Sentence examples for be so merciful from inspiring English sources

As noted above, it is unusual for the UK financial sector to be so merciful and short-termist: business as usual will no doubt be resumed before too long.

This time around, union leaders and workers aren't sure Congress will be so merciful in an era of budget squabbles, even if members themselves are guaranteed to get paid.

God, our father, is so merciful to us.

I accidentally roll Franklin over a cliff edge and respawn outside the nearest hospital – if only real life were so merciful.

The Poles were not so merciful six minutes later when Slawomir Peszko exposed Brady's defensive shortcomings.

When someone is so clearly a "lost cause," isn't it more merciful to step away rather than torture him further?

But Asian pirates are no longer so merciful.

This theme, imitatio Dei ("imitation of God"), is expressed succinctly in a commentary on Deuteronomy 11 22 that answers the question of how it is possible to walk "in all His ways": "As He is merciful and gracious, so be you merciful and gracious.

"As you can see," he says with perfect timing, "the working staff is none too stable to begin with, so please be merciful".

The author of The Management of Savagery treatise bluntly states that there is no room for "softness": "Softness" is the ingredient for failure: "our enemies will not be merciful to us, so it compels us to make them think one thousand times, before they dare attack us".

In one match, Betz Addie outplayed Moran so thoroughly that Riggs asked her to be more merciful to make his floundering tour appear genuinely competitive.