Sentence examples for Expiate from inspiring English sources

How easy it is to expiate that guilt vicariously, by demonising Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians rather than to make amends to the victims of its own racism and xenophobia.Stuart KaufmanSan FranciscoSicilian defenceSIR – There are problems in Sicily that slow down its economy's recovery, but your article does not truly reflect the situation ("The EU's third-world island", May 4th).

Planning to reveal their relationship when the time is right, he intends to confront the professor with the pro-Nazi articles he wrote in his youth.We get summaries of the relativist legal philosophies that Peter's urbane, charismatic father promotes, which subtly expiate his shady past.

Parashurama is the traditional founder of Malabar and is said to have bestowed land there on members of the priestly class whom he brought down from the north in order to expiate his slaughter of the Kshatriyas.

The Roman Catholic notion of purgatory sought to resolve the latter problem; regulated torture would expiate some of the sins of those not totally beyond redemption.

Having felt guilty that the barriers of race and caste had prevented his mingling with the Burmese, he thought he could expiate some of his guilt by immersing himself in the life of the poor and outcast people of Europe.

He collected money and sent it to Jerusalem to expiate their sins, acting thereby "very well and honorably, taking account of the resurrection.

The purpose of criminal sanctions was to make the offender give retribution for harm done and expiate his moral guilt; punishment was to be meted out in proportion to the guilt of the accused.

The stories recounted from European and Eastern mythology and the portraits of exotic animals and landscapes, though superficially scientific in their blending of scholarly documentation and objective narrative manner, all distill the same sense of revolt against a destiny that binds mankind to expiate crimes it is fated to commit.

Their evil deeds are instantly expiated and the formalities of judgment are waived; they enter the Garden immediately.

The ten hells of Chinese Buddhist eschatology may be considered as purgatories, for in them the dead expiated their sins before being incarnated once more in this world.

In Pillars of Society (1877), The Wild Duck (published 1884), Rosmersholm (published 1886), and The Master Builder (published 1892), for example, one sacrifice is expiated by another.