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"I do not think he deserves a respite," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

There’s little respite to be found in the Chargers’ upcoming games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

This gives the chancellor a few months of respite on the electoral front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

"I've been trying to get some overnight respite as I want to be a mum to my girls as well as Zac," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

And they had done this despite the city, which was supposed to be a respite, revealing itself to simply be a more intricate specimen of plunder.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

There were brief respites, but things seldom got easier: “The wind whipped up at noon and sleet came smacking down,” Mr. Tesson recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Even for malaria the respites may be transient.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 2023

Taking turns tossing and catching the ball furnishes the game with built-in respites, which give the participants a chance to reflect on past choices and prepare for future ones.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Bad Bunny also recently said that he takes much-needed respites from social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

The only respites were when Mark, the utility boy, came in.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

He has not been forgiven; he has only been respited.

From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

He was afterwards taken prisoner at Preston, impeached before the House of Peers in 1716, and sentenced to be executed as a traitor, and his estate forfeited; but eventually he was respited and pardoned.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Mrs. Thomson

In vain was the power of his dynasty overthrown by the Crusaders; in vain do the Seljukians disappear from the annals of the world; in vain is Constantinople respited; in vain is Europe saved.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman

Then Dorothy Thornton felt that the sand was running low in the hour glass of respited happiness and that the day when her husband must face his issue was terribly near.

From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey

He respited the execution of the prisoners; and on the case being reported to the king in council, the Bishop of Chester, Dr. Bridgman, was required to investigate the circumstances.

From Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Thomas Potts

By this simple sentence a flood of light is thrown on the fact of respiting him alone amongst the four men admittedly concerned in the rescue.

From The Dock and the Scaffold by Unknown

The respiting of the burning of the hand till the king's pardon could be obtained was not to put him in a worse condition than he would have been in had he been actually burnt.

From State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social by Various

Then they made a last attempt in his favour, and voted for respiting the execution.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

"There is one strange fact about this," said the governor of the prison to Harkaway, "and that is, that one of the prisoners has taken the liberty of respiting himself."

From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Bracebridge Hemyng

Then they made a last attempt in his favor, and voted for respiting the execution.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay