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  • If poor Mama Elena had known that even after she was dead her presence was enough to inspire terror—and that this fear of encountering her is what provided Tita and Pedro the perfect opportunity to profane her favorite place with impunity, rolling voluptuously on Gertrudis's bed—she would have died another hundred times over.†   (source)
  • No man sheds Lannister blood with impunity.†   (source)
  • The bandits are so well known and seem to operate with such impunity that Mario Campos Gutierrez, a supervisor with Grupo Beta Sur, thinks the authorities collaborate.†   (source)
  • Probably not, but whoever sent the egg might be powerful enough to use force with impunity.†   (source)
  • But the absence of unions can permit corporations to behave like continuing criminal enterprises, to violate labor laws with impunity.†   (source)
  • Ideals can't be betrayed with impunity, and now we must all take the consequences.†   (source)
  • "Whereas Grace could accuse him with relative impunity," says Simon.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza breathed the good air of impunity in the empty salon, and from the gunwale they both watched a noisy crowd of people gathering their luggage in the cars of a train that looked like a toy.†   (source)
  • The boy will know by that time how to oppress with impunity.†   (source)
  • The dog was smart enough to figure out that only I posed a threat, and he could still jump on the rest of the human race with impunity.†   (source)
  • The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity.†   (source)
  • They were kidnapped and sold into slavery with impunity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Arab slave traders.†   (source)
  • But you Americans will have to learn that generations of blood and breeding are not to be skipped with impunity.†   (source)
  • Words like: viscous, impunity, paroxysm, unctuous, nefarious, onanistic, perfidious, lugubrious.†   (source)
  • He liked to say that the CIA was in turn watching his back in the United States, allowing him to sell cocaine with impunity.†   (source)
  • We are talking about 3 million people who in effect are the property of another person and in many cases could be killed by their owner with impunity.†   (source)
  • Herds of big-horned bharal, thriving far from human habitation, watched the vehicle's progress with impunity.†   (source)
  • You alone of all creatures can see death that way with impunity.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba was stronger, and he had impunity.†   (source)
  • I too had touched a white man today and I felt that it had been disastrous, and I realized then that he was the only one of us whom I knew-except perhaps a barber or a nursemaid-who could touch a white man with impunity.†   (source)
  • Their deals were made-are made-and they move with impunity.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist had not slept for thirty-six hours, and the days when he could skip a night's sleep with impunity were long gone.†   (source)
  • Why then not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity.†   (source)
  • Considering the impunity with which they seemed to think they could use guns, the men whom he had encountered must be military personnel or federal agents.†   (source)
  • A way to kill with impunity.†   (source)
  • There was rampant and blatant corruption, and complete impunity for those who practiced it -- and impunity also for the soldiers who killed and the officers who gave them their orders.†   (source)
  • War cannot be explained in the terms of the world we know, but as it moves through all we know, it does so with impunity and surprise.†   (source)
  • I expect to murder every Yankee I ever meet when I can do so with impunity if I live a hundred years and peace is made in six months….†   (source)
  • If a governor of New York led a conspiracy, until the hostilities actually started, he could insure his accomplices entire impunity.†   (source)
  • Carter's words meant little; as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he had no power to let a foreign intelligence service operate with impunity on American soil.†   (source)
  • Only one person in the world could with impunity and without crime lie between her crisp ironed sheets after dawn, after sunup, even to the far reaches of midmorning, and that was her youngest and last born, Joe.†   (source)
  • It can't be forever violated with impunity.†   (source)
  • Amir, the socially legitimate half, the half that represented the riches he had inherited and the sin-with-impunity privileges that came with them.   (source)
    impunity = exemption or freedom from punishment or loss
  • There is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need, I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.   (source)
  • Elves are strong, but even they cannot endure abuse like this with impunity.†   (source)
  • Here they can rob, rape, or abandon their clients with impunity.†   (source)
  • Probably not, but whoever sent the egg might be powerful enough to use force with impunity.†   (source)
  • But he could not do that with impunity; he was a soldier and to turn away was not in him.†   (source)
  • If it were, I wouldn't mind admitting it, because at my age you can say those things with impunity.†   (source)
  • The youngest was also the quietest, the one who seemed reluctant to wholeheartedly embrace his friends' air of impunity.†   (source)
  • Yes, he seemed to be saying, here I am in your famed Boyarsky, one of the chosen few who pass with impunity through the doors of Chef Zhukovsky's kitchen.†   (source)
