Sentence examples for simple mercy from inspiring English sources

It was a way to short-circuit permissiveness — not to mention decency, common sense, and simple mercy — by insisting that an offense that is no worse, really, than being caught with a Martini in a speakeasy should be met with enough prison time to ruin a life.

It seems simple enough: do mercy, get mercy.

Here was a dignified man making a simple appeal for mercy, begging that the law allow him to die in peace, supported by his family.

The simple process of facing the mercy of the Messiah without pretense, that we might receive our own sight and then be able to see the suffering around us.

I'm in an ambulance at Fifth and Broadway taking a patient in cardiac arrest to St. John's Mercy, a very, very simple model.

The restrictionist message is brutally simple — that illegal immigrants deserve no rights, mercy or hope.

In LMICs, broadening access to simple devices such as the Broselow or Mercy TAPE could facilitate significant improvements in the reliability of bodyweight-based dosing for children.

While nothing about Ms. Minaj's music is as simple as it may seem, some listeners took "Mercy" (which started appearing online around Sept. 3) at face value.

But Short latched onto Andrea Masi's kick through to register Wasps' first try of the match, before Masi should then have scored himself but dropped a simple pass with the try-line at his mercy.

Yes, of course we were disappointed," said Richard Ayre. "In the absence of a single, clear, simple labelling system, consumers really are at the mercy of the marketing department," he added.

What must it be like to be always at the mercy of others, even for the simplest things?