Sentence examples for Show forgiveness from inspiring English sources

It can be a refusal to show forgiveness, even symbolically, for the enormities a company perpetrated.

For his part, Mr. Sarkozy called for Libyans to show forgiveness to their internal adversaries and not resort to vengeance and score-settling as the conflict winds down, echoing a theme expressed by the leaders of the Transitional National Council.

But because this is Vern we're supposed to say, 'Hey, he must not have been in his right mind to do this and we must show forgiveness.' Well, when we were up nights worrying about our barns, Vernon Shultis wasn't worried about us".

If things seem to jar a little, blame Tolstoy, because he's just a bit too didactic sometimes: "See how important it is to believe in God and show forgiveness to your fellow man!" And blame the BBC budgets for not stretching to an extra couple of hours to cover this up a bit better.

The point of supererogatory action lies, accordingly, in the good will of the agent, in his altruistic intention, in his choice to exercise generosity or to show forgiveness, to sacrifice himself or to do a little uncalled favor, rather than strictly adhering to his duty.

For that reason it is dubious whether governments, or other institutions like the courts, can show forgiveness since their function is to do justice and promote the good according to the law rather than break the rules from an altruistic intention.

That showed forgiveness on their part because Decoupage had been a beaten favourite at the previous Festival, when second at 100 30 for the County Hurdle.

Although the history of people showing forgiveness is not new, many activists say a recent incident was a turning point in significantly increasing such pardons last year: in April 2014, an Iranian mother spared the life of a young man who had killed her son at last minute in an extraordinary episode that drew the world's attention and also appeared on the front page of this newspaper.

Rather than the morally justified hostility and resentment that he was entitled to express, he shows forgiveness.

Furthermore, it fails to distinguish between the common appeals to excuses from obligatory action based on the particular difficulty or risk involved in its performance and the general exemption from supererogatory action that is sometimes easy and possible for everybody (like doing a small favor or showing forgiveness).

Perhaps the greatest source for personal answers to these questions rests with my birthplace's Queen Liliʻuokalani - the last reigning monarch of Hawaiʻi, who against all odds showed forgiveness in her many compositions after being illegally overthrown by non-native, American and European businessmen aided by the U.S. Marines.