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  • She shamed him into making amends
  • No one amends lightly something as vital as a blueprint.
  • He is the MBE who did very little for it, but has since made amends twentyfold. Battling and brave: Paul Collingwood retires from Test cricket
  • On Sunday they did not do themselves justice tactically or in terms of conviction, but they are extremely lucky to have a chance of making amends so quickly.
  • While the wronger will admit no wrong, while he mocks at the idea of amends, or while, admitting the wrong, he rejoices in having done it, no suffering could satisfy revenge, far less justice. Unspoken Sermons Third Series
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  • It pleased me no end, trying to make amends for many years of imposed suppression.
  • Tory wanted the Prince to make amends with Calin, or at least to try. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • Garret was actually nice to me one day, and it continued on; it was as if he wanted to make amends again, and renew our broken friendship.
  • The batsmen ran four as Lewis floundered to the boundary to make amends, but the game was up.
  • Since that time, Feinstein said she has tried to make amends with her longtime political ally and friend.
  • Clear Channel, KFI, and John and Ken have been in the wrong to purvey, condone, and sell hate speech in the past and are in the wrong now as they blunder this opportunity to make amends to several key Los Angeles communities. Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken: The Best Apology Is a Farewell Message
  • However, he quickly made amends with a crisp strike at the end of another well-worked move and then flying winger Sam Crompton fired high into the net with a thunderbolt of a shot.
  • But a high nose, a full, decided, well-opened, quick grey eye, and a sanguine complexion, made amends for some coarseness and irregularity in the subordinate parts of the face; so that, altogether, Montrose might be termed rather a handsome, than a hard-featured man. A Legend of Montrose
  • To make amends I shouted him a double absinthe, and ordered two shandies for Irigaray and Virilio.
  • And she said insult was added to injury when the company tried to make amends by sending her a single one-way travel voucher without a return ticket.
  • This means I have been sober thanks to Jesus, and I haven't had to sit in a room with a lot of alkies talking about this 12 steps stuff where you have to apologize and make amends all the time. Chris Durang: Bush Gets New Speechwriter
  • And this, it may be added, is now the ordinary acceptance of the word; to "atone" is to give satisfactlon, or make amends, for an offense or an injury. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • Pac Bell has sought to make amends with the Stinsons by agreeing to pay their cellular phone bill.
  • As ready as he is to make amends, and as ready as his siblings are to accept that, all that is needed, in dramatic terms is the symbolic enaction of atonement and acceptance. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Clearly upset, the Ilkley midfielder proceeded to make amends and had a storming final 40 minutes.
  • But he pushed me to make amends, and the whole thing was pretty nerve-wracking really, but it was a mostly cool night.
  • That's right -- tip up the kelter, it will make my bones amends, [14] Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
  • Now aged 80 and living in Britain, he is making amends by giving today's young people a fascinating glimpse of life behind enemy lines.
  • Or was she penitently striving to make amends for the unmerited harshness she had dealt him? CHAPTER 10
  • ‘When someone genuinely apologizes and makes amends, most Canadians will forgive them,’ Stowe said.
  • It is true that he made amends by adding, when his lecture was published, a counter statement; but that such a man should have seriously cited such a work shows the widespread mischief done among people not versed in engineering lore by the admirably written romance of Smiles, who as Edward C. Knight, in his Mechanical Dictionary, truly declares, has "pettifogged the whole case. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
  • Publicists for Rihanna and Lady Gaga claim the song “Silly Boy,” a little diddy about a guy attempting to make amends with a woman only to be harshly rebuffed, does not feature either woman. Rihanna “Silly Boy” (Ft. Lady Gaga) Chris Brown Diss Track (AUDIO)
  • I've made amends to my family; I bring them a lot of joy because I'm clean and I brought them sadness during my using.
  • But although it amends the text to include the year, it does not include the date.
  • As Western Society worthy of the name continues to decline, the barbarism, violence, and victimization of those socieities which, for humanitarian reasons, endured higher taxeation, disparate treatment, and reverse discrimination against their own, in an attempt to make amends and enculturate the other, will only increase. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • And these four knights aforesaid came to Canterbury on the Tuesday in Christmas week about Evensong time, and came to S. Thomas and said that the king commanded him to make amends for the wrongs that he had done, and also that he should assoil all them that he had accursed anon, or else they should slay him. 12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
  • Full credit to them though, they're making amends by offering an upgrade to people's accounts.
  • At least one public school system is making amends.
