Search results for "Mercy" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • China became increasingly weak and at the mercy of foreign enemies. They ... China became increasingly weak and at the mercy of foreign enemies. When ...
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  • "I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will ... *Chapter 8—God reiterates his plan to show mercy to Jerusalem and ...
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  • brought the possibility of forgiveness and mercy into the picture, nonetheless ... statements about God's love and mercy of all force, for without ...
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  • #Mercy killing. #Physician-assisted suicide. #Killing a terminally ... ===Mercy killing=== Mercy killing refers to killing someone to put ...
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  • governor John Webster; his mother, Mercy Steele, was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony. Noah had two brothers (Abraham ...
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  • The judge commented that it was not for mercy, but that the state ... wpleaformercy.htm "A Plea for Mercy"], American Rhetoric ...
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  • and secret teachings about compassion, mercy, and emptiness. ... the motherly qualities of compassion and mercy. Undoubtedly, Tārā was ...
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  • application ("may He entrust to us his mercy"), in order to avoid ... predictions of the Prophets, and to have mercy upon his Temple and his people ...
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  • process by which he learned the value of mercy over strictness. The first ... them alone! It is written: 'His mercy is upon all his works.' ...
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  • # Daily practice of the Works of Mercy. # Houses of Hospitality for ... Day said "Our rule is the works of mercy. It is the way of sacrifice ...
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  • cabinet) under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy. Applications are also made ... The power to grant pardons and reprieves is a royal prerogative of ...
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  • released. Two more of its singles, "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" ... * Dyson, Michael Eric. 2004. Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves, and ...
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  • * A Mercy (2008 ISBN 0307264238) * Home (2012 ISBN 0307594165) * God Help the Child (2015 ISBN 0307594173) ===Children's literature (with ...
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  • declined to the status of a minor state, at the mercy of the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia and the Serbs in the Balkans. Andronicus, who was an intellectual ...
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  • reliable method to accomplish such "mercy killings." ... quot;Gitta Sereny, Into That Darkness: from Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, a ...
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  • the malfeasant person or people. God in his mercy did not want the transgressor ... (1 Samuel 15:22, NIV); "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment ...
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  • and her blood falls on sinners, pleading for mercy and repentance, for on the cross she is intimately united to Jesus Christ. Her blood, then, is ...
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  • were interdependent on one another, and at the mercy of each other. He warned of new types of crime that emerged in the modern world, such as white ...
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  • The Jews pray to the Lord for mercy, and two angels appear from heaven. The elephants then turn on the royal troops and trample them instead ...
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  • reminds them of God's justice and mercy, outlines various commandments ... cities who do not agree to terms, and no mercy is to be offered to the cities ...
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  • opinion in the community is a token of divine mercy." ... or attributes (sifa) (such as God's mercy, power, knowledge) had some ...
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  • 1855.jpg|250px|thumb|Russian Sisters of Mercy in the Crimea, 1854-1855]] ... Catholic orders such as Little Sisters of the Poor, Sisters of Mercy ...
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  • Akiva teaches that God combines goodness and mercy with strict justice ... must also be exemplary for man. "No mercy in [civil] justice!" ...
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  • to his music. In Belgium, the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau (1837-1890) was ... by and dedicated to the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau (whom the composer ...
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  • as they understand it, it also shows His mercy in forgiving those who have ... be saved, due to God's overwhelming mercy (BT Sanhedrin 105a). ...
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  • nations will be subjugated without mercy. The prophecy continues with ... portion of the book discusses God's mercy and restoration, as though ...
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  • the forest guardian. Now at Gilgamesh's mercy, Humbaba pleads for his life, promising to give the king all the lumber he desires. Enkidu, however ...
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  • blaring at night (including buglers sounding the no-mercy call El Degüello), artillery fire, and an ever closing ring of Mexicans cutting off potential ...
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  • animal upon the Ark of the Covenant and the mercy seat which sat on top of ... again together, and receive them unto mercy." Hebrews 9:4 states ...
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  • with the writing of the Biography of the Goddess of Mercy, written during the Yuan Dynasty (1279 – 1368). This work, a pious rendering of the life of ...
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  • clan, but at the request of his wife, showed mercy and exiled Yoshitomo's three youngest sons Yoritomo, Minamoto no Noriyori, and Yoshitsune. ...
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  • general have tended to stress the need for grace, mercy, and forgiveness because of human weakness. With divine assistance, the Christian is called to ...
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  • (We wish) to appoint him as a sign to mankind and a mercy from Us (Allah), and it is a matter (already) decreed, (by Allah)’" (Qur’an 19:17-21). ...
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  • Psalms, and the prayer, "O Lord, God of Mercy, unite me in Heaven with those whom you have permitted me to love on earth." ...
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  • still remain. In other words, although God has mercy upon sinners who repent their sins—thus enabling them to avoid eternal punishment in Hell—His ...
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  • of Guanyin, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy. Dorothy Perkins, Encyclopedia of China: The Essential Reference to China, its History and Culture. ...
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  • who were loyal Gedaliah and Babylon, but showed mercy to those who were willing to support him. Taking several royal daughters, apparently his cousins ...
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  • category:image wanted Divine command theory is the metaethical theory that an act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is commanded by ...
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  • St. Angelo to proceed against Hus without mercy. The cardinal placed him ... The king admonished him to deliver himself up to the mercy of the ...
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  • Infelix ego, in which he pleaded with God for mercy for his physical weakness in confessing to crimes he believed he did not commit. On the day of his ...
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  • to follow his inspirations in the exercise of mercy. Before becoming a monk, Martin expressed the desire to become a missionary, but he never ...
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  • caught him and accused him of theft. He begged for mercy, and the old woman agreed to be lenient, on condition that the then-unborn child be surrendered ...
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  • grateful, and the local rakshasas begged for mercy, which Bhima granted them on the condition that they give up cannibalism. The rakshasas agreed to ...
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  • a famous passage in the Book of Hosea, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice (Hosea 6:6), Yochanan helped persuade the council to replace animal sacrifice ...
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  • (We wish) to appoint him as a sign to mankind and a mercy from Us (Allâh), and it is a matter (already) decreed, (by Allâh).'"—Qur'an ...
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  • sculpted cherubim were included as part of the mercy seat on top of the Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 25:18-21). The Book of Numbers depicts the voice of ...
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  • However, like all businessmen, court Jews functioned at the mercy of the prevailing economy and changes in economic conditions, over which they ...
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  • # Ar-Rahman (The Beneficent, The Mercy Giving), 78 ayat, three rukus, Madinan sura # Al-Waqia (The Event, The Inevitable), 96 ayat, three rukus ...
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  • of their own and thus were at the mercy of the state (see Num. 18:21–24). # A separate annual feast tithe, which went towards the expenses and ...
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  • Above all one would hope that the good sense, if not the mercy, of the English people, will cry out against the further development of this cruel ...
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