impunity
IPA: ɪmpjˈunɪti
noun
- (countable, law) Exemption from punishment.
- (uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
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Examples of "impunity" in Sentences
- There is impunity in the sports game.
- Impunity is a direct affront to the rule of law.
- The perpetrators of this crime should not have impunity.
- That doesn't give you the green light to act with impunity.
- This obviously took place in the pervasive atmosphere of impunity.
- Faqir and his entourage travel in the Bajaur region with impunity.
- As a result, the British could move troops to France with impunity.
- Impunity remained at the core of the country's human rights problems.
- They go back home and bring the experience of violence with impunity.
- Impunity Watch will be in the forefront creating awareness of these tragedies.
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