By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.
Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.