This act of clemency must not be understood as affording a precedent for any future case.

At issue in the new disclosures were two acts of clemency that had already seemed puzzling.

A kiss from my betrothed, a word or gentle pleading, are little enough to ask in exchange for an act of clemency.

If this really was an act of clemency on Julius Caesar's part may be disputed.

As an act of clemency, he declared that they would be allowed to keep their lands in a state of "shameful service".

The act of clemency is a reprieve.

The churchmen and the noblemen remonstrated warmly against the act of clemency.

We either accepted these acts of clemency or we did not, but we had little doubt about the motives behind them.

Cuba called the releases "an act of clemency and good will in memory of the visit," but also made clear it would continue to tolerate no dissent.

The monarchists in command disapproved of this act of clemency but, in time, they did recognize the need for peace in the army.

After imposing sentence, the Taiwan High Court commuted Chang's prison term to five years as an act of clemency.

By an act of clemency, this sentence was commuted to banishment for life; but after a brief exile, Flathers returned to England and his mission.

Bad Conduct Discharges handed down by a Special Court-Martial may be upgraded only as an act of clemency.

The government described it as an act of clemency, but the documents suggest that it was a calculated attempt to bolster loyalty and fatten the military ranks.

A similar boon to the partially conquered Boers led to very different results, and the prolongation of the war is largely due to this act of clemency.

Nerone is impressed by Drusilla's fortitude, and in an act of clemency spares Ottone's life, ordering him banished.

But if Queen Anne was capable of acts of clemency towards individual Catholics, she showed no compromise to Catholics in general.

"He admitted that being allowed to die was an act of clemency for a double murderer, relieving him of the relentless confinement he dreaded more than death."

Pardons and acts of clemency (grâces) are granted by the President of France, who, ultimately, is the sole judge of the propriety of the measure.

After reviewing the applicant for clemency, and a favorable vote from the majority, the Board may empower the Governor to make such acts of clemency as he deems necessary.

"It appropriately promotes the safety of officers, when, in the rare case, an inmate's exceptional behavior is recognized by an act of clemency," the officer, Ben Aronoff, wrote to the governor.

The government pursued a strategy of weakening the Jacobite sympathies of elite families by acts of clemency and following solicitation by Murray's father he was pardoned in 1725.

The itinerant dwarf had renewed his oaths with the Guild and, in and act of clemency, they had spared him the humiliation of the Trouser Leg Ritual and banishment.

A Puerto Rican nationalist group staged a celebration and rally tonight in Chicago, where Mayor Richard M. Daley and police officials have been highly critical of the President's act of clemency.

After my review, I find myself in agreement with the four members of the Board of Pardons who concluded the mitigating evidence here is sufficiently substantial that an act of clemency on my part is warranted.

This act of clemency must not be understood as affording a precedent for any future case.

At issue in the new disclosures were two acts of clemency that had already seemed puzzling.

A kiss from my betrothed, a word or gentle pleading, are little enough to ask in exchange for an act of clemency.

If this really was an act of clemency on Julius Caesar's part may be disputed.

As an act of clemency, he declared that they would be allowed to keep their lands in a state of "shameful service".

The act of clemency is a reprieve.

The churchmen and the noblemen remonstrated warmly against the act of clemency.

We either accepted these acts of clemency or we did not, but we had little doubt about the motives behind them.

Cuba called the releases "an act of clemency and good will in memory of the visit," but also made clear it would continue to tolerate no dissent.

The monarchists in command disapproved of this act of clemency but, in time, they did recognize the need for peace in the army.

After imposing sentence, the Taiwan High Court commuted Chang's prison term to five years as an act of clemency.

By an act of clemency, this sentence was commuted to banishment for life; but after a brief exile, Flathers returned to England and his mission.

Bad Conduct Discharges handed down by a Special Court-Martial may be upgraded only as an act of clemency.

The government described it as an act of clemency, but the documents suggest that it was a calculated attempt to bolster loyalty and fatten the military ranks.

A similar boon to the partially conquered Boers led to very different results, and the prolongation of the war is largely due to this act of clemency.

Nerone is impressed by Drusilla's fortitude, and in an act of clemency spares Ottone's life, ordering him banished.

But if Queen Anne was capable of acts of clemency towards individual Catholics, she showed no compromise to Catholics in general.

"He admitted that being allowed to die was an act of clemency for a double murderer, relieving him of the relentless confinement he dreaded more than death."

A Final Act of Clemency One letter - on the matter of enlisting blacks to serve in the Union Army - is marked "Private."

Pardons and acts of clemency (grâces) are granted by the President of France, who, ultimately, is the sole judge of the propriety of the measure.

After reviewing the applicant for clemency, and a favorable vote from the majority, the Board may empower the Governor to make such acts of clemency as he deems necessary.

"It appropriately promotes the safety of officers, when, in the rare case, an inmate's exceptional behavior is recognized by an act of clemency," the officer, Ben Aronoff, wrote to the governor.

The government pursued a strategy of weakening the Jacobite sympathies of elite families by acts of clemency and following solicitation by Murray's father he was pardoned in 1725.

The itinerant dwarf had renewed his oaths with the Guild and, in and act of clemency, they had spared him the humiliation of the Trouser Leg Ritual and banishment.

A Puerto Rican nationalist group staged a celebration and rally tonight in Chicago, where Mayor Richard M. Daley and police officials have been highly critical of the President's act of clemency.

Her thesis is that the act of pardon, like any other act of government, must be sanctioned by a theory of justice.

The Constitutional Court of Italy has ruled that the Minister of Justice is obliged to sign acts of pardon.

Would it not be better to lay the act of pardon upon Doctor Conrad Guyon than to lay the act of embezzlement upon your son?"

While our acts of pardon or clemency are not directly analogous to the decision pending before the Senate, how that body resolves the issue can have similar benefits of healing and finality.

He was questioned by the committee of sequestrations of Herefordshire in 1648 and discharged and was questioned again in 1652 when he begged discharge on the Act of Pardon.

At the Restoration he was one of the regicides notified as dead, and excepted from the act of Pardon and Oblivion of 6 June 1660 (which meant that his estate was subject to confiscation).

Cromwell's Act of Grace or more formally the Act of Pardon and Grace to the People of Scotland, was proclaimed at the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh on 5 May 1654.

The provision still allows statutes to exclude judicial review in "exceptional cases" that are considered not amenable to judicial review, such as actes de gouvernement e.g. in the area of national security, or acts of pardon or clemency.

He supported the Royalist cause in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and was fined £1000, under the terms of the English Commonwealth's Act of Pardon and Grace to the People of Scotland.

After the restoration of the monarchy he was not exempted under the Act of Pardon and Oblivion but the titles granted to him under the Protectorate were not recognised under the restored monarchy of Charles II.

On 31 January 1690 he and Obadiah Walker were brought by habeas corpus from the Tower to the bar of the king's bench, and were bailed on good security; but both were excepted out of the act of pardon dated 23 May following.

This clause was thrown out by the Lords on 1 August; but on the next day they resolved that sixteen persons, among whom Packe was included, should be disqualified from holding in future any public office or employment under penalty of being excepted from the act of pardon.

Gerald Ford's funeral was a snapshot of a country united - political supporters and opponents alike paying tribute to a president, who was surrounded by an honor guard representing every color of the American rainbow and whose place in history was secured by an act of pardon and national healing.