Reprieve

Sami was granted a reprieve.

Tom has been granted a reprieve.

We've been granted only a temporary reprieve.

The governor issued a reprieve hours before Tom was set to be executed by lethal injection.

I'm happy to hear that grandma is doing better, even though the doctors say it's just reprieve.

The chestnut tree that gave Anne Frank hope as she lived in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II has got a last-minute reprieve. A Dutch judge has ruled the tree, which was to be cut down Wednesday, will remain, as city officials try to come up with alternatives.

Company […] may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.

At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services. It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.

The prisoner was saved from execution; the governor had requested a reprieve.

Yet it was not easy, on the balance of play, to be convinced by Pellegrini and his defeated players that the reprieve might somehow be a defining moment over the two legs.