How to use shown no mercy to in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "shown no mercy to" and check conjugation/comparative form for "shown no mercy to". Mastering all the usages of "shown no mercy to" from sentence examples published by news publications.
Why it matters: The E.U. and its institutions have shown no mercy to the U.K. at a time when domestic political confusion means Brexit is an unwanted distraction.
|
|
More recently the Tories have shown no mercy to big firms such as SSI, whose Redcar steelworks shut down in 2015, and Carillion, an outsourcer that went under last year.
|
|
One of these evangelical visits was to the country of the Wattatonga tribe, a group whose traditional lands included the newly established Avenue Range Station. He returned from this trip to tell Smith that eleven of the tribe had been massacred by two white men. Wergon had persuaded a witness whose parents had apparently been killed in the massacre to return with him. According to Wergon, "the white men had shown no mercy to the grey-headed old man or to the helpless infant on its mother's breast", and the apparent motive for the massacre was the killing of sheep belonging to a settler in the Guichen Bay district.
|
|
A few days later, on February 9, the crowds returned to the Charlottetown courthouse to learn Millman's fate. Justice Hensley rejected the jury's recommendation to spare the defendant's life, declaring he had shown no mercy to his young victim even though she had done him no harm. In pronouncing sentence, the judge ordered that Millman be "kept in custody until Tuesday, the tenth day of the month of April...and that on that day, between the hours of eight o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, within the walls of the said prison, you be hanged by the neck until you are dead." Millman was returned to his cell.
|
|
No results under this filter, show 4 sentences.