Sentence examples for absolution for from inspiring English sources

Some were already seeking absolution for screwing up the economy.

There is never absolution for losing in the N.F.L., and certainly not in New York.

But lo! — absolution for such profligate impatience rumbled past me during a walk.

"Mitchell felt," Sisman writes, "that David was seeking his absolution for what he had done".

On Saturday, he received absolution for whatever sins he had committed in life from the current archbishop, Gregory M. Aymond.

Nevertheless, Father Towle said, he granted Mr. Fornes absolution for his sins at the end of their meeting.

Innocent then placed an interdict on England in March 1208, prohibiting clergy from conducting religious services, with the exception of baptisms for the young, and confessions and absolutions for the dying.

Soon she turns up in Angwin's confessional to ask absolution not for sins committed but for those she may soon commit.

That is a fraudulent form of absolution, whether for an individual beating a murder rap or a people dodging the verdict of history.

The Contracts mode from Absolution returns for 2016's Hitman.

In 1980, when Ronald Reagan invoked the phrase in Philadelphia, Mississippi — where three civil-rights workers had been murdered, in 1964 — he was offering a kind of absolution, if not for racial violence then for the principle that had been used to justify it.