  • Watching B-29s crossing over with impunity, they knew that Japan's air defenses had been gutted, and that the Americans were very close.†   (source)
  • That New Year's Eve a small group of utterly exhausted Jews walked through the streets of a city where declarations of Polish patriotism had been forbidden for years on pain of death, singing at the top of our voices and with total impunity the patriotic song, lHej, strzelcy wraz. r — 'Hey, marksmen, arise!'†   (source)
  • Many of these children develop criminal records for behavior that more affluent children engage in with impunity.†   (source)
  • It slays her that the warlords have been allowed back to Kabul That her parents' murderers live in posh homes with walled gardens, that they have been appointed minister of this and deputy minister of that, that they ride with impunity in shiny, bulletproof SUVs through neighborhoods that they demolished.†   (source)
  • But for all his wicked power, he could not stop Eragon and Saphira from invading his realm and killing four of his most favored servants, nor Eragon from crossing the Empire with impunity.†   (source)
  • The soldiers' reactions seemed slow and clumsy to Eragon as he danced through their ranks, cutting them down with impunity.†   (source)
  • Still, Eragon could not help but imagine what it would be like to fight with Ascudgamln, to be able to strike anything he wanted with impunity, including armored Urgals.†   (source)
  • When he again deigned to speak, it was with a tinge of amusement: You are overly ambitious if your goal is to be able to kill Shades with impunity.†   (source)
  • Second, it would be unwise to take any step before hand that might hold out the possibility of impunity.†   (source)
  • And so it was that Gabriel Allon, the man who had operated on French soil with impunity and had left a trail of dead bodies stretching from Paris to Marseilles, entered the Interior Ministry at half past ten that evening, with Alpha Group's chief at his side.†   (source)
  • The thought that a seemingly ordinary person could kill with a word; invade your mind if he or she wished; cheat, lie, and steal without being caught; and otherwise defy society with near impunity ….†   (source)
  • Without you, Murtagh and Thorn could have slaughtered our warriors with impunity, and we had no way of discovering whether the two of them were among the soldiers.†   (source)
  • John Fenno, editor of the rival Gazette of the United States, asked, "In the name of justice and honor, how long are we to tolerate this scum of party filth and beggerly corruption …. to go thus with impunity?"†   (source)
  • He ruled a gang of hoodlums who controlled Kasturba Nagar and who robbed, murdered, and tortured with impunity.†   (source)
  • That was the period when divine good humor and the hidden forces of human nature acted with impunity to provoke a state of emergency and upheaval in the laws of physics and logic.†   (source)
  • And when parties are equally matched, the secret sympathy of friends of the condemned person might bestow impunity where the terror of an example was necessary.†   (source)
  • With them, Yarbog could butt and gore Roran with impunity, and they would also protect the sides of Yarbog's head from any blows Roran could deliver with his bare hands, although they limited the Urgal's peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • "What idea, my dear madame, can you form of the manners of a nation, one city of which furnishes (blush oh, my sex, when I name it) 52,000 unmarried females so lost to a sense of honor and shame as publicly to enroll their names in a notary office for the most abandoned purposes and to commit iniquity with impunity," she wrote in outrage to Mercy Warren.†   (source)
  • That way you have impunity.†   (source)
  • It had been a long time since he had heard orders from the mouth of a civilian, and for a moment he was tempted to take her to the stockade and leave her there to rot in a cell, bathed in her own blood, until she got down on her knees and begged him, but his profession had taught him that there were men more powerful than he and that he could not afford the luxury of acting with impunity.†   (source)
  • Through this correspondence, which Nfvea violated with impunity at regular intervals, she learned about the hazards of a miner's life, always dreading avalanches, pursuing elusive veins, asking for credit against good luck that was still to come, and trusting that someday he would strike a marvelous seam of gold that would allow him to become a rich man overnight and return to lead Rosa by the arm to the altar, thus becoming the happiest man in the universe, as he always wrote at the…†   (source)
  • …so far away from their beloved fatherland, when it could be placed on the bottom, where it would appear in a more favorable light; and while they were at it they painted vast areas of Prussian-blue territorial waters that stretched all the way to Africa and Asia, and appropriated distant countries in the geography books, leaping borders with impunity until the neighboring countries lost their patience, sought help from the United Nations, and threatened to send in tanks and planes.†   (source)
  • And there was the world of the mother's darlings, of smart students and rich merchants' sons; the world of impunity, of brazen, insolent vice; of rich m?†   (source)
  • With impunity, Mr. Marx," he added, turning to Bernard.†   (source)
  • She shouted for her impatiently, knowing she could raise her voice with impunity, as Ellen was in the smokehouse, measuring out the day's food to Cookie.†   (source)
  • Sometimes perhaps a tramp will wander there, seeking shelter from a sudden shower of rain and, if he is stout-hearted, he may walk there with impunity.†   (source)
  • If he kills merely to amuse himself he would not advertise the fact, since, otherwise, he could kill with impunity.†   (source)
  • When this poor black boy, Bigger Thomas, was trying to cast the blame for his crime upon one of the witnesses, Jan Erlone, a Communist, who faced this Court yesterday"and this boy thought he would be able to blame his crime upon the Communists with impunity, because the newspapers had convinced him that Communists were criminals"an example of such fear-guilt occurred.†   (source)
  • Though the hero was warned against touching these waters on the journey out, he now can enter them with impunity.†   (source)
  • Then he said, "There's nothing in the constitution says that Byram B. White can commit a felony with impunity.†   (source)
  • But we do save that one, who but for us would have been sold to any brute who had the price, not sold to him for the night like a white prostitute, but body and soul for life to him who could have used her with more impunity than he would dare to use an animal, heifer or mare, and then discarded or sold or even murdered when worn out or when her keep and her price no longer balanced.†   (source)
  • He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with impunity.†   (source)
  • A lynx's lair is not despoiled with impunity.†   (source)
  • My work may be of none, but I must not think it is of none, or I shall not do it with impunity.†   (source)
  • You were not even guilty of robbery, when you might have robbed with impunity.†   (source)
  • I mean that if there were, it would be impossible to draw up with impunity two such deeds as these.†   (source)
  • Questions that would have been resented in others she could ask with impunity.†   (source)
  • Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.†   (source)
  • The Nautilus tacked about and retreated from this furnace it couldn't brave with impunity.†   (source)
  • You pass close to them every day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything.†   (source)
  • I entreat thee; for, though it is done often with impunity, there is sometimes danger.†   (source)
  • He had an inexhaustible stock of stories about their crimes and follies, how they bribed the courts and shot down their butlers with impunity whenever they chose.†   (source)
  • To indulge one's instinctive and uncontrolled sense of justice and right, was not, he had found, permitted with impunity in an old civilization like ours.†   (source)
  • My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.†   (source)
  • Jurgis had once been among those who scoffed at the idea of these huge concerns cheating; and so now he could appreciate the bitter irony of the fact that it was precisely their size which enabled them to do it with impunity.†   (source)
  • At once Clyde, who had been so brisk and urgent in establishing this relationship and had given Roberta the impression that he was a sophisticated and masterful youth who knew much more of life than ever she could hope to know, and to whom all such dangers and difficulties as were implied in the relationship could be left with impunity, was at a loss what to do.†   (source)
  • There was also a poet, German by name, but a Russian poet; very presentable, and even handsome-the sort of man one could bring into society with impunity.†   (source)
  • And as she always returned safe and sound, he marvelled at the strength, at the suppleness of the human body, which was able continually to hold in check, to outwit all the perils that environed it (which to Swann seemed innumerable, since his own secret desire had strewn them in her path), and so allowed its occupant, the soul, to abandon itself, day after day, and almost with impunity, to its career of mendacity, to the pursuit of pleasure.†   (source)
  • I fancy he meant impunity.†   (source)
  • I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.†   (source)
  • At first he felt that this nearness was a distinct reason for not going southward at all; but Christminster was too sad a place to bear, while the proximity of Shaston to Melchester might afford him the glory of worsting the Enemy in a close engagement, such as was deliberately sought by the priests and virgins of the early Church, who, disdaining an ignominious flight from temptation, became even chamber-partners with impunity.†   (source)
  • Practically I thought I had impunity to do whatever I chose, everything—save to give away my secret.†   (source)
  • He could no longer command a job when he wanted it; he could no longer steal with impunity—he must take his chances with the common herd.†   (source)
  • 'Then one of the whites remembered that some tobacco had been left in the boat, and, encouraged by the impunity of the Solomon Islander, said he would go to fetch it.†   (source)
  • So perfect was the organisation of the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the perpetrators.†   (source)
  • The scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping at trifles; those who were nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word.†   (source)
  • The relations of husband and wife, parent and child, were too sacred for the richest noble in the land to violate with impunity.†   (source)
  • Having impulsively, it is probable, and perhaps somewhat prematurely revealed the prime but private purpose of the Pequod's voyage, Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing, he had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command.†   (source)
  • In ages of equality every man naturally stands alone; he has no hereditary friends whose co-operation he may demand—no class upon whose sympathy he may rely: he is easily got rid of, and he is trampled on with impunity.†   (source)
  • He began abruptly to pass from the impunity of things to their solemnity, and from their being delightful to their being impossible.†   (source)
  • "But surely," said she, "I may enter his county without impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me."†   (source)
  • It seemed certain that Fogg would not stop at Yokohama, but would at once take the boat for San Francisco; and the vast extent of America would ensure him impunity and safety.†   (source)
  • We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own case, link us indissolubly with the established order.†   (source)
  • So, we are told, the New Hollander goes naked with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes.†   (source)
  • Divided into seven compartments by watertight bulkheads, the Scotia could brave any leak with impunity.†   (source)
  • But Jasper had no such intention: familiar with the shore, and acquainted with the depth of water on every part of the island, he well knew that the Scud might be run against the bank with impunity, and he ventured fearlessly so near, that, as he passed through the little cove, he swept the two boats of the soldiers from their fastenings and forced them out into the channel, towing them with the cutter.†   (source)
  • In the United States the action of the Government may be slackened with impunity, because it is always weak and circumscribed.†   (source)
  • I consider jealousy, as you know, a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it; but there are certain rules of decorum which cannot be disregarded with impunity.†   (source)
  • It was the abuse of impunity by the side of the abuse of punishment; two bad things which strove to correct each other.†   (source)
  • He complicated this exordium by an exposition in which he painted the power and the deeds of the cardinal, that incomparable minister, that conqueror of past ministers, that example for ministers to come—deeds and power which none could thwart with impunity.†   (source)
  • Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.†   (source)
  • It might be true, indeed, that this was a life which could not, with impunity, be lived too long; else, it might make me permanently other than I had been, without transforming me into any shape which it would be worth my while to take.†   (source)
  • And the very enormity of this offence against all manly and honourable sentiment proved, beyond doubt, the main if not the sole reason of the impunity with which it was committed.†   (source)
  • As if satisfied with the toil of marching through the wilderness to encounter his enemy, the French general, though of approved skill, had neglected to seize the adjacent mountains; whence the besieged might have been exterminated with impunity, and which, in the more modern warfare of the country, would not have been neglected for a single hour.†   (source)
  • As far as its principle is concerned, the Censorship is the most popular institution in England; and the playwright who criticizes it is slighted as a blackguard agitating for impunity.†   (source)
  • I can't expect you to pat me on the head for what I did to Grigory, for one can't break old men's heads with impunity.†   (source)
  • Because he is not free to show himself and to speak for himself, you would let such people insult him with impunity.†   (source)
  • Luckily for him, all of the Indians had dropped their rifles in the pursuit, or this retreat might not have been effected with impunity; though no one had noted the canoe in the first confusion of the melee.†   (source)
  • When from the walls, hooting and hissing him, the Jews beheld his guard enter the north gate of the city and march to the Tower of Antonia, they understood the real purpose of the visit—a full cohort of legionaries was added to the former garrison, and the keys of their yoke could now be tightened with impunity.†   (source)
  • He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband.†   (source)
  • Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.†   (source)
  • It is always so with some people; they think a doctor can be deceived with the same impunity as another man.†   (source)
  • Sonia, timid by nature, had felt before that day that she could be ill-treated more easily than anyone, and that she could be wronged with impunity.†   (source)
  • He had been inwardly annoyed, however, when he had asked at the Infirmary about the woman he had recommended two days before, to hear from the house-surgeon, a youngster who was not sorry to vex Minchin with impunity, exactly what had occurred: he privately pronounced that it was indecent in a general practitioner to contradict a physician's diagnosis in that open manner, and afterwards agreed with Wrench that Lydgate was disagreeably inattentive to etiquette.†   (source)
  • All would pay deference to an officer like you, with a fierce mustache and a long sabre, but they think they may crush a poor weeping girl with impunity.†   (source)
  • "Sire," replied the provost of Paris, "I imagine that since the populace has come to tear her from her asylum in NotreDame, 'tis because that impunity wounds them, and they desire to hang her."†   (source)
  • "Ah, pardieu!" continued he, "if it were as easy for me to get rid of my enemy as it is easy to get rid of yours, and if it were against such people you require impunity—"†   (source)
