The victim had written to the court asking for mercy to be shown to him.
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The airline companies always seem to be at the mercy of the fickle consumer and oil prices, so as a sector, they seem to get less attention from analysts and the public.
"I think it's important for the United States to be less at the mercy of foreign countries and their decision-making and politics, and more under our own control to address these problems, " Abraham said, two days after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut oil output by a million barrels a day.
When bills have to get shuffled around and you are living paycheck-to-paycheck, it is easy to be at the mercy of banks and other financial service providers and their fees.
The defense will have an opportunity to ask the jury for mercy and present evidence to support why Arias should not be executed.
He stayed with her, the mercy of her tranquillity seeming to be a miracle that was real, as it had been in the instant of death.
The sing-along choruses of "She's Already Gone" and "Mercy" echo Oasis, proving to be highly catchy, radio-ready rock, though the Shys stand as a grittier, gutsier version.
Democrats being Democrats wasted time disagreeing among themselves, and their charismatic new President allowed himself to be perceived as dealmaker at the mercy of Congress, not an agent for change.
Appeals should rather be made to their self-interest, sense of fairness, even to old-fashioned virtues like mercy and honour.
But, if Mr Rideau wants to be freed, he will still have to rely on judges and juries ready to temper horror with mercy and with the hope that the horror will not happen again.
If the fund ever needed to sell, it would be at the mercy of buyers because the marketplace for those shares would be illiquid.
The point is that neither investors nor Moody's believe that the biggest, most complex banks would be left by the Treasury to founder and die at the mercy of markets: the likes of HSBC and Barclays would, in the words of Moody's, still benefit from the probability of systemic support.
Some people will still choose not to buy health insurance, and they will be at the mercy of hospitals.
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Allowing your friend to believe that you too think her six-act play about the invention of the cotton gin is bound for Broadway and of course Hugh Jackman would be an excellent choice to play Eli Whitney is not an act of mercy, but one of cowardice (albeit well-intentioned).
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The moral here is: Stuff your retirement accounts full when the kids are younger, because if you try to catch up when they are in college you will be given no mercy.
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So although the problem remains when it comes to banks that we can't live with them and we can't live without them (many would say), there is a way for companies to take greater control of their financial destiny and be less at the mercy of the banking system.
We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
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He wants more of his car parts business to be in the sale of replacement parts, where he is not at the mercy of the sharp-penciled carmakers.
As he has done in aerospace, Bossidy wants more of his car parts business to be in the sale of replacement parts, a business where he is not at the mercy of the sharp-penciled carmakers.
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