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Example sentences for "general amnesty"

  • It had been usual in all ages, on the cessation of civil war, to grant a general amnesty.

  • After the victory Munis acted with great moderation and proclaimed a general amnesty.

  • On the day following the death of Amin Tahir caused Mamun to be proclaimed at Bagdad, and promised in his name a general amnesty.

  • Mahdi, therefore, could afford to be munificent, and in order to make his accession doubly welcome to his subjects, he began by granting a general amnesty to political prisoners.

  • Rivera at no time proclaimed a general amnesty; he denied the existence of the pact, and shot several leaders, who, relying on his promises, had returned to Manila.

  • This rebellion also extended to other provinces, but was quelled by the proclamation of a general amnesty.

  • Ferdinand's promise of a general amnesty, were afterwards treacherously murdered at his express command.

  • They came to terms with the senate and were granted a general amnesty.

  • Prince was arrested, they desired me to procure a general amnesty.

  • Besides, it promised a general amnesty to all who had borne arms in their favour, on condition only that M.

  • His first act was a general amnesty to the disaffected Neapolitans, who felt such confidence in his good faith, that they returned, with scarcely an exception, to their allegiance.

  • Your Majesty has declared by proclamation that you granted a general amnesty.

  • A general amnesty was to be granted for offences.

  • He would have us believe that the King, alarmed by finding how many persons had borne a part in the slaughter of Glencoe, thought it better to grant a general amnesty than to punish one massacre by another.

  • But of general amnesty he said not a word.

  • It might have been expected that James, after thus denouncing vengeance against large classes of his subjects, would at least have offered a general amnesty to the rest.

  • The Compounders were those who wished for a restoration, but for a restoration accompanied by a general amnesty, and by guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

  • The king had proclaimed a general amnesty on the 18th of October; and on the 21st he set out in state for Paris.

  • There was a general amnesty; and the Parliament preserved all its rights.

  • The allied and associated governments to give a general amnesty to all Russian political opponents, offenders, and prisoners, and to their own nationals who have been or may be prosecuted for giving help to Soviet Russia.

  • The soviet governments, the other Governments which have been set up on the territory of the former Russian Empire and Finland, to give a general amnesty to all political opponents, offenders, and prisoners.

  • We deem it our duty to the public, and especially to those whose delegates we are, to state the main reasons urged by us for a general amnesty, and to make some general remarks thereon, and also upon the reply.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general application; general arrangement; general councils; general effect; general emancipation; general health; general massacre; general merchandise; general names; general officer; general peace; general resemblance; general results; general society; general strike; general superintendent; general term; general views; generally believed; generally preferred; generally recognised; generally regarded; generally restricted; generally speaking; shown below; think very