Sample Sentences for
clemency
(editor-reviewed)

clemency as in:  the judge showed clemency

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    Coming now to the other qualities mentioned above, I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel.  (source)
    clement = lenient (kindness or mercy) toward offenders
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    In sleep he looked easy, emptied of all striving, like someone granted a clemency.†  (source)
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    Yet even if I pleaded for clemency on behalf of the conquered kingdoms, he wouldn't listen.†  (source)
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    The one thing Putnam cannot do at this point is show clemency.†  (source)
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    Specifically, he believed in the inevitable influence of clement and inclement weathers.†  (source)
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    Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency, and this was especially true in Chris's case.†  (source)
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    Auntie An-mei must have bought this on Clement Street.†  (source)
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    The request for clemency was denied.†  (source)
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    This is Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School.†  (source)
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    He considered that too to be Grace's fault — in his eyes, she'd cornered the clemency market — and as I read it, he then wanted to be revenged.†  (source)
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    When I was invited to sing my song "Friends" at the memorial service in Clement Park, I really wondered to myself, "What can I offer this hurting community?"†  (source)
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    Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.†  (source)
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    The most recent riot had been three days of burning, shooting and beatings in January 1989, after Miami police officer William Lozano shot Clement Lloyd, twenty-three, an unarmed black man who was driving toward the officer on a motorcycle.†  (source)
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