Sentence examples for sweeping pardon from inspiring English sources
Yet far from holding anyone accountable, King Salman of Saudi Arabia in July issued a sweeping pardon of all military personnel involved in the Yemen operation.
It is in perfect keeping with this old logic that North Korea's communist monarchy marked the ascension of the latest Kim to rule nation with a sweeping pardon of prisoners.
The extension follows a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling Thursday that validated Mr. Fletcher's sweeping pardon last summer of anyone in his administration except himself who might face charges in the inquiry into claims of illegal patronage.
These included privatization of state companies and sweeping pardons for military officers and guerrillas accused of human rights abuses during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
On Sunday he put an end to months of mounting pressure from the Catholic Church and some in the country's right-wing establishment to make a grand healing gesture to the country by issuing sweeping pardons.
Such obvious criminalization of freedom of assembly and expression might seem to contradict President Vladimir Putin's recent, sweeping prisoner amnesty and pardon of high profile Prisoner of Conscience Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which led some to wonder whether he had begun to embrace increased respect for free expression and other human rights in the lead-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
On both, Giuliani argued that the president probably has the sweeping constitutional authority to pardon even himself of federal crimes.
It's certainly an iconic image that, if you'll pardon me a massive sweeping generalization completely unsupported by facts, won Obama the election.
And no one can be completely comfortable with this sort of sweeping use of the governor's right to pardon.
Industrialists who break the law have had their sentences commuted or been pardoned on the basis of their contributions to the national economy, sweeping them back to their corner offices.
