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This, they hold, gives the man a chance to atone for any hasty decision he might have taken.
On inquiring, he learned that this man was fasting frequently to atone for his sins.
But the eradication of color and blank skies alone could not atone for the analog indiscriminateness of photography.
Still, an Ashes series has been lost and lost badly, something for which yesterday's win can compensate but not atone.
Nor does he require of us good works to atone for our sins or works of supererogation to atone for the sins of others.
As if to atone, Winslow brought two Acadian families back to Marshfield, where the town temporarily fed and housed them in the school.
Feeling reasonably guilty for my lack of input in our annual dissection, I decided I needed some intellectual nutrition to atone for my sins.
It is patched up but it would be a generous gesture on your part to see her and atone for our collective sins.
In the same way, man must also elect Christ to stand as his representative before God and to atone for his sin.
I will quickly write something intelligent tomorrow to atone for the blithering idiot I am tonight.
He is desperate to be given a chance to atone for the worst experience of his fledgling career.
Is it possible for that family to make amends and atone for its ill-gotten gains?
They may also lie on beds of nails, walk on fire and undertake other penances to build character and atone for sins.
Fantasising about being a saint in the city and obsessing on the prospect of eternal hellfire, Charlie realises he must atone for his sins.
His successors on Chicago's south side have a chance to atone for those sins this week.
He will have one more chance to atone for his failure in the final of the triangular series against Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
To atone for this great sin, Hercules had to perform twelve nearly impossible tasks.
The masochist, in secret contract with the reified order, imposes its sanctions to atone for his or her inadequacy or inferiority or guilt and thereby experiences momentary release from its tyranny.
In the Old Testament, a sacrifice without blemish and the laying on of hands and slaying it to take it's blood are needed to atone sinners.
Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.
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Yates had a proud record to sustain, harwell a decade of worsting to atone for.
A few minutes of such intense suffering might atone for more than one venial sin.
When his passion should subside, would he not perceive the flagrancy of his injustice, and hasten to atone for it?
No amount of crime and bloodshed will atone for the stationary mechanism of this lucubration.
The fellows said little, but promised to atone for it when the boat race came off.
But did this blood in reality atone for the sins of the people against that law which was concealed under the mercy seat?
Masters of the Addisonian art are few but those few almost atone for the general lack of polish.
He hastened to atone for it by endorsing the cheque 'Smith and Co.' at once.
What crime did our arboreal ancestors commit that we must so suffer and atone for it?
Would to Heaven I may thus atone for the past, and secure your future felicity!
So, even if I never find the Spirits, I shall be worthier Lily-Bell's affection if I strive to atone for the wrong I have done.
When the author came to revise the material, he found sins against taste which his zeal for righteousness could not suffice to atone for.
Not in euthanasia, but in torment of mind should the guilty atone.
But no favorable circumstances palliate or atone for the disadvantages of dissension in the executive department.
Evidently old Marda meant to atone for the shortcoming of the noon.
And not all the grace of internals can atone for external monotony.
It is a delight to atone for a fault by obeying your commands.
If he had erred, let him at least atone for his error with his blood!
A fine view and a church tower opposite atone for the many stairs, and I took a fancy to my den on the spot.
Ten thousand unthinkably atrocious deaths could not atone for the affront that you have put upon me.
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