Sentence examples for some pardons from inspiring English sources

Some pardons were arranged by a chain of close Clinton friends and advisers.

"I am disappointed by the process, but I am pleased not to be in the category of those who have been successful," he said, alluding to the controversy over some pardons that were granted.

Granting some pardons won't, by itself, reverse the generations-long effects of the war on drugs, but this would be no small start in terms of righting some of those wrongs.

GoEd: If you want things to * stay * quiet GoEd: it may be good to engender some good will among your toughest critics GoEd: i.e. the Huffington Post GoEd: I'm thinking of those post-election months GoEd: when you'll want to push through some pardons GoEd: and maybe an appointment or two.

And it is quite possible, he said in the interview on Tuesday, that among his fellow prisoners will be some whose pardons he rejected when he was president from 2000 to 2007.

Although US presidents have granted some surprising pardons when leaving office, the chances of Obama doing so seem remote, even though before he entered the White House he was a constitutional lawyer who often made the case for privacy and had warned about the dangers of mass surveillance.

"When the whole thing is over, things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons," Giuliani told The New York Daily News.

In one of them she is standing by a tree, with her eyes averted, and holding a sign on which is written, "Some will be pardoned, some will be punished," the creed of all lonely and overlooked people.

Some were prosecuted for doing so, and then some were pardoned for the act.

Late on Jan . 16 I believe, the staff met with President Clinton on some other pardon matters, and the president brought up the Rich case and told us that he thought Mr. Quinn had made some meritorious points in his submission.

These considerations thus suggest that despite some similarities, pardon and forgiveness are significantly different notions.