| 词汇 | example_english_merciful |
| 释义 | Examples of mercifulThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Not 'for the chamber full of diamonds ' would he gamble his enterprise against a single, merciful warning. The mere fact that there have been no accidents due to interference, whilst it is, of course, a merciful matter, is no test at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why are we more merciful to our four-footed friends than we are to humans? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In nearly all other countries that principle, that merciful and just principle, was accepted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously it must be merciful, it must be really efficient, it must be reasonably cheap and, most of all, it must be portable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me give just one example by way of a question: is public policy merciful to widows and orphans? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all hope that men are better, wiser, more merciful than they were 10,000 years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think women are more merciful than men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If somebody refuses to co-operate in keeping the highway clear, surely the merciful preventive provisions of this paragraph of subsection (3) should come into operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often a jury is seen to return some extraordinary merciful verdicts, out of fellow feeling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want to be as merciful with one another as we are to our own animals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To a humane man the inclination to administer the merciful dose is often almost—not infrequently quite—irresistible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The intentional taking of life, whether at the patient's request or from a merciful motive, is illegal in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, there may also come a time when we have to remind ourselves that sanctions are a merciful alternative to war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If, on the other hand, that slight and merciful sentence is not sufficient, it will be possible for the sheriff to impose a longer sentence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The other respect in which the provisions are much more merciful and flexible is that there is no automatic disqualification in any instance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one, however, objects to the fact that the charities have to pay tax on petrol for the cars they use for merciful purposes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As he was the fountain of justice, so he was just; and as the prerogative of mercy was his, so was he merciful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can we say that we must be merciful to these people? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I voted for the more merciful penalty in the first case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that from time to time opinion in the country does tend to become more merciful in this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are most merciful in their actions, and always give the defendant the benefit of the doubt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me say that we ought not to be too merciful if we are to treat with vested interests in a matter of this kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Considering that you were treated discourteously personally, you have shown an extremely merciful attitude. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must say, it was a merciful release for somebody. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is one merciful thing in what he said. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Rather than allow them to suffer the pangs of hunger and die of starvation, they put them to a merciful end. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By far the most rational and merciful way of increasing the incentive to work is to increase the level of child benefit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it so merciful that such a person should remain there for the rest of his days herded with other criminals whose minds are diseased? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The public know that he is efficient and that he is fair and merciful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would especially like to commend those who have delivered merciful speeches this afternoon and speeches in the great tradition of this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is another way in which the provisions are much more flexible and merciful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can only say that it will be a merciful thing if we can finish with it tonight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us hope that they are more merciful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The judges' role will be to be merciful in a proper case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to be particularly merciful to any form of property owner, but? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let them be merciful in this matter and let us get on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it should result in the expulsion from power of our present rulers, it would, indeed, be a merciful deliverance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us be merciful, in the circumstances, and welcome what we have got. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are those of a kindly and merciful disposition who cannot bear to see suffering prolonged. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The one was generous and merciful, and the other is not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a merciful procedure which deals with most of them in a relatively painless and not very explosive way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A judge of this country has been very merciful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In such cases the court will normally have been merciful and will very likely not have awarded any custodial sentences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, anyone listening casually to this debate would have thought that there were 1,001 reasons why this merciful release should not be conferred upon us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let him be merciful to those of us who have not that advantage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then came the merciful end of that era of uncertainty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People of all religions have been brought to it for treatment and it has tried in every merciful way to relieve their distress and suffering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Poisons other than cyanide may in future become available and prove to be more efficient, merciful or humane than cyanide gas or carbon monoxide. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only cyanide would be used until we were sure that something more merciful and equally effective or more effective and equally merciful, was available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should be more merciful in our analyses of these cases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should be some merciful consideration for the wounded? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am contesting the view put by the other side that hunting is the most merciful way of keeping the numbers down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my opinion they were treated in a very merciful fashion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As they have accommodation available it is right and proper that measures should be taken to bring them into full and effective and merciful operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One hopes that as the years go by the law will learn to accommodate people of this kind in a humane, merciful and understanding way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, it is almost merciful, and the hare should be grateful and welcome it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should be proclaiming to all people with incurable complaints that at the end of the road there waits a doctor with a merciful syringe. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps it is merciful in this life that anger is hard to sustain, because if it were not life would become very uncomfortable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no reason why the jury should not decide what is mercy and whether the person acts with a merciful intent or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Merciful escapes like this must run into hundreds or thousands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another point raised is that our capital punishment is, perhaps, more merciful and more scientific than the punishment adopted in some other countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One has to be merciful at this time, particularly as regards government. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All of us acknowledge that he is on the merciful wing of his party and inherited decisions made by others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that he will be merciful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He regarded that as a merciful deliverance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should like to know what action has been taken to release this woman who was imprisoned for a merciful action which she took at the time she was arrested. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I accept the merciful intention. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The attempt was to be merciful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they are to be given what is in truth a life sentence, is that not a far less merciful course than to put them to death? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have puzzled over this question and, although it may be a natural reaction to be merciful, there must be very strong reasons indeed against such a course. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do not let it be imagined for one moment that those who control the coalfields of foreign countries are going to be so merciful to us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let it be shown to them that while the law operated against them at the time, and justly, for the crime they committed, the law can also be merciful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The two main arguments for equality then were these: first, that if women got equality, they would be more merciful in the administration of the law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The time of respite is short, but there is still opportunity for the merciful to multiply their acts of humanity, and for the guilty to try to make amends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were probably a merciful release. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One false step could have plunged us into nuclear war, and we can only express our relief at the merciful deliverance and the statesmanship shown this last weekend. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we want to get rid of rabbits, the most merciful thing to do is to get rid of them as quickly as possible, and by every possible means. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A short while later it crawled out of the tent one night and was found dead beside it—a merciful release without any guilt felt by the parents, doctors or nurses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was merciful to me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In his case this was almost merciful, because he was already suffering from two other smoking-related diseases; namely, peripheral arterial disease of the leg and carcinoma of the lung. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Really we ought to be grateful to them that in their strength they are merciful, and, although having a majority of numbers, do not claim full control over their children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Merciful provision must be made for those who failed to do so, but the failures must never be better off than the successes. Can we stand in their shoes in order to be merciful? He added that he had been no more 'merciful' to himself than to the others. Once the satellite detects the crime, it is impossible to prevent punishment of the criminal, no matter how merciful the authorities might feel. We must put our trust in him to be merciful rather than in our own capacity to earn or cause his love for us. They still show signs of life; / with merciful hands / support them for a little while. He was always insistent that his policies should be implemented, not resisted, but was merciful to anyone who had suffered personal hardship as a result. Here there is a tendency in contract to do justice and in crime to be merciful. He is "merciful and mild" with a "mild forgiving eye" and a "mild radiance" on his "face benign". In this representation death adopts a rather benign persona, visiting only those who, aged and frail, welcome its approach as a merciful release from the trials of life. I believe that there is a limit to the extent to which the law can be merciful and also do its duty to society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has asked us specifically to take steps to ban—merciful word! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want to make an intervention of nauseating piety but merciful brevity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The jury took a merciful view, no doubt very properly, and acquitted them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The provision for maternity is one of the most magnificent and merciful provisions ever proposed in any scheme in any country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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