amnesty provision

collocation in English

meaningsofamnestyandprovision

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amnesty
noun
uk
/ˈæm.nə.sti/us
/ˈæm.nə.sti/
a decision by a government that allows political prisoners to ...
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provision
noun
uk
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/us
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/
the act of ...
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(Definition ofamnestyandprovisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Qarase said that many people were opposed to the legislation because they misunderstood how its amnesty provisions would function.
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Theamnestyprovisionwill apply to both those groups until the end of next year.
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Theamnestyprovisionensures that anyone engaged in an act of decommissioning is not exposed to prosecution.
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It is necessary because, without such anamnestyprovision, actual decommissioning could never occur.
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The military proved more resilient than expected, however, protagonising rebellions in the face of human rights prosecutions and achieving the introduction of amnesty provisions and pardons in 1986 and 1987.
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That would not have been possible without these amnesty provisions.
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Equally, there can be no doubt that the amnesty provisions contained in the order will play a fundamental part in making the decommissioning possible.
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It is in relation to what he said about the wide-ranging amnesty provisions.
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We shall wish to discuss the amnesty provisions.
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We should ensure that those crimes are excluded from amnesty provisions.
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Renewal of the amnesty provisions is essential to that goal.
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The people of his district agreed that the bill was good, he said, but were less positive about the amnesty provisions.
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Others have given qualified approval, endorsing the bill's attempts to promote reconciliation but opposing its amnesty provisions.
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Only later, through the media, did they learn about its amnesty provisions.
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They, too, mostly supported the bill's objective of reconciliation, but opposed its amnesty provisions, he said.
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Controversy also arose when each candidate accused the other of supporting the amnesty provisions in a 1986 immigration bill, although both candidates deny ever supporting those provisions.
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