Sentence examples for spared punishment from inspiring English sources

Several of them described cases in which unidentified senior managers of the F.B.I. had been spared punishment.

The perpetrators either want their cut in the new government, or want to make sure detained clan members, or those still at large, are spared punishment.

He said he could not be sure why, but he suspected that he had been spared punishment so that he could play a crucial role at the Sochi Games.

Piquet was also spared punishment on the grounds of the prior grant of immunity he was given by F.I.A. investigators when they opened their investigation of the Singapore events in August.

Box makers are also roundly lower, including Dell and Compaq ; notably, however, Gateway was spared punishment.

But as juveniles, the kids in these cases were spared harsh punishment.

Last month they were spared capital punishment with the judge instead deciding to give both men three consecutive life sentences.

Even if Mr. Zhou is spared public punishment or censure, Mr. Xi has sent a warning to other officials and powerful arms of the party-state, analysts said.

The hapless Warnock was spared further punishment by being withdrawn at half-time and for a while, Liverpool improved for Florent Sinama Pongolle's presence.

Outside the Gulf, women have been largely spared capital punishment, although Jordan hanged a young housewife in November 1993 - the second woman to be executed in the country's history.

Many of her supporters questioned the fairness of her sentence — her co-conspirators, who fired the fatal shots, were spared capital punishment — and doubts were raised about her mental capacity.