  • The event was organized by the District Council to make amends with locals disgruntled by weeks of traffic delays caused by roadworks.
  • If another person has been, apologize and, when appropriate, make amends.
  • He that's crabbit without cause should mease without amends. The Proverbs of Scotland
  • With time allowing the first two second round heats to also be contested this afternoon, however, he was able to make amends and gained revenge over his wildcard opponent.
  • I will continue to give Hailey the benefit of the doubt and assume that in the next few days, he will begin making amends.
  • He isn't happy with what he calls a "mediocre" 2011 season and wants to make amends. NYDN Rss
  • Since that time, Feinstein said she has tried to make amends with her longtime political ally and friend.
  • But she notes that, although the _Tatler_ showed its teeth against the "Proposal to the Ladies," the compilator made amends to the author (if not to the bookseller), by transcribing above a hundred pages into his _Ladies 'Library_ verbatim, except in a few places, which would not be found to be improved. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
  • She tried to make amends by inviting him out to dinner.
  • A neat but obvious final twist makes amends for a horribly clichéd finale set on a rickety balcony.
  • All of the ideas and all of the amends are delegated down from the project managers and the conceptual people to the people who actually produce the final work who are also the people who actually understand what widgets and doodahs are for.
  • I had compiled a short list in my head of who I needed to make amends with.
  • Now aged 80 and living in Britain, he is making amends by giving today's young people a fascinating glimpse of life behind enemy lines.
  • He expects a busy afternoon against a team hell-bent on making amends for last year's blip in an otherwise tremendous season.
  • On the erotogenic zones Schneiderman claims that Lacan does not accept Freud's list but amends it by replacing the phallus and the genitals with the ears and the eyes. Lacan: An Exchange
  • how can I make amends
  • We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy saints. Feast of the Sacred Heart
  • If the Chinese have the good sense to make some kind of amends, then it'll settle down. The Bear and the Dragon
  • You're wracked now because you cannot make amends.
  • In the case of the King, the only amends practicable is the restoration of the Ministers possessing the confidence of the country. The Place of the King in the British Constitution
  • The impulse to make amends is not a bad one.
  • Sir," saith Lancelot, "Your amends love I much, and your love more than of any other; but never, please God, will I misdo you for aught that you may have done to me, for it is well known that I have not been in prison for no treason I have done, nor for no folly, but only for that it was your will. The High History of the Holy Graal
  • Later she would have to apologise to him. to make some kind of amends for what she was doing, but if she stayed in this room with Lewis even one second longer. A Cure For Love
  • We are best advised at the end of the day to make amends for it, to settle our hearts and rest our limbs ready for a new dawn.
  • The use of that exact phrase amends the Endangered Species Act by implication, Department of Justice attorneys argued, even if the rider didn't reference the specific law. The Seattle Times
  • Where they find a youth of spirit, let them endeavour to govern that spirit without extinguishing it; to bend it, without breaking it; for when it comes once to be extinguished, and broken, and lost, it is not in the power or art of man to recover it: and then (believe it) no knowledge of nouns and pronouns, syntaxis and prosodia, can ever compensate or make amends for such a loss. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
  • It seems to me now that her excessive devoutness is her way of trying to make amends for her marriage not being sanctified. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • The bowler, however, agreed to continue when he was advised that instead of feeling depressed, he should just concentrate on making amends in the second Test starting here tomorrow.
  • In these instances, it is rare for the more illustrious team not to make amends for their sloppiness second time around.
  • Is it possible for that family to make amends and atone for its ill-gotten gains?
  • The players were obviously stung by criticism of their performance in Christchurch and determined to make amends.
  • After his death, the scientific community made amends for their initial disrespect by naming the metric unit of energy after him.
  • They could have him, and welcome; but the prior considered that it was due to his dignity - in this mood fully abbatial - that the senior officer then in charge, sheriff or deputy, should come in person to make amends for the inconvenience to which the abbey had been subjected, and remove the troublesome element. Monk's Hood
  • a deep modification -- the idea of amends for the wrong done taking the place of revenge. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
  • Nina felt in that moment that somehow she must make amends for all the wrong she had done in her life.
  • Past membership in odious organizations may not be relevant in Judge Alito's case, but it cuts both ways, so the next time the Republicans remind the Democrats once again that Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) used to belong to the Ku Klux Klan (which he acknowledges and has apologized and made amends for time and time again), we can then point to Judge Alito's membership in CAP. January 2006
  • What Woods does to make amends is nobodys friggin business. Think Progress » Fox News Televangelist Hume: Tiger Would Be ‘Farther Down The Road’ To ‘Forgiveness’ With Christianity
  • I also know that Ronaldo, now that he is fit again, is focused on making amends for the disappointments, both personal and national, in France.
