Sentence examples for as atonement for from inspiring English sources
The price Japan might have paid, in 1951 or later, as atonement for its crimes would, presumably, have been high.
But the reality is that sponsorship is often intended not as atonement for misdeeds against nature, but as a distraction from them.
It had the feel of the apologetic tour of Army units that the World War II general George S. Patton Jr. was forced to make as atonement for his having slapped a soldier.
There is hardly a mention of the tens of billions of dollars-worth of low-interest loans and outright gifts that Japan has given China since the late 1970s loans that China has thought of as its due as a developing country, and which it does not care to see as atonement for the war.
The injury was a particularly cruel one for the 26-year-old Beckham, who had looked forward to this year's World Cup as atonement for a petulant foul of his that got him thrown out of a critical World Cup game against Argentina in 1998, a game that England ended up losing after overtime and penalty kicks.
On the run from American law enforcement and Russian gangsters as he frantically pursues a friend who might have set the entire chain of events in motion, Tyler broods on the questionable values that once defined his life and eventually comes to accept his current punishment as atonement for his past sins.
I don't think he was doing it as atonement or for any symbolic reason; rather, I had probably conveyed how bad I was at ironing, and he was doing it simply to be nice.
True, he went back to prison for a year in 1983, as atonement, it seems, for making what for the times were obscene amounts of money.Yet, in the money-crazy atmosphere a decade later, Mr Mou, who bears a striking resemblance to Mao Zedong, was being hailed by the Chinese government as China's richest entrepreneur, a symbol of all that was possible in the Brave New China.
Judaism was a religion of sacrifice, in which the proffered gifts were seen as an atonement for sin.
Most of the running costs of Jewish synagogues, schools, cemeteries, libraries, hospitals and nursing homes are met by the German state as an atonement for the past.
