Sentence examples for seeks pardon. from inspiring English sources

A1 Suharto's Son Seeks Pardon The youngest son of the former Indonesian president, Suharto, admitted corruption and asked for clemency to avoid an 18-month prison sentence imposed by the Supreme Court.

Overpaid Agents in Iraq A26 Shoe-Hurler Seeks Pardon A26 NATIONAL OIL-INDUCED GOOD TinES Stop RoLouisianaLouItiana It wasn't just the Middle East swimming in profits from high oil prices, it was also Louisiana, a poor state with an uncommonly rich supply of natural resources.

Rooftop (the persuasive Ron Cephas Jones) has come seeking pardon — has even prayed for it with Father Lux — but, when they meet, Inez is deaf to his overtures.

And then, resisting with all my will an impulse to turn and seek pardon for my vindictiveness, I accepted my own.

3. I often waged war, civil and foreign, on the earth and sea, in the whole wide world, and as victor I spared all the citizens who sought pardon.

The logic of irrational fear The tale of two Ryans Unguessable Going nowhere Fishy stuff at Elk Creek Partisan-in-chief Reprints Related items The Republicans in Illinois: Ryan v RyanJul 11th 2002 Lexington: The unelectable Mr RyanAug 2nd 2001The most politically charged case is that of Rolando Cruz, who is now free but is seeking pardon for a past conviction.

Instead I witness my younger self walking by on the other side or engaged in some act of malevolence, spite, betrayal, something that may even have changed another's life, and I want to seek pardon but they have vanished and I am left to wonder.

In their entreaty for peace they cast the blame of the misdeed upon the multitude, and sought pardon in consideration of their ignorance.

"As I seek pardon from Your Highness, I stress that what happened will be a lesson from which I will benefit and draw appropriate conclusions.

It was a papal act of mea culpa diplomacy on a par with the visit last year to Jerusalem's Western Wall, where John Paul sought pardon for centuries of Catholic torment of the Jewish people.

He was gentle, kind and moral, and had to consult with the people ("Therefore, forgive them and seek pardon for them from Allah; and consult them in their affairs," al-Imran, 159).