Example sentences of "at the mercy " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry has marketed Britain energetically as a year-round destination , with many attractions that do not leave the visitor at the mercy of our fickle weather . |
| 2 | I was now at the mercy of others and nobody in a position of authority had , so far , shown any great desire to help . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck . |
| 4 | Four months at the mercy of the weather taught Mr Glennie to enjoy the moment . |
| 5 | Until it was developed , prawn hatcheries would remain at the mercy of factors beyond their control . |
| 6 | Banning unofficial action will put individual workers entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous employers who will be able to dismiss them selectively on the slightest pretext , without any right of appeal . ’ |
| 7 | Acquire a free spirit : You are at the mercy of check-in staff , late passengers and air-traffic control . |
| 8 | Britain faced the prospect of a winter without food and without energy , at the mercy of powerful unions and ineffective employers . |
| 9 | Without such a starting point , she argues , a leader is at the mercy of events and unlikely to produce coherent policies . |
| 10 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 11 | In such a situation the worker is at the mercy of the capitalist and is therefore exploited . |
| 12 | Making the means of production into private property leads to exploitation , for if people have no access to the means of production they are at the mercy of those who do . |
| 13 | Marx argued throughout Capital that although slaves might be more at the mercy of the whims and fancies of their owners than wage workers , it was at least in the interest of the owner to ensure the minimum welfare of his slaves , since they were his property . |
| 14 | In this country we can count our blessings that our children are not constantly at the mercy of these diseases . |
| 15 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 16 | Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board 's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy — using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross . |
| 17 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 18 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 19 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 20 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 21 | The unity of India was imperilled , he said , by a government which was ‘ at the mercy of the rightists and the charity of the leftists ’ and which held power only by the magnanimity of the Congress leader , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , who did not try to form a government . |
| 22 | It is always at the mercy of the people who design and use it . |
| 23 | Poor Americans might be left at the mercy of luck and charity . |
| 24 | Perhaps , I thought , they were peeping Toms , voyeurs on the hunt for indiscreet novios and novias embracing in the shadows , as we did , at the mercy of every intruder . |
| 25 | Practitioners seem to accept that worthy cases of mercy killing invariably have this outcome , but this informal approach provides the defendant with no legal basis for a defence — he or she is truly at the mercy of the psychiatrists , the prosecutor , and the judge . |
| 26 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 27 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 28 | The introductory leaflet did not mince its words : ‘ It was a period when words contradicted deeds , propaganda realities , and when everyday life was full of fear , hypocrisy , and people felt helpless , having been at the mercy of those in power . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You 're at the mercy of some pilot and God knows what state they 're in , ’ he added . |
| 30 | We are all at the mercy of these machines , which few people understand and nobody can control . |