"All the defendants have requested forgiveness under interrogation," he begins.
He said he was a good member of the NBA and requested forgiveness.
The disclosure also led to a public apology by Belgian bishops to the country's Catholic community that acknowledged the failure to respond adequately to the abuses and that requested forgiveness.
While Germany has expressed remorse for Hitler's crimes in countless forms since World War II -- perhaps most memorably in Willy Brandt's unscripted genuflection at the Warsaw Ghetto -- its president had not previously requested forgiveness in this way.
"I wish to request forgiveness from the citizens of the Republic of Croatia," and particularly those of Dubrovnik, "for all the suffering and material losses inflicted during these tragic events by Montenegrins in the ranks of the Yugoslav Army," President Milo Djukanovic told reporters after talks with the Croatian president, Stipe Mesic.
And if you have wronged other people (as opposed to God), repentance requires that you personally approach those you've wronged to earnestly request forgiveness, or the Yom Kippur holiday is powerless to grant atonement on behalf of God.
We could tell her to eat a dick three times in a row (as we did when she requested forgiveness for not agreeing that this is the most over-the-top songs of all time), and God still marks it down on the "You're Forgiven" side of his tally sheet.
In just the past few months, more than 4,100 borrowers have submitted claims to the Education Department requesting debt forgiveness by asserting they were duped into taking out federal student loans, according to Smith's report.
If that's the case, Williams will need to exercise the 4th R which is to Request Forgiveness.
One hopeful point to keep in mind: If Williams demonstrates a solid track record of Remorse, Restitution and Rehabilitation, and then Requests Forgiveness and he is not forgiven, it is not Williams that is unforgivable.
