Sentence examples for requests for forgiveness from inspiring English sources

WHEN Sri Bintang Pamungkas, one of Indonesia's most vocal opposition politicians, sent out greeting cards at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, he offered more than the traditional requests for forgiveness.

The South African TRC appeared to offer several examples of such a process, including spontaneous requests for forgiveness by perpetrators and offers of forgiveness by victims (Tutu 1999, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report 1998).

Today's requests for forgiveness are shaped by this model of the instantaneous and totalizing apology.

Obama has rejected at total of 3,976 requests for forgiveness.

Of course I wish you and yours continuing health and prosperity, but I don't forgive — can't say precisely what or whom I don't forgive and your note is not a request for forgiveness, so I'll just say that I'm much more confused than you are about who should be forgiving whom for what.

The rite is concluded with his obeisance to the senior monks and his request for forgiveness of his faults.

Was his heartfelt request for forgiveness the genuine result of weeks of reflection, a reconnection with Buddhism and hard-earned personal development achieved through therapy?

Re "Pope Asks Forgiveness for Errors of the Church Over 2,000 Years" (front page, March 13): I am not Roman Catholic, but I must, in every sense, applaud Pope John Paul II's request for forgiveness.

Mr. Weizman, who mentioned the Holocaust twice in his remarks, said he "appreciated" the pope's "request for forgiveness for deeds carried out in the past by representatives of the church against the Jewish people".

It was this request for forgiveness, more than anything else, that every Colombian I know had told me was the missing ingredient in the FARC's public pronouncements thus far.

[A senior Croatian official close to Mr. Mesic told Reuters on Friday that Mr. Djukanovic's request for forgiveness had been expected as a token of good will on the part of Montenegro's new democratic government and a precondition for improving relations with Croatia.] In March 1999, Montenegro reopened a border post with Croatia on the Adriatic coast, without awaiting approval from Belgrade.