compassionate release

collocation in English

meaningsofcompassionateandrelease

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compassionate
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpæʃ.ən.ət/us
/kəmˈpæʃ.ən.ət/
feeling or showing sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others, and wanting to ...
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release
noun
uk
/rɪˈliːs/us
/rɪˈliːs/
an occasion when someone is allowed to leave ...
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(Definition ofcompassionateandreleasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcompassionate release

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When a compassionate posting is not possible a period ofcompassionatereleaseis often granted if the circumstances of the case justify it.
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Applications for compassionate leave or posting can be rejected by the applicant's commanding officer; applications forcompassionatereleaseonly by an air officer commanding.
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Broadly speaking, any grounds which would justify postponement of call-up justifycompassionaterelease.
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But the system ofcompassionatereleasestill stands.
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Applications forcompassionatereleasewill continue to be considered on their merits.
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I remember taking up in 1946 a case ofcompassionatereleaseon the grounds of grave hardship that had arisen through deterioration of home circumstances.
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The general policy now is not to make compassionate postings but to grantcompassionaterelease.
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Cases of hardship will, however, continue to be dealt with as at present oncompassionatereleasegrounds.
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We are ready to consider fullcompassionaterelease, but the evidence submitted was insufficient.
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This is a compassionate posting, not acompassionaterelease.
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An officer or rating is given immediatecompassionatereleasewhen release is the only remedy for serious hardship at home.
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The period of release of course will not count in his sentence, which will be suspended during the time of hiscompassionaterelease.
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No application for an extension ofcompassionatereleasehas been received from this soldier.
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This case has been investigated but it is not one wherecompassionatereleasewould be justified.
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Generally speaking,compassionatereleaseis found to provide a more satisfactory solution.
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There must be a vast number of anomalies and all enormous number of hard cases which no system ofcompassionatereleasecould possibly cover.
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Compassionate postings have been abolished butcompassionatereleasestill exists.
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What we can do, are doing, and will do, is to accept applications forcompassionatereleasewhere there is real hardship.
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There are a whole variety of grounds on which applications may be made forcompassionaterelease.
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Compassionatereleaseis invariably granted when there is exceptional hardship.
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