Sentence examples for extend mercy from inspiring English sources

My wife tells me the difference is that, in my late stories, I find it easier to forgive my characters, that I extend mercy where I used to dispense hard justice.

"Nevertheless, we do so, and we invite to extend mercy.

"Nevertheless, we do so and we invite my lord to extend mercy.

They will not extend mercy to any communities in Syria that continue to assume a neutral stance toward the uprising.

They're not even willing to extend mercy to the victims of their recklessness - the long-term unemployed who they would apparently rather see discarded than rescued.

"The scriptures and Christian tradition call for people to be treated decently and mercifully, but there's also the distinction between the obligations of the civil state, which is of course to uphold order and law, and the church, which is of course to extend mercy and compassion to all people".

When on God's green earth can you afford to question anyone who is extending mercy to your child?

The state justices said the jurors may have been confused about whether they had to agree on a single reason for extending mercy to the killers. .

For example, in the book of Jonah God extends mercy to the horrid superpower Assyrians even though in the book of Nahum they are destroyed by God and all who hear of it will cheer.

Eliza makes a wager with the supreme being: if, within two weeks, she can resolve one ticket from the heap of "impossible" prayers, God will extend some mercy.

I think in this way by extending divine mercy to the apparently unredeemable my life as a Catholic agnostic shapes my fiction.