The phrase "atone for this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing the need to make amends or seek forgiveness for a specific action or wrongdoing.
Example: "After realizing the impact of his actions, he felt compelled to atone for this mistake."
Alternatives: "make amends for this" or "seek forgiveness for this".
Three weeks' solid munching of witchetty grubs could not atone for this crime.
Becoming "the greatest senator of our time" could not atone for this.
The least that westerners can do to atone for this guilt is to visit Colombia and enjoy it.
There was no indication of how these elements were related.The only thing that is clear about this case is that, as part of a $7 billion deal, Citigroup agreed to pay $2.5 billion to atone for this ill-defined part of its wrongdoings.
Whereupon Maharaja Budhachandra, the 34-year-old incumbent's grandfather, established a democratically elected assembly with broad powers.That arrangement lasted barely a year before Budhachandra was taken captive by Indian officials and forced―at gunpoint, Manipuris say―to sign away his kingdom.To atone for this, he adopted a life of fasting and prayer, funded by a fat Indian stipend.
"When I raised my right hand unwittingly, I realised I had committed blasphemy and needed to atone for this," he told the BBC.
Though Germany repealed the law in 1994, it has never atoned for this "monstrous disgrace," as Germany'sGreen Party representatives Katja Keul and Volker Beck called §175 two weeks ago in a demand for reparations on behalf of the over fifty thousand men convicted under the provision.
Eventually, despite her protests, Bush threw a few dollar bills down but atoned for this by kissing her hand.
He didn't warm many hearts by confessing, in a piece written on 15 September, that on the morning in question, he had called Ellis and said: 'I'm glad I don't have a book coming out this month' (to which Ellis replied: 'I was just thinking the same thing'), but he atoned for this thought by working as a volunteer in a soup kitchen, distributing food and drink to the rescue workers.
90 min: There will be at least three more minutes for United to atone for throwing this match away through an undignified mixture of arrogance and conservatism, plus a weak limited midfield.
And one has to atone for the other?
