Sentence examples for pardoning of from inspiring English sources

What do you make of the annual pardoning of the turkey?

The office of President Giorgio Napolitano said he hoped that the pardoning of the American, Col.

A logical concomitant of the fall-guy plan would be the pardoning of North and Poindexter.

The plot hinges on one minor Presidential duty: the annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey.

Webb declared Jimmy Carter's blanket pardoning of draft resisters a rank betrayal and an abuse of Presidential power.

President John F. Kennedy first observed the pardoning of the thanksgiving turkey in 1963, but the act did not become official until George H.W. Bush in 1989.

Obama's pardoning of one randomly selected bird at Thanksgiving not only carries with it an implicit validation of the slaughtering of millions of other turkeys.

And it is a big deal, even bigger than the annual pardoning of a Thanksgiving turkey or the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn.

Equally as controversial was his pardoning of six Reagan administration officials charged with illegal actions associated with the Iran-Contra Affair.

Mr. Holder is likely to face questions about his role, while deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, in the pardoning of the fugitive financier Marc Rich.

Qadri's victim was the governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, who had called for the pardoning of a Christian woman jailed under harsh blasphemy laws.