exemption from punishment

We strongly oppose any move to grant these people any kind of general exemption from punishment.

Impunity means exemption from punishment or loss.

The advantage of speaking with exemption from punishment has made the fool attractive in the literary imagination, for example, the fool in Shakespeare's King Lear.

Medical amnesty at the university level most often pertains to exemption from punishment for an intoxicated or impaired underage student if medical assistance is called to help him or her in an emergency situation.

With General Pinochet still in command of Chile's Army, few courts have dared challenge the exemption from punishment he insisted on for accepting civilian rule, restored last year after 17 years of military dictatorship.

Residence permits in the context of victim protection and exemption from punishment if someone is caught stealing will be all the more of an incentive for someone to place themselves in the hands of the mafia.

Taking a relativistic attitude to the violation of humanitarian and international law and granting the perpetrators exemption from punishment will only lead to new suicide attacks and wars, and the spiral of violence will continue.

For example, the system of exemption of eight categories or persons from criminal prosecution (ba yi) and the system of exemption from punishment by giving up official positions (guandang) are formally recognised legal device.

Stating one argument against an amnesty, the letter said, "Amnesty International believes that impunity - literally the exemption from punishment - is one of the main contributing factors to continuing cycles of human rights violations worldwide."

While a successful prosecution in the Letelier-Moffitt case would not establish accountability for the 2,000-plus victims of political killings and disappearances, it would deny exemption from punishment for two men who bear considerable responsibility for much of that violence.

Widely supported though it has been, a statement denouncing intimidation, violence, torture, exemption from punishment and economic stagnation will do nothing to solve the problem; instead, it should be a starting point to determine how we in Europe can best deal with that unfortunate country in future.

However, I have given my word to pardon; and it shall not be said that Henry the Eighth, who calls himself God's vicegerent, has ever broken his word; nor even that he has punished those whom he has assured of exemption from punishment.

Instead of placing the countries of origin under obligation with regard to the destruction of mafia structures and providing victims with local help and the opportunity for training and, therefore, a future in their own country, the EU is moving in the direction of residence permits and exemption from punishment for victims of human trafficking.