Sentence examples for request to pardon from inspiring English sources

But they also asserted the importance of fully implementing the prohibitionist UN conventions on drugs.Peru's president, Ollanta Humala, rejected a request to pardon Alberto Fujimori, the country's former ruler who is serving a 25-year sentence for abuse of power.

"The UK, as the country's largest single investor, is in a unique position to request President Sisi to pardon us".

Iran had made frequent requests to the Saudis to pardon Nimr.

When Zeenat directly requests the Singh family to pardon Amir's mistake, their anger drives her away.

The pardon request to Obama, first reported by the New York Times, was confirmed by White House and Justice Department officials who weren't authorized to discuss the matter by name.

And it gave him the foresight to send copies of his pardon request to people like Cheryl Mills, a former White House lawyer who happened to be in the Oval Office the night of Jan . 19 as the president consulted his aides one last time about Mr. Rich.

Motley submitted a pardon request to Afghan president Hamid Karzai, and after turning up the heat by doing dozens of interviews with the international media, succeeded in winning a pardon.

(AP) RUSSIA: BERIA PLEA TURNED DOWN -- The Supreme Court rejected a request by relatives to posthumously pardon Lavrenty Beria, the reviled chief of the N.K.V.D. who sent millions of people to their deaths under Stalin's dictatorship in the 1930's and 40's.

One of the reasons this may finally happen is that Ronald Rodgers, the Department of Justice's pardon attorney who has been opposed to this kind of mercy-showing is expected to resign, and Obamercy-showing isof prosexpectedtoat he wants to see paresignequests with his own eyes.

Prior to that in August 2009, a petition was started to request a pardon.

The State Department had earlier said that Mr. King intended to request a pardon and amnesty for the missionary, Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American from Washington State.