用reprieve造句子，“reprieve”造句

I adjusted my pillows, hoping for a reprieve. No, I was going to be sick.

The justice minister, Clemente Mastella, had suggested that the national team's victory might earn the clubs a reprieve.

Officials say that in the first half of this year it overturned 15% of death sentences. But police-killers are unlikely candidates for reprieve.

In France, a New Year's Day reprieve allowed revelers their last legal drags in public places before the law took effect, the latest measure in a progressive crackdown that began 15 years ago.

So no signs of a reprieve from that quarter.

However, at the last minute, Mr Karmazin rustled up another deal, which grants his heavily indebted firm a reprieve.

The 3 and 1/2-year jail term of Huang's wife, Du Juan, was reduced to 3 years with a 3-year reprieve.

The cost of the reprieve was high, however.

But if more bad figures emerge a reprieve on new taxes may prove to be wise.

Instead they have been absorbed in serving Mr Berlusconi's narrow concerns-to gain a reprieve from the law, say, or to help a favoured interest.

In the end, doctors got a six-month reprieve; efforts are now under way in the Senate to extend that reprieve for a further two years.

She decided not to tell her own staff members that permission had been denied by senior McCain staff hours before the candidates took the stage, apparently in the hope of a last minute reprieve.

Mr Tusk won a reprieve, with a promise that the outs could join in a special "euro plus" group.

The family have won a temporary reprieve from eviction.

Practice has shown that most of the criminals who are given the death penalty with reprieve have had their punishment reduced to life imprisonment or a set term of imprisonment, after expiration of the two-year reprieve.