  • The vapidness of such drama as the pseudo-operatic plays contain lies in the fact that in them animal passion, sentimentally diluted, is shewn in conflict, not with real circumstances, but with a set of conventions and assumptions half of which do not exist off the stage, whilst the other half can either be evaded by a pretence of compliance or defied with complete impunity by any reasonably strong-minded person.†   (source)
  • The latter gave him no concern, for he relied greatly on the sagacity of the elder, and the known impunity with which the younger passed among the savages.†   (source)
  • I think that if the statesmen of aristocratic ages could sometimes contemn forms with impunity, and frequently rise above them, the statesmen to whom the government of nations is now confided ought to treat the very least among them with respect, and not neglect them without imperious necessity.†   (source)
  • For in certain countries which profess to enjoy the privileges of freedom every individual agent of the Government may violate the laws with impunity, since those whom he oppresses cannot prosecute him before the courts of justice.†   (source)
  • One might have thought there was in that cellar one of those famished ogres—the gigantic heroes of popular legends, into whose cavern nobody could force their way with impunity.†   (source)
  • She did not find the friendly offices of Hist, though her character not only bestowed impunity from pain and captivity, but it procured for her a consideration and an attention that placed her, on the score of comfort, quite on a level with the wild but gentle beings around her.†   (source)
  • Then, too, my father is not a person whose orders may be infringed with impunity; protected as he is by his high position and firmly established reputation for talent and unswerving integrity, no one could oppose him; he is all-powerful even with the king; he would crush you at a word.†   (source)
  • It could honestly be said that he had stretched between himself and his assailants a network of electricity no one could clear with impunity.†   (source)
  • One is not a century with impunity.†   (source)
  • At such times no citizen is so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed—no private rights are so unimportant that they can be surrendered with impunity to the caprices of a government.†   (source)
  • Marmaduke prevented any reply, and assuming the action of matters with a dignity and discretion that at once silenced all opposition from his cousin, Benjamin was dispatched to the village by land, and the net was hauled to shore in such a manner that the fish for once escaped its meshes with impunity.†   (source)
  • In countries in which these associations do not exist, if private individuals are unable to create an artificial and a temporary substitute for them, I can imagine no permanent protection against the most galling tyranny; and a great people may be oppressed by a small faction, or by a single individual, with impunity.†   (source)
  • "We could even go to greater depths and find that temperature layer common to all ocean water, and there we'd brave with impunity the –30° or –40° cold on the surface."†   (source)
  • "Amen!" said Athos, "and we will return to that subject later, if such be your pleasure; but what for the moment engaged my attention most earnestly, and I am sure you will understand me, d'Artagnan, was the getting from this woman a kind of carte blanche which she had extorted from the cardinal, and by means of which she could with impunity get rid of you and perhaps of us."†   (source)
  • But even Hurry was awed by the stern composure of the chief, and he, too, knew that such a man was not to be outraged with impunity; he therefore turned to vent his rage on Deerslayer, where he foresaw no consequences so terrible.†   (source)
  • Then he added, "Monsieur, you may rest assured I shall perform my duty impartially, and that if he be innocent you shall not have appealed to me in vain; should he, however, be guilty, in this present epoch, impunity would furnish a dangerous example, and I must do my duty."†   (source)
  • This submersible was no resisting rock that waves could demolish; it was a steel spindle, obediently in motion, without rigging or masting, and able to brave their fury with impunity.†   (source)
  • Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?†   (source)
  • While I had never seen her other than good-humored, she did not appear to be the sort of person to be insulted with impunity.†   (source)
  • …unique birthplace of Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon (containing statues of nude Grecian divinities), the Wall street money market (which controlled international finance), the Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where O'Hara of the Camerons had slain the bull), Niagara (over which no human being had passed with impunity), the land of the Eskimos (eaters of soap), the forbidden country of Thibet (from which no traveller returns), the bay of Naples (to see which was to die), the Dead Sea.†   (source)
  • Henry James, in "The Question of Our Speech," attacked "such forms of impunity as /somewheres else/ and /nowheres else/, /a good ways on/ and /a good ways off/" as "vulgarisms with what a great deal of general credit for what we good-naturedly call 'refinement' appears so able to coexist.†   (source)
  • By heaven, thou shalt not rate And jeer and flout me with impunity.†   (source)
