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The fiddler has found herself with a ban that will rule her out of the next four seasons, leaving her free, perhaps mercifully , to concentrate on the Four Seasons.
She has fled class many many times; mercifully never to throw herself off anything, anywhere.
"I think that as a moderately intelligent women who has a slight public platform (and also as someone who had just run for a train, in the hail, in a mercifully flat pair of shoes) I owe it to others to stand up to this nonsense and I'm delighted that the awesome Twitter community was with me".
The shortest format brings an influx of overseas stars to glam up the nights under lights – though the marketing men mercifully stop short of the full on "cricketainment" of Australia's Big Bash League and India's IPL.
The advert in question was for butter and featured both men sporting wide grins, cream dressing gowns and their trademark (but mercifully saliva free) curly hairstyles while seated at the breakfast table.
The solar-concentrator option has mercifully retained the religious relevance of the real estate goldmine of Doongerwadi.
When conversation mercifully turned to other topics, Diaz was equally sketchy on other aspects of the Coalition manifesto, including Direct Action, the "green army" and immigration – at which point a minder stepped in and ended the interview.
Mercifully , as the end of the week draws close, it seems we are nearer to unravelling perhaps its greatest mystery: just how out of his depth did Stephen Hawking feel at Barbara Windsor's 70th birthday party last Sunday?
Sat 10.30pm, StubHub Center Matt Hoffman, The Goat Parade, Chivas: The story of the week is that, come Saturday night, the 2013 season will mercifully be over.
That it is still with us, albeit at a lower level, is due to the failure of Osborne's strategy, which was to eliminate the deficit within this parliament – something, mercifully , he is nowhere near to achieving.
Mercifully for Fine Gael, the then Fine Gael prime minister, John Bruton, handed that money back.
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Mercifully functions primarily as an adverb, modifying verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to express a sense of relief or gratitude that something unpleasant was avoided or ended quickly. Ludwig's examples show it frequently modifying verbs to describe how an event unfolded favorably.
Expression frequency: Very common
