If, on the other hand, that slight and merciful sentence is not sufficient, it will be possible for the sheriff to impose a longer sentence.
However, there may also come a time when we have to remind ourselves that sanctions are a merciful alternative to war.
The intentional taking of life, whether at the patient's request or from a merciful motive, is illegal in this country.
To a humane man the inclination to administer the merciful dose is often almost—not infrequently quite—irresistible.
We want to be as merciful with one another as we are to our own animals.
Often a jury is seen to return some extraordinary merciful verdicts, out of fellow feeling.
If somebody refuses to co-operate in keeping the highway clear, surely the merciful preventive provisions of this paragraph of subsection (3) should come into operation.
I do not think women are more merciful than men.
