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Examples of reprieve


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Of these, twenty-five men and both women were reprieved: the convictions of six others were quashed on appeal.
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We think that if some of these houses could be reprieved, it would be of considerable help.
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If my memory is correct, once the line was reprieved the figure became much lower!
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They were obviously people to whom special considerations applied, otherwise they would not have been reprieved.
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They have been reprieved because it was thought that in their cases there was a mitigating factor.
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When a death sentence has been reprieved, the substitute has always been a sentence of life imprisonment.
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He spoke of others who had not been reprieved, though he did not give their names.
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The people whose future career is thus reported upon were all people who had been reprieved.
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I suspect that the gross cost of reprieving the units involved would be in that region.
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In that context, what proportion of the programmes that have been reduced or reprieved represent capital expenditure?
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I am not so foolish as to believe that anyone can be satisfied with airports policy, except, of course, those whose areas have been reprieved.
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I am not quite sure about the position regarding reprieved prisoners.
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He will be aware that the central solution that they adopted was a subsidy on coal from the 12 allegedly reprieved pits.
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In consequence, even the 12 reprieved pits-12 out of 31—of which 10 now remain, will be closed.
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On that basis, there is no way in which the 12 so-called "reprieved" pits can have a future.
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I feel like one who had been sitting in a condemned cell and who has now been reprieved.
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The man was, in fact reprieved and a sentence of life imprisonment was substituted for the capital sentence.
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His only apparent concession, whereby up to 10 pits might be reprieved, was obviously not well based.
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An excessive number of reprieves would mean that several more colleges would be pushed closer to the precipice of non-viability.
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A line has been reprieved in my constituency.
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My point was that the front-line battalions that might be reprieved were, by nature, made up of young men who need to be recruited.
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About half the people who are sentenced to death under the present system are in fact reprieved.
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Production has already ceased at about 20 pits and the reprieved pits are again in line for closure.
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Two battalions that had been under threat were reprieved, which was most welcome.
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I hope that the review will show its integrity by reprieving that colliery, among others.
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The same arguments can be adduced for reprieving the pint of milk.
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People who are suffering from any degree of mental abnormality which reduces their moral culpability are reprieved.
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I have seen a similar document setting out those who have been reprieved.
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He was somewhat in the position of a person who was already in the tumbril on the way to the guillotine when he was reprieved.
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He was reprieved, but if he had not been, nothing could be done about it.
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Two of them were reprieved and, therefore, the problem of disposal remains.
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I am pleased to be reprieved by his decision today.
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In such cases there would be no room for self-delusion, for uncertainty or for reprieves.
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I believe, rightly or wrongly, that there have been too many reprieves just lately.
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There will be one class who are now reprieved—but there will not be any reprieves henceforward.
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He was reprieved after spending three months in the condemned cell.
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He was reprieved on the first occasion and years later he repeated that offence.
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In the coming year, they will desperately hope that they can be reprieved through the defeat of privatisation.
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Secondly, there are those who believe that he should be reprieved because they can justify his actions.
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To a man who is condemned to death the possibility of being reprieved is better than a certainty of being hanged.
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The unfortunate lady has been reprieved and has received a free pardon.
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There is also a case for reprieving both of them for a while.
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We thought that it had finally been reprieved just a few months ago, and it has been given trust status.
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Over the last 10 years, rather more than half the persons sentenced to death have been reprieved.
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He was the first man to be tried, he was reprieved, and he is still in prison, where he will be for many years.
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I have gone personally with some great care into the cases of the forty-nine women who were reprieved.
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We rely upon them to see that those who are reprieved do not escape.
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He was condemned to death, and was reprieved.
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I said to him that surely he agreed that the trike should be reprieved so that those people were not grounded.
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How often did we hear them pronounce the doom that no lame duck would be reprieved?
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Suppose that we reject this measure to-day: what happens in the future about reprieves?
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If the state wants to be generous and to forgive, as it does with reprieves and pardons, the state is free to do so.
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He had been disbarred for 18 months for misappropriation of his clients' money, though he was reprieved on a technicality.
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When they were reprieved the substitute sentence was imprisonment for life.
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There have been reprieves from time to time.
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The colliery has been reprieved almost day by day and in these circumstances we cannot watch the morale of 630 men broken.
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I shall not refer to whether he should be reprieved.
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Let us imagine that the health authority sees sense and reprieves that hospital, not in the short term, but in the longer term.
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They are, in my submission, behaving both anti-socially and irresponsibly, because they decided that the sixpence would not be reprieved.
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What they have done is to give us a number of reprieves.
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They were reprieved because of the extenuating circumstances that existed, and those people who have been reprieved were among the best prisoners in the prisons.
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We may have been lucky as our young stock and sheep are separately housed and are kept on separate holdings, so we are temporarily reprieved.
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All five of them were reprieved, and a cry of indignation went up throughout the whole of the free world.
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Furthermore, is it not the case, for instance, that a mouse was reprieved only last week and proved to be totally innocent?
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Although the law was that a boy or girl of 16 or 17 could be hanged, they were all reprieved.
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Sixty fairly well advanced closures will go ahead but 140 to 190 branches have been reprieved.
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Many people think that football hooligans, who are a minority of supporters, have had too many reprieves, and that some measures must be taken to deal with such events.
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Over the years, many community hospitals have been chopped and changed, many have closed, others have been threatened with closure and then reprieved, and wards have been closed.
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If, after this examination, there is in his mind a scintilla of doubt as to the rightness of the conviction, the convicted man is invariably reprieved.
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I can think of cases where it would possibly be disastrous to talk much about a person who had been reprieved, and to disclose his past history.
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The other is a man for whom there are many mitigating circumstances; there is the equal probability that, if he is convicted in that other country, he will be reprieved.
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The area still faces problems in achieving profitability, but as my noble friend reminds us they have been reprieved from closure at any rate for the time being.
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Without those three essential elements, or a combination thereof, the 12 reprieved pits have no future and those pits, and others perhaps on the list of 19, will inevitably close.
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They should be warmly encouraged in their use of the large-scale map in particular, and we are glad to know that is being reprieved to some degree.
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If so, having regard to the disparity between the numbers of men and of women, would he not consider a greater exercise of the recommending of reprieves?
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I am not talking of retrospective reprieves.
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Is he saying that the 10 pits could be reprieved in the review, when they have already been closed under a decision taken without proper consultation?
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Despite the fact that we have had some reprieves today which we welcome, may we have an absolute assurance that this will be regarded as the final solution?
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He certainly should have been reprieved.
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Therefore, the reprieves that they announced earlier this year and the exercise in market testing were simply nothing more, at least in their eyes, than a cynical charade.
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The reprieves granted to confessors were the last decisions the court was allowed to make.
The reprieves it then granted were the last decisions the court of oyer and terminer was allowed to make.
Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return.
Children it may however only be a reprieve.
Many feared, not without reason, that the king was about to dissolve parliament, reprieve the earl, and turn against his tormenters.
They came in large numbers, seeking reprieve from harsh taxation policies in their homelands.
While the butchers were given a reprieve, it came at a price.
Once reprieve for confession had been offered, it could not have been repeated, for there were no further trials.
A frequent procedure viewed as onerous by most patients could be perceived as a reprieve of sorts for a person accustomed to monotonous incarceration.
The government gains a reprieve, but only, perhaps, by cheaply bartering national resources ; future governments may have less revenue as a result.
We should therefore call for a reprieve, but we should not call for a complete acquittal until a fair trial has taken place.
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The answer is, two things, a few clichés and a reprieve.
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We also obtained a reprieve for foreign investments.
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We also obtained a reprieve on pensions.
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