reprieve
இடை ஓய்வு
definition
verb
under the new regime, prisoners under sentence of death were reprieved
cancel or postpone the punishment of (someone, especially someone condemned to death).
noun
Official reprieves and pardons were not uncommon, and some such acts of mercy were purposely announced only when the convicted stood on the scaffold and spectators had assembled.
a cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
example
he accepted the death sentence and refused to appeal for a 'reprieve'
This may be a welcome 'reprieve' , but taxpayers and their advisors should still consider the proposed rules when evaluating investments.
I actually laughed out loud during the scene, partly as a temporary 'reprieve' from the tension, partly out of sheer admiration for Anderson's gifts.
The theater becomes a site of self-forgetfulness for audiences who experience a 'reprieve' from disciplines associated with memory.
The victim's fellow prisoners may bang the hot water pipes in sympathy but they also bet their Sunday bacon on whether or not he'll get a 'reprieve' .
The bank won a 'reprieve' by coming back to us with an offer we couldn't refuse.
The exchange between the mayor, Sheriff Hartwell and him when he first appears with the 'reprieve' from the governor is simply priceless.
The necessary delays in explaining the new evidence, the mechanics of ordering a 'reprieve' and so on are then all simply omitted.
However, the foreign earnings deduction, which is due to expire at the end of this month did not receive a 'reprieve' .
a mother who faced eviction has been given a 'reprieve'
Instead, after a 'reprieve' in 1833, the central government engaged in more and more trade protectionism and centralized tyranny, which helped lead to war.
We had a brief 'reprieve' earlier this week from the oppressive heat of the Washington summer, but the last couple days have been dangerously hot.
Ibrahim recently received a 'reprieve' when an Egyptian court released him and ordered a retrial - after a strong protest from the Bush Administration.
Therefore, what they all need is a temporary 'reprieve' , a carefully engineered environment of apparent dollar strength that will allow them to quietly unload what they could never openly propose to sell.
Worse, the 'reprieve' came too late for the Glazers.
a mother who faced eviction has been given a 'reprieve'
An increased supply of rental accommodation has resulted in a welcome 'reprieve' from spiralling rents for tenants around the country, and particularly in Dublin.
Those who cannot afford to buy bonds, or who prefer to invest in productive endeavors, must pay in future taxes for the 'reprieve' of not being taxed in the present.
Another possible outcome is that global uncertainty could give the US dollar a 'reprieve' from its recent slide.
I once spent hours sketching, a wonderful 'reprieve' from the endless flow of words my work entails.
But Allah 'reprieves' no soul when its term expires and Allah has knowledge of all your actions.
When the Home Secretary 'reprieved' Edmunds's death sentence on ground of insanity many believed he based this decision on her gender and class.
In 1543 he was condemned to be burnt as a heretic for his adherence to Calvinism, but he was 'reprieved' by Henry VIII and on his release from prison returned to St George's.
That the Home Secretary 'reprieved' Edmunds on ground of insanity rather than simply commuting her death sentence to a life term (the far more common response to a death sentence) is intriguing.
An examination of the role of the Home Office in 'reprieving' condemned prisoners can be found in R. Chadwick's Bureaucratic Mercy: The Home Office and the Treatment of Capital Cases in Victorian Britain.
The conspirators, a group of teachers and lawyers led by an educational theorist called Picornell, were condemned to death but 'reprieved' on French insistence when peace was concluded.
Despite these 'reprieves' , the style of the show is somehow off, the music awkward, the direction formless.
They laughed like men 'reprieved' , and when the bottle of whisky was finished Staten gripping it by the neck flung it far out to sea.
In the corner was a chipped jug, and on the walls were carvings in the stone, names, crude drawings of gladiators, in their armour, tallies of battles won, of 'reprieves' granted.
From here it was basically downhill, though with occasional 'reprieves' .
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