Examples of mercy

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The prospect of being left to the tender mercies of vengeful colleagues was to cause many a loyalist to prefer corporate solidarity to promises of royal protection.
Indeed, the thirteenth century had been prosperous, and works of mercy had benefited.
Women rebel against impersonal principles of morality which, when rigorously applied, ignore individual pleas for sympathetic concessions, for mercy rather than justice.
All are equally weak, defenceless, and at our mercy but there is no question here of" the very same act".
He contrasts the young girl's pleas for mercy with the commanders' inhumane refusal to respond.
The general pardons which invariably accompanied royal successions underscored mercy as a prerogative of power.
There were, thus, numerous petitions for mercy, informing that the culprit had been wrongly identified.
He is therefore at the mercy of the demands of capital.
If such an act is to be exempt from punishment, it can only be by mercy or excuse, never by right or justification.
He is merely shown mercy, but the act is still prohibited, and he is still guilty.
Excused acts, by contrast, remain wrongful, and thus the grounds for exoneration must operate by way of mercy rather than right.
Citizens' wives and daughters were far more likely to be the subjects of petitions and pleas for mercy than were marginal women and outsiders.
The chorus to which this theme acts as a ground bass movingly celebrates the triumph of omnipotence and mercy, and these have undoubtedly triumphed.
We also know that the best programs are at the mercy of the latest software upgrade.
Moreover, life is at the mercy of seemingly chance happenings.
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