• Israel has a moral responsibility to act justly and mercifully when dealing with her own citizens and others.
• The very word sickens me, and the thought of my own sisters acting mercifully is almost too much to bear!
• The wreath tradition stuck around until he mercifully ended it.

• The sudden and, as it turns out, mercifully brief closure of Fibbers threw into sharp relief the lack of venues for live music in York.
• Allie made her way onto the beach, still clumsy legs getting relief in the mercifully soft sand.
• That is the view of two leading experts on the topic who, yesterday, published a mercifully brief and clear summation of the situation.

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