6 sentences with 'mercy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mercy and other words derived from it.
• « It is not far off to say that the most important duty of the Mesopotamian priests was to ask the gods for mercy. »
• « Entire cultures were destroyed, empires fell, and the survivors found themselves at the mercy of conquistadors whose highest priorities were the extraction of mineral wealth and the exploitation of labour. »
• « One of the main factors contributing to the loyalty of German civilians to the Nazi regime to the bitter end was the simple and pragmatic understanding that if Germany lost it would be at the mercy of the Soviet Union, a country that the German army had set out to destroy utterly. For the Soviets, of course, only fanatical resistance to German aggression could save their nation and their lives. »
• « Every unified theory - the creation equation - condemns the universe to death in different ways, and none of them show it any mercy. »
• « Southerners provided slaves with care from birth to death, he claimed; this offered a stark contrast to Northern wage slavery, where workers were at the mercy of economic forces beyond their control. Fitzhugh's ideas exemplified Southern notions of paternalism. »