He also has the power to issue pardons and reprieves.
其亦可颁布特赧或缓刑令。
The method by which this suspension was secured was the granting of reprieves in exercise of the Royal Prerogative on the 'advice' of the Home Secretary.
The rain usually lasts for days on end, heavy and sometimes torrential, then reprieves for a couple of days, and then start all over again, makes you wonder where so much water comes from.