Sentence examples for pardons not from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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".

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

Presidential pardon"A presidential pardon does not remove the conviction, like an amnesty does.

The motives behind the pardons are not at issue.

Since pardons do not expunge convictions, it was a symbolic gesture.

Throughout much of his presidency, pardons did not seem high among Mr. Clinton's priorities.