pardoning Dr. Khan.

The biggest question she has managed to avoid is whether she will pardon her father.

Then it did something Bush had vowed to avoid, taking up a pardon application from a felon whose case had not been reviewed by the pardon attorney.

Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, both wealthy international traders who fled to Switzerland to avoid facing criminal charges, were pardoned by Mr. Clinton just hours before he left office on Jan . 20

Both fled to Switzerland to avoid prosecution and were then pardoned by President Clinton in 2001.