And to meet a severe and urgent crisis abroad, tonight I propose the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a work of mercy beyond all current international efforts to help the people of Africa.

CNN: Transcript of State of the Union

Gartner's Koswolski says that current online car-buying web sites are at the mercy of the dealers that work with them.

BBC: General Motors' e-gamble

But until that day, we're called to work on behalf of a God that chose justice and mercy and compassion to the most vulnerable.

WHITEHOUSE: National Prayer Breakfast

We have a team of 25 Mercy Corps staff who live and work in Gaza and they have been scouring the local market for any stock available.

CNN: Aid worker: Gaza relief operation on the brink

While the cream of the crop of private school graduates gets the top 1% of jobs in hedge funds or successful companies like Facebook, most are in the bottom 99%, at the mercy of companies squeezing their employees and outsourcing professional work to countries with lower labor rates.

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Cruz and other sole providers with dependents are typically released on humanitarian grounds, but they can't work while they await their deportation hearings, putting them at the mercy of church leaders and local officials.

NPR: Communities Cite Impact of Immigration Raids