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Instead, Reagan showed forbearance. "State law is very explicit such a strike is illegal," the governor pointed out. Yet he treated the walkout as a case of unauthorized absence from work rather than an illegal concerted action against the state. Under California law, state employees were subject to termination after five consecutive days of unauthorized absence. (Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America by Joseph A. McCartin)

The term used in the relevant section of the Code is the Judge "may respite the execution of the sentence." In criminal law "respite" is defined to mean a temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, a delay, forbearance, or continuation of time. In Mishler v. The Commonwealth (1869), 62 Pa. 60, it was held to mean an interval, a reprieve, suspension of a capital sentence, a delay, forbearance. One standard dictionary defines it as a putting off of that which was appointed, and gives as synonymous a pause, interval, stop, cessation, delay, postponement, a stay. It if often said in popular language of one who is ill, and who has an interval of relief from suffering, that he has had a respite therefrom, meaning that his sufferings had ceased for a time. (Canadian criminal cases annotated)

Forbearance programs have recently become popular due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has left millions of Americans out of work or with reduced income... (CNBC)