  • He made a point of faithfully attending the therapy sessions -- to all intents the sincere supplicant anxious to make amends. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • It threw me into a sort of enthusiastic and pleasing reverie, which made me ample amends for the fatigues, discourtesies, and continued cross accidents I had encountered in the course of the day. Travels in England in 1782
  • After his death, the scientific community made amends for their initial disrespect by naming the metric unit of energy after him.
  • For if any of the commoners were to make avowry for beasts taken in the common pasture it would then follow that if the Inquest were to pass against the plaintiff, he who avowed the taking in the common pasture would have the return of the beasts and the amends, and not the lord of the pasture, and that would be improper. The Customs of Old England
  • After his death, the scientific community made amends for their initial disrespect by naming the metric unit of energy after him.
  • Is it possible for that family to make amends and atone for its ill-gotten gains?
  • Hazel "had tried her damnedest to make amends," Mr. Margolick writes. Little Rock Revisited
  • Bayezid subsequently made amends by building a mosque in front of his palace and appointed a place for himself therein.
  • Israelite and his dulcinea dejected in consequence of their disgrace, the poet absorbed in lofty meditation, the painter in schemes of revenge; while Jolter, rocked by the motion of the carriage, made himself amends for the want of rest he had sustained; and the mendicant, with his fair charge, were infected by the cloudy aspect of our youth, in whose disappointment each of them, for different reasons, bore no inconsiderable share. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • But they have owned up to ripping off their customers and they have been making amends.
  • In the same moment, he heard his name courteously sounded; and, to his pleased surprise, saw Don Benito advancing -- an unwonted energy in his air, as if, at the last moment, intent upon making amends for his recent discourtesy. The Piazza Tales
  • The thesis improves the mortality table assumption, amends the assumption of retired population , wage and contribution.
  • She was sincere and genuine in her wish to make amends for the past.
  • But Harmison made ample amends for that brainstorm, although it was the former Yorkshire seamer Mitch Claydon who did the early damage, bowling Jacques Rudolph with a perfect inswinger. Michael Di Venuto stands firm for Durham while Ajmal Shahzad shines
  • Referring to Orme, Shirley sniffed, “It is a joke to suppose that secondary officers can make amends for the defects of the first; the mainspring must be the mover—the others in many cases can do no more than follow and correct a little its motions.” George Washington’s First War
  • The world number two made swift amends in his second round, eagling his second hole - the 11th - and going on to reach the turn in 32.
  • The panel talks to the youngster, the parents, and where possible, the victim, to agree a tailor-made contract aimed at making amends.
  • It was also an opportunity to make amends to some of the foreign press. WALL GAMES
  • Plan B was to drive to Miami, go to Alexandra's house, explain everything, try to make amends, bring her into it. OFF THE CHART
  • Anciently they did not plead de novo after an amendment; therefore giving rules to plead again, T C 1 8 1 cannot be the ancient courfe j becaufe the pra&ice of pleading de novo is but of late introduced, but with great reafon: When the plaintiff amends and gives an imparl - ance, there (hojld be new rules; otherwife not* Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
  • Here is the _valuable_ revenue of the Company, _which is to supply them in their exigencies, which is to come from sources which otherwise never would have yielded it_, -- which, though small in proportion to the other revenue, yet is a diamond, something that by its value makes amends for its want of bulk, -- falling short by 40,000_l. _ out of 95,000_l. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
  • My final law school exam, which was derby day morning, he unexpectedly showed up with one – no meringue – and while we watched Derby color I had to make amends with my Grandmother on the phone. Firedoglake » Pull Up a Chair…
  • At least Paterson wasted no time in making amends.
  • She first made out these words, “Love-wounded Proteus; ” and lamenting over these and such like loving words, which she made out though they were all torn asunder, or, she said wounded (the expression “Love-wounded Proteus” giving her that idea), she talked to these kind words, telling them she would lodge them in her bosom as in a bed, till their wounds were healed, and that she would kiss each several piece, to make amends. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • He seized the chance to make amends for his behavior.
  • Yet, his interpretation amends these theogonies, perhaps in light of some of the teachings of Xenophanes.
  • Now, though, it appears that the music industry is setting out to make amