Sentence examples for ask pardon from inspiring English sources

Cardinal Georges Cottier, a Vatican theologian, said: "You can't ask pardon for deeds which aren't there".

We can but try, ask pardon for shortcomings, and there leave the matter.

I was obliged to stop and ask pardon and then attempt again while in this state and sang with all my being, yet still stumbling.

If we are in any way to blame for that separation, we humbly beg God's forgiveness and ask pardon too of our brethren who feel themselves to have been injured by us".

"We will recognize the errors of judgment that France and the international community made," said the palace spokesman, adding that the purpose of Mr. Sarkozy's visit was not to ask pardon but to open a new chapter in relations.

On the one hand, Danton – "Since when is man infallible and exempt from error?" – who could ask pardon on the scaffold for his role in establishing the institutions of the Terror.

They only asked pardon because of gacaca.

"Humbly asking pardon to mention it," he says, smiling and bowing.

In 2000, he asked pardon for the church's sins against Jews, women, heretics and minorities.

Echoing widespread concern from liberal as well as conservative theologians, the Bishop of Como, Alessandro Maggiolini, said: "In whose name, exactly, is the holy father asking pardon?

4 Nevertheless, Lucius went on, though reluctantly, after a number of peoples had sent ambassadors to the legates of the emperors asking pardon for the rebellion.