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• n  a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
• n  an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
• n  a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
• n  the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
• v  postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
• v  relieve temporarily

• Nearly three decades later Pu Yi and his clan finally enjoyed a reprieve.
• By granting a reprieve to a convicted murderer, Bush highlights the first part of "compassionate conservative.
• After a visit to Pope Pius XII, Cardinals Feltin of Paris, Lienart of Lille and Gerlier of Lyon announced a conditional reprieve for the French worker-priest program recently .

• respite
• suspension
• hiatus
• abatement

News & Articles

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• Soldier's wife gets reprieve from looming deportation order
  A Stockton woman who was about to be deported to the Philippines despite being married to a U.S. Army soldier and the mother of a 9-month-old baby was given a reprieve Wednesday by federal immigration officials. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced this afternoon that they were exercising prosecutorial discretion in the case of Karla Gaerlan, 28, canceling a formerly ...
  June 13, 2013 - KTVU
• Review: 'This Is the End' weirdly compelling
  The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with “This Is the End,” an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young stars and stars-by-affiliation jokingly imagine their own mortality.
  June 13, 2013 - Naples Daily News
• 'This Is the End' weirdly compelling
  LOS ANGELES - The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with "This Is the End," an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young stars and stars-by-affiliation jokingly imagine their own mortality. A sort-of "The Day of the Locust" centered on successful comic actors, rather than down-and-outers, facing a conflagration in ...
  June 13, 2013 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Quotes

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• Clive Stafford Smith in AFP
  Reprieve director Clive Stafford Smith said in a statement he had been in constant contact with Akmal's family, adding: "They are simply praying for a reprieve, fearing for the health of his mother, who is very frail."
• Wayne Swan in Ninemsn
  Today's Reserve decision is a welcome reprieve for working families who have been doing it tough after eight official rate rises in a row (in the past three years),Mr Swan said.
• Thad Cochran in The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
  This extension is a short-term reprieve from the uncertainties that were created when the National Flood Insurance Program was allowed to lapse,said Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. "My offices have heard from homeowners, businesses, lenders and...