Mercy in example sentence

MacAskill, in a statement to the Scottish Parliament defending his decision, refrained from quoting from the best-known speech on mercy in the English language – that of Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice – but Portia’s words would have fitted the core of his statement.

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I have never been arrested, never spent a night in jail, never had a loved one thrown into the back of a squad car or behind bars, or be at the mercy of a scary, confusing system that at best sees them with indifference, and at worst as monstrous.

Your car doesn't come to you in pieces with an extra 10 percent just in case, to be assembled at the mercy of the elements.

My life, at the mercy of good design and bad design.

Maybe what was missing was not the women only, but the feminine values of compassion, mercy and inclusion.

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