parole
Example Sentences
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Most Afghan nationals arriving on the OAW programme were given permission to stay in the country for two years under a process known as "parole".
From BBC
He was one of around 86,000 Afghans who assisted U.S. forces or were otherwise at-risk and brought into the country on a temporary status known as “humanitarian parole.”
If convicted of all the charges, the men face the possibility of life without parole.
From Los Angeles Times
"This is an ongoing sentence from which I can never be paroled."
From Barron's
She was sentenced to death by an American military tribunal, but her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment before she was released on parole in April 1957.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
