Mercy
in sentence
449 examples of Mercy in a sentence
The movie is about the Karl "The Butcher," an unrelenting mass murderer who shows no
mercy
to his victims.
In this film all characters are mere debris at the
mercy
of a capitalist tide.
It talks of war without begging for kindness,
mercy
or pity.
There is something conspiratorial about this animus, a notion that the common man is at the
mercy
of a shadowy network of string-pullers that rules the world.
Without any significant say in how they were to be governed, Hong Kong’s citizens would be at the
mercy
of China’s leaders.
Trump understands one thing well: Germany and the eurozone are at his mercy, owing to their increasing dependence on large net exports to the US and the rest of the world.
He reveled in his law-breaking, has shown no remorse for it, has never signaled an understanding of the grace of
mercy.
Syria’s seemingly endless civil war, waged without regard for international law, has left countless civilians at fate’s
mercy.
In other words, unless European countries band together, we will be at the
mercy
of others’ decisions in the future.
Stimson warned that “the world in its present state of moral advancement compared with its technical development would be eventually at the
mercy
of such a weapon.
Seeing their options for passage narrowing, they put themselves at the
mercy
of unscrupulous smugglers, often at enormous expense.
But their massive market power leaves consumers at their
mercy
in every sphere, from manufacturing to financial services to digital technologies.
Francis, by contrast, appears to have been referring to factory-farmed animals when he spoke, in The Joy of the Gospel, of “weak and defenseless beings who are frequently at the
mercy
of economic interests or indiscriminate exploitation.”
So, rather than being at the
mercy
of global financial flows, we must harness finance as a tool for achieving our goals.
Nonetheless, a bone marrow transplant unit, financed largely by Japan, had just opened in the same hospital – placing the most vulnerable patients at the
mercy
of deadly infections.
But they risk ending up with debt/GDP ratios north of 100%, which would leave them at the
mercy
of financial markets should sentiment turn against them.
He is a conservative who loves freedom and a "peacemonger" who condemns injustice, but who reminds us that
mercy
is more important than justice.
Not only does that explain the inability of the British intellegentsia to reach consensus about the issue; it also leaves the Brexit question at the
mercy
of last-minute developments.
It would be a bitter travesty to abandon the Kurds to the
mercy
of the Iraqi or Turkish governments in their time of need.
Tocqueville saw this strictly ordered world being replaced by democracy and formal social equality, in which everyone would be equally free, but would also be equally at the
mercy
of society.
As for religion, every religion embodies certain verities that are applicable to all mankind - justice, truth, mercy, compassion - and men often allow God to be blamed for their own sins.
“To those seeing and hearing him, the ruler should appear to be all mercy, all faithfulness, all integrity, all humanity, and all religion.
If we want the “peace on earth and
mercy
mild” promised in our Christmas carols, we will need to work much harder and more confidently to secure them.
And they will leave the new Iraqi government at the
mercy
of forces that would eventually pull the country apart.
They cram into leaky rafts and place themselves at the
mercy
of the waves, and sleep on the floors of railroad stations.
Whatever traditional benefit remains would not be enough to live on; retirees would be at the
mercy
of the markets for the bulk of their income.
In that opera, a prostitute named Su San, after being sentenced to death, pleads for
mercy
to unconcerned passersby as she is marched down the main roads of Hongdong County in shackles.
Moreover, this system subjects the world economy to cycles of confidence in the US dollar, while placing the world economy at the
mercy
of a national authority – one that often makes decisions with scant regard for their international implications.
If trade policies are largely shaped by political lobbying, wouldn’t international trade negotiations similarly be at the
mercy
of those same lobbies?
Without accurate information, a country’s citizens are at the
mercy
of whatever potentially corrupt group happens to be controlling public agencies and making and enforcing the law.
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