The community of Ferguson, [Missouri,] for example — it takes the whole community to try to fix and atone for a history of racism and discrimination that hasn't just played itself out in policing but also in resource allocation and education and employment.
Mr. Tadic, who is rapidly becoming a darling of the West, gave a vigorous accounting of all that his government had done to try to atone for the years of slaughter and warfare that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
Over the past three years, I have read books by famous people as varied as Lee Evans, Gok Wan, Stephanie Beacham, Simon Pegg and Pam Ayres – and compared with these two, each and every one of them should feel deep embarrassment and try somehow to atone for all those chopped-down trees.
Will we mumble apologies, lie low, try to atone?
This fall, Gap will try to atone for such missteps.
will face off in historic Cameron Indoor Stadium at 7 p.m., as the Tar Heels will try to atone for their collapse against the Blue Devils in Chapel Hill nearly one month ago, and win their fifth regular-season title in the last six years.
On Sunday, Big Brown will try to atone for a last-place finish in the Belmont Stakes, his only loss, against a field of six or seven in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J.
Simplistic little game with easy to follow rules, 1) I yell or throw my Estrogen cream at you. 2) I try to atone while making flimsy hormonal excuses.
He could have apologised and tried to atone long ago, devoting his life to reparation instead of earning fortunes from bloody dictators.
