Kindly priests would offer those who disclosed abuse absolution of their sins, as if they were the ones who had stains on their souls.
But sin, absolution and redemption?
If the Supreme Court rules against the general, the head on the block could in theory be the general's rather than Mr Sharif's.How eagerly will General Musharraf pursue approval from the public and absolution from the courts?
This, plus the severity of the punishment meted out to Mr Thaksin and his party, and the absolution of the Democrats, will only raise suspicions that the destruction of TRT was a pre-determined outcome.
This achievement was enough to win him absolution even from his most doctrinal foes.
But hours after Mr Alemán's absolution his Liberal Constitutional Party ended a filibuster in the National Assembly and voted to let the Sandinistas run the legislature's affairs.The next step, opponents fear, will be to get the assembly to vote for a constitutional reform that would allow Mr Ortega, like his friend Hugo Chávez in Venezuela (see article), to stand for re-election.
Mr Clinton, with job-approval ratings as high as Mr Reagan's and an economy as buoyant as Eisenhower's, may well feel he has an equal chance of absolution.
I have denied the charges and am confident of absolution.
CONFESSION, Swiss bankers are learning, may not bring absolution.
He knew that he would be denied absolution for whatever was to come, but it was still vitally important for him to explain to the pope the moral basis of his policy.In this section Coming quietly Snatch and grab Not yet Say watt?
Some were already seeking absolution for screwing up the economy.
