Sentence examples for merciful with from inspiring English sources

Jews are too accustomed to being merciful with our enemies.

He had liked many of the theories behind Prop 47: a system designed to be merciful, with more emphasis on treatment and fewer jail sentences.

Rapturous crowds, a reverential White House welcome, a trumpet fanfare, TV networks hanging on his every word: the United States isn't merciful with his desire to be humble.

Beyond administrative fixes, however, Francis has also pushed pastors and canon lawyers to be merciful with Catholics and to do everything they can so that the rules do not get in the way of grace and the sacraments.

With the series drawing to a merciful close with this weekend's release of Fifty Shades Freed, we're long overdue for an appreciation of Ms. Johnson and, frankly, what she's been through in her time playing the ridiculously-monikered "Anastasia Steele".

Aaron Smith brings this half to a merciful end with a kick to touch.

Now that the presidential race has come to a merciful end, with pundits and politicians picking through the results for meaningful bits, its time to examine the impact of lesser-known election players.

The end of this initially disturbing period is drawing to a merciful close with the implacable realization that no one is coming to my pity party.

She argues, for example, that the damage done to Hamburg and France by mercenaries and an increasingly commercial culture is far greater than the damage caused by the violence of the French revolution, writing that "the sword has been merciful, compared with the depredations made on human life by contractors, and by the swarm of locusts who have battened on the pestilence they spread abroad".

It was with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes that I read the headline "With Merciful Speed--Battle With AIDS Ends for Mullican" (Part I, Dec. 29).

Muslims begin everything they do, whether it's work, eating, writing, speaking or reading the Koran, with the words, "In the name of God, the merciful, the mercy-giver". How is one merciful, forgiving and compassionate but not loving?