Sentence examples for As mercifully from inspiring English sources

MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y., Dec. 26, 2011 To the Editor: Seamus McGraw mounts all the standard defenses: I am feeding my family; there are too many deer; I kill as mercifully as possible.

Death came to her an hour later, while my brother was on the phone to me in California — almost as mercifully as it had come to my paternal grandfather.

All the talk of blocking Donald Trump's nomination came to naught, as, mercifully, did fears of violent protest. .

And yet these ancient nomads chose to think about the welfare of animals, to feel empathy for the taking of their lives for food, and to find ways to do so as mercifully as they could.

I keep urging the Wheelers to leave, get out before it's too late, as, mercifully, we did.

By some measures, the provisional death toll – 48 for the US as a whole, with 18 fatalities in New York State – had to be classified as mercifully low.

But by American standards, this qualifies as a mercifully calm week.

Debate audiences: With presidential debate season in full swing as we (mercifully) head into the home stretch of this election, it's time to remove the most volatile actors out of the equation: ourselves.

As 2008 mercifully ends, we're left to ponder a year in which the real and the surreal were pretty much indistinguishable, where insanity actually became tedium, and where every silver lining was eclipsed by a brand new dark cloud.

3am: Men's triathlon: Live action again, mercifully, as the men's triathlon gets started.

Many of the deadliest pathogens, such as E. coli and listeria, are comparatively rare; many of the most widespread, such as norovirus, are mercifully mild.