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    1. " These singular amnesties do occur in parties


    1. have amnesty from war on pain of excommunication


    2. Bulloch was not included in the general amnesty that came on


    3. He simply offered forgiveness, amnesty, and fairness to all, and it worked


    4. President Bush‘s flawed Immigration Reform Bill providing ―conditional‖ amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens must be reassuring to 1) (Moderate) Republicans who would consider its passage a political opportunity to place the party in better stead with Hispanic Voters and the Business Community, 2) Corporations seeking to attract Cheap(er) Labor, 3) Democrats who, for the same reasons indicated above, are uncomfortable with the idea of controlling our nation‘s borders at the risk of alienating a sizeable voting bloc and (who) would otherwise seize the moment, for purely political reasons, to challenge Republican proposals that (surprise!) ―don‘t go far enough,‖ 4) Multiculturalists and Internationalists likely to embrace such ―reforms‖ as a (positive) first step towards achieving their (respective) Universalist Agenda, and 5) Shakers of Western Culture who would seek its destruction at any cost for its own sake and who would therefore (also) consider such measures as an appropriate step in the ―right‖ direction


    5. The formal passage of this egregious bill, that ties ―guest‖ worker programs with proposed amnesty for ―resident‖ aliens, would further encourage potential lawbreakers, who, not unlike their predecessors, would feel emboldened to enter our country illegally without fear of (legal) reprisal


    6. There is also no such thing in law as a presidential pardon or amnesty in advance or for any action not specifically asked for


    7. That means that a blanket amnesty is always unlawful


    8. During the last days of Apartheid a blanket amnesty was given to all members of the Security Branch but it did not stand legally in court for these very reasons


    9. It was called a general amnesty, by which the Polish government in exile in England, led by General Władysław Sikorski reached an agreement with Stalin


    10. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and released restored to his rank under the TRC amnesty deals

    11. Roosevelt offered an amnesty for Filipino fighters and declared the war over in 1902


    12. Americans on both sides of the political aisle who simply regard this bill as a transparent attempt at extending blanket amnesty to millions of ―undocumented‖ aliens who routinely flaunt our nation‘s laws without apparent consequence


    13. He was far too lenient and granted many of them amnesty for their treason during the Civil War, pardoning all but a few hundred


    14. Overseas, one of Roosevelt's most important actions was to declare the US-Philippines War over, offer amnesty to Filipino nationalists, and push for Filipino independence, however slowly


    15. Raul’s post with the Nicaraguan embassy was to locate war refugees living in Costa Rica, and offer them the opportunity to return home with full amnesty and the right to claim a plot in Nicaragua’s ongoing land redistribution program


    16. accommodating illegal immigrants through an amnesty plan will win votes from those so accommodated, but they underestimate the degree of disaffection such a policy would


    17. recent repudiation of amnesty programs supported by both the president and many in


    18. Amos had even given them amnesty when he became the


    19. If it weren’t for the general amnesty for all criminals at my inauguration, you would be dead by now, “pharaoh was glaring at Moses


    20. Once there, a Federation Space Force officer told us we had amnesty and could book one way passage to any of a dozen places where the Federation is establishing colonies, and the Federation would pay the fare

    21. You understand that your amnesty only holds as long as you work for us


    22. They agreed to surrender in return for a guarantee of amnesty


    23. David Shapiro and the Colony Service security people worked out an amnesty deal that forgave their prior crimes as long as they remained in that system and committed no further crimes


    24. The Queen Elizabeth seemed to have developed a specialty of cleaning out planets that had been occupied by one criminal group or another, granting amnesty and moving on after a few months on site


    25. Amnesty International has already begun work on trying to


    26. He also performed at benefit concerts for various causes such as Farm-Aid and Amnesty International


    27. If long term illegal aliens can prove taxes paid to state and federal government over their stay with no “off book cash income” then I would recommend some sort of amnesty with the payment of a small fine as these aliens acted like tax paying citizens without coercion and are the kind our nation could keep without losses to the people at large


    28. He refused amnesty and threatened execution


    29. memoir, Hitler was released from prison in a general amnesty of political prisoners


    30. Amnesty International, use torture as a means of repression and

    31. There is a site called "Nunca Mas" also "Amnesty International"


    32. At this moment 128 countries, according to Amnesty International,


    33. The murderers who had used them then had recently been released early from prison under the amnesty


    34. It is however still regarded as being widespread by Amnesty International


    35. In the absence of government amnesty programs, (such asThe Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, set to expire at the end of 2012), the amount listed on the 1099-C that you receive from your lender after the short sale will be treated as ordinary income on your tax return


    36. Amnesty International has detailed thirty methods of torture in blood and tears used in Iraq, from beating to mutilation, from rape to electricution, including the gouging out of eyes, the cutting off noses, breasts, penises and limbs


    37. Emphaty is love united with amnesty


    38. gave amnesty a try,


    39. I interned with Amnesty International


    40. He made sure to point out that the amnesty order included all their previous crimes and had been signed and sealed by the prefect himself and now it was to be executed

    41. Even their previous convictions were included in the amnesty


    42. If you do not persevere in your communication with God, you will neither be appointed to these positions nor get your amnesty; do you understand? In the past you have committed atrocities and crimes which prevented you from praying and standing in God’s Presence, but now you have repented these transgressions


    43. 6- What was the important thing that the great Officer Mohammad Amin ordered the seventy men to do after he had read to them their appointment order and the amnesty one?


    44. Love reappeared as the bagged game upon the table and the strange fruit hanging from crosshaired trees in the faces of the could have been terrorists assassinated last Amnesty Day singing NuLuv's yet to be released product pop ring tone: 'i-Be, u-Be, wii-Be zombiies!'


    45. ” Urit looked for amnesty from the stick's demands by staring into the corners of the lobby


    46. You have amnesty


    47. In 1981 the Government called an amnesty for all


    48. Their wives, some de facto, had been arrested when they had tried to register their offspring during an amnesty for child illegal immigrants and now they themselves were about to be repatriated to China where they would have to join the three to twenty year queue to gain a legal one-way pass to Hong Kong


    49. The women had been illegal immigrants themselves so the amnesty had not applied to them and the authorities had been unyielding to the clamour for exceptional leniency


    50. Even Amnesty International had written, promising to launch its investigation into these allegations




















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    Synonyms for "amnesty"

    amnesty free pardon pardon liberation exemption discharge acquittal reprieve deliverance

    "amnesty" definitions

    a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment


    a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense


    the formal act of liberating someone


    grant a pardon to (a group of people)