Citations:impunity
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English citations of impunity
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- 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- With the mention of Derbyshire there were many ideas connected. It was impossible for her to see the word without thinking of Pemberley and its owner. "But surely," said she, "I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me."
- 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
- I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 495:
- The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity.
- 2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, pages 44–45:
- [...] and the rebuilding of Birmingham New Street with its Taurus Bar ("where one for the road - the railroad - can be taken with impunity").
- 2022 August 30, Donald Kirk, “Could China invade South Korea after Taiwan?”, in The Hill[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2022[2]:
- If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide to recover Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland in 1949.