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During his trial at the Old Bailey, Maclaine confessed his crimes with exaggerated penitence.
UBS will need more than a show of penitence to regain the initiative.
Egypt has reduced its prison population of jihadist suspects from an estimated 20,000 in the late 1990s to below 5,000 today.Yet some people doubt the effectiveness of either re-education or high-profile penitence in reducing the jihadist urge.
That might offer a convenient way out for foreign governments anxious to see any sign of official penitence.
"I saw none of the penitence, none of the compromise that many ultra-liberal analysts saw," Mr Schmidt says.In this section A derailment coming Biting the hand that feeds you A chance or a trap?
This week it hosted several million Shia pilgrims without serious incident.Many of the visitors had walked from the far corners of Iraq, a traditional expression of penitence for the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet's grandson at the hands of a cruel Sunni caliph.
They performed constant self-sacrifice in the form of bloodletting as penitence (by passing barbed cords through the tongue and ears).
Avinu Malkenu, (Hebrew: "Our Father, Our King"), the opening words of each verse of a Jewish litany of supplication that is recited in synagogues with special devotion during the Ten Days of Penitence (except on the sabbath), which mark the beginning of the new religious year.
The mother of Didier of Cahors addressed to her son letters of edification on the fear of God, on the horror of vice, and on penitence.
"Greetings to one whose penitence is sheer delusion!… What about a sensuous virgin-girl with wonderful breasts?"….
Pennsylvania system, penal method based on the principle that solitary confinement fosters penitence and encourages reformation.
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