Sentence examples for pardons one from inspiring English sources

Among the people arrested in 1999 but not pardoned yesterday were seven whose cases had been dismissed before trial, two who were on probation at the time of their arrests and so not eligible for pardons, one whose conviction is not final and one who has died.

Few things are more globally respected than the Olympic Games, and to pardon one of the biggest frauds perpetuated on the Olympic movement would be nothing less than thumbing our collective noses at the world".

It teaches us to pardon one another.

We slaughter so many millions, and then pardon one as a kind of national joke.

President Clinton believed that "people who paid whatever price was supposed to be paid ought to be considered for a pardon," one former White House official said.

"It sickened me," Mr. Kerik said yesterday of the pardon, one of 140 granted Saturday, the final day of Mr. Clinton's tenure.

"There is huge frustration that the deal breaker now appears to be a fear that a general pardon might see what are being described as some paedophiles pardoned," one source familiar with the Whitehall negotiations told the Guardian.

But she wrote reassuringly to Strachey, who had sent her the final section on The End of General Gordon: "It's amazing how from all these complications, you contrive to reel off such a straight and dashing story, and how you weave in every scrap - my God, what scraps - of interest to be had, like (you must pardon one metaphor) a snake insinuating himself through innumerable golden rings..

But Bush waited until after a verdict to pardon one man.

Obama quickly responded that Clinton's husband pardoned one member of Weather Underground and commuted the sentence of another.

This was a broadcast that sanctimoniously derided the current administration before glorifying and, in effect, pardoning one of its principal villains.