Example sentences for: clemency

How can you use “clemency” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Politicos disagree about which was clumsier: Bill's offer of clemency to cultivate Puerto Rican support for his wife's Senate campaign; or Hillary's rejection of that support in an attempt to cultivate her own identity.

  • Inside pieces at the WP and NYT report that Clinton national security officials including Madeleine Albright and the director of the CIA have recommended that Clinton deny clemency to convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.

  • (Juan Gonzalez in this morning's New York Daily News suggests that those being considered in the clemency bonanza were convicted not of bombings but of "lesser offenses.")

  • Twelve Puerto Rican nationalists accepted President Clinton's clemency offer.

  • Later in the program, James Carville spars with wife Mary Matalin over the clemency issue.


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