Sentence examples for pardon to him from inspiring English sources

Before Mr. George was sentenced, the first President George Bush granted a full and unconditional pardon to him and five other Iran-contra defendants.

It took a governor's pardon to free him.

He has asked Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, for a pardon to spare him from execution.

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, issued a royal pardon to free him.

He has indicated that Giorgio Napolitano, the Italian president, should pardon him without him having to ask – an idea that drew a terse response from the former communist head of state.

"We strongly encourage the North Korean government to pardon him and grant him special amnesty and immediate release".

According to the letter writer John Chamberlain, Northumberland refused a pardon offered to him in 1617, preferring to remain with Harriot, Hues and Warner.

After Governor Edward L. Jackson, whom Stephenson helped elect, refused to pardon him, Stephenson began to name many of his co-conspirators.

Tennant's text was direct: "Could you pass on to the prime minister that in Alan Turing's centenary year it would be an amazing inspirational thing to do to pardon him?" "I didn't think it was going to happen," Tennant adds, especially as Gordon Brown had in 2009 issued a government apology but rejected calls for a pardon.

Choosing to pardon him is a gift to the white nationalists.

Auden's recognition of the problem that he was sometimes seduced by irresponsible rhetoric such as 'History to the defeated/ May say Alas but cannot help or pardon' led him to revise and edit out these elements from the canon.