Sentence examples for pardons past from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Waxman's focus on pardons past was largely lost in the hours upon hours of testimony on more recent grants of clemency.

Bill Clinton always did feel at home in Los Angeles, so it is perhaps fitting that the ghost of presidential pardons past was a point of contention, if not a decisive factor, in that city's mayoral race.

Moreover, Obama has been much stingier with his pardons than past presidents including George W. Bush, just as he has released far fewer people from Guantánamo than his predecessor.

The allegations against James, which were made public by then NHLer Sheldon Kennedy in 1996, shocked the Canadian hockey community and even prompted a change in the way in which the federal government grants pardons for past offenses.

Pardon my past, because, you know, it was like all one piece.

Poetry by John Ashbery: "Pardon my past, because, you know, / it was like all one piece".

In Bayelsa some 18 boats were brought in.In exchange, the federal government has promised an "unconditional pardon" for past crimes.

The federal government has promised them an unconditional pardon for past crimes, a small stipend to live on and the promise of retraining in order to "reintegrate" into society.

Robert Downey Jr. gets holiday pardon for past drug offenses.

The fear, however, is that the political climate is so fractured, the public so polarized, the media so hungry for blood, that anyone courageous enough to tell the truth and ask to be pardoned for past sin so that they could serve their country would be dragged through the mud and humiliated.

The child kidnappings were not covered by past pardons, but prosecutions have been slow.