  • However, though he was not guilty of ill manners by rebuking a gentleman in his own house, he paid him off obliquely in the pulpit: which had not, indeed, the good effect of working a reformation in the squire himself; yet it so far operated on his conscience, that he put the laws very severely in execution against others, and the magistrate was the only person in the parish who could swear with impunity.†   (source)
  • The hope of impunity is a strong incitement to sedition; the dread of punishment, a proportionably strong discouragement to it.†   (source)
  • And indeed it was very hard, that nineteen of us should be bullied by three villains, continually offending with impunity.†   (source)
  • ] If I were in her place, most assuredly No man would wed me with impunity, And I'd prove to him right after the wedding That a wife's vengeance lies in the bedding!†   (source)
  • Examples Of Impunity, Extenuate The same Fact, if it have been constantly punished in other men, as a greater Crime, than if there have been may precedent Examples of impunity.†   (source)
  • Would this last expectation have any influence at all, when the probability was computed, that the person who was to afford that exemption might himself be involved in the consequences of the measure, and might be incapacitated by his agency in it from affording the desired impunity?†   (source)
  • Impunity maketh Insolence; Insolence Hatred; and Hatred, an Endeavour to pull down all oppressing and contumelious greatnesse, though with the ruine of the Common-wealth.†   (source)
  • And when parties were pretty equally matched, the secret sympathy of the friends and favorers of the condemned person, availing itself of the good-nature and weakness of others, might frequently bestow impunity where the terror of an example was necessary.†   (source)
  • For those Examples, are so many hopes of Impunity given by the Soveraign himselfe: And because he which furnishes a man with such a hope, and presumption of mercy, as encourageth him to offend, hath his part in the offence; he cannot reasonably charge the offender with the whole.†   (source)
  • If a governor of New York, therefore, should be at the head of any such conspiracy, until the design had been ripened into actual hostility he could insure his accomplices and adherents an entire impunity.†   (source)
  • Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions also that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing; whereas Reason is not perpetually present, to resist them: and therefore whensoever the hope of impunity appears, their effects proceed.†   (source)
  • If it should be observed, that a discretionary power, with a view to such contingencies, might be occasionally conferred upon the President, it may be answered in the first place, that it is questionable, whether, in a limited Constitution, that power could be delegated by law; and in the second place, that it would generally be impolitic beforehand to take any step which might hold out the prospect of impunity.†   (source)
  • …the causes, and originall constitution of Right, Equity, Law, and Justice, disposeth a man to make Custome and Example the rule of his actions; in such manner, as to think that Unjust which it hath been the custome to punish; and that Just, of the impunity and approbation whereof they can produce an Example, or (as the Lawyers which onely use the false measure of Justice barbarously call it) a Precedent; like little children, that have no other rule of good and evill manners, but the…†   (source)
  • Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings interrupted with impunity; but a dependence of the members of the general government on the State comprehending the seat of the government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might bring on the national councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy.†   (source)
  • …the Soveraign Power, that Justice be equally administred to all degrees of People; that is, that as well the rich, and mighty, as poor and obscure persons, may be righted of the injuries done them; so as the great, may have no greater hope of impunity, when they doe violence, dishonour, or any Injury to the meaner sort, than when one of these, does the like to one of them: For in this consisteth Equity; to which, as being a Precept of the Law of Nature, a Soveraign is as much subject,…†   (source)
  • And yet what reason is there, that a majority of the House of Representatives, sacrificing the interests of the society by an unjust and tyrannical act of legislation, should escape with impunity, more than two thirds of the Senate, sacrificing the same interests in an injurious treaty with a foreign power?†   (source)
  • …Fact done against the Law, if it proceed from Presumption of strength, riches, or friends to resist those that are to execute the Law, is a greater Crime, than if it proceed from hope of not being discovered, or of escape by flight: For Presumption of impunity by force, is a Root, from whence springeth, at all times, and upon all temptations, a contempt of all Lawes; whereas in the later case, the apprehension of danger, that makes a man fly, renders him more obedient for the future.†   (source)
  • …the tumour of their own hearts for the Spirit of God; or they must suffer themselves to bee lead by some strange Prince; or by some of their fellow subjects, that can bewitch them, by slander of the government, into rebellion, without other miracle to confirm their calling, then sometimes an extraordinary successe, and Impunity; and by this means destroying all laws, both divine, and humane, reduce all Order, Government, and Society, to the first Chaos of Violence, and Civill warre.†   (source)
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