Sentence examples for was more merciful from inspiring English sources

Dictatorship, he added, "was more merciful".

That was more merciful than some lawyers I spoke to had expected.

Her parents told her that God was more merciful than she thought, and that people who did good would go to Heaven on the Day of Judgment, regardless of what they believed.

The Govt. argued it was more merciful in the long run to let Biafrans starve & be bombed into submission than to remain neutral, that the alternative was a tribal "Balkanization" of all Africa, & that the Ibo leaders were exaggerating & prolonging the misery of their people in order to nationalize & abscond wit the oil & consolidate their own leadership.

It would have been more merciful".

In some towns, the invaders were more merciful; they just killed the heretics.

Both women have encountered comments from clumsy outsiders that battlefield death would have been more merciful for everyone's future.

"We hope the new government will be more merciful than Saddam's regime," Zaineb Khalif, the eldest daughter, said.

In one match, Betz Addie outplayed Moran so thoroughly that Riggs asked her to be more merciful to make his floundering tour appear genuinely competitive.

She was there to look for two sons, ages 16 and 17. "The Israelis were more merciful than them," she said of Hamas.

Somerset ruled in loco parentis; the divinity of the crown resided in the boy king, but authority was exercised by an uncle who proved himself to be more merciful than tactful and more idealistic than practical.