Sentence examples for pardoning to from inspiring English sources

Earlier in the presentation, Obama compared the pardoning to an election, with "a bunch of turkeys trying to win their way into the White House".

He has worked for The Hill newspaper, where he reported on congressional hearings and worked with editors on stories ranging from the White House turkey pardoning to the implications of arming public school teachers.

His would only backdate pardons to 1919.

It took a governor's pardon to free him.

President Gerald Ford issued a pardon to Nixon a month later.

A13 Ex-Congressman Pardoned President Clinton granted pardons to 59 people, including former Representative Dan Rostenkowski.

Mr. Perry granted the posthumous pardon to Tim Cole after receiving a recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.

"Humbly asking pardon to mention it," he says, smiling and bowing.

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

Other Mississippi governors have issued full pardons to people convicted of murder — Kirk Fordice, for example, issued two such pardons before he left office in 2000 after two terms — but none have issued so many pardons to so many criminals.

In the mid-1980's, the chairman of Gov. Edwin W. Edwards's pardon board, Howard Marsellus, began selling pardons to inmates.