Sentence examples for wanted to atone from inspiring English sources

For the project the Mural Arts Program brought together the victims of crime, their advocates, and inmates from nearby Graterford prison, who wanted to atone for their crimes.

It's said he had the chapel built, next to his family palazzo, because he wanted to atone for the sins of his father, Reginaldo degli Scrovegni, apparently an appalling swindler whom Dante described in the seventh circle of hell.

Asked why he spends so much time pursuing the past -- particularly when opinion polls show that most Czechs believe the 1945 expulsion was justified -- Mr. Mateiciuc said he wanted to atone for a historical wrong, if only in a small way.

"And David would certainly have wanted to atone in terms of bringing fresh quality into the club".

He said he'd wanted to atone, and he knew he'd score, he said, "right when the kick was going off.

The televised senate proceedings also featured dramatic testimony from an arrested druglord, Kerwin Espinosa, who wanted to atone for the death of his father by testifying against corrupt officials, and from the charismatic National Chief of Police.

Some want to atone for past mistakes.

"Does the heart want to atone?

I want to atone for all the bad I have done".

In fact, it wants to atone for that 50-point debacle vs. the Redskins last season.

He said if someone who does wrong sincerely wants to atone, we have to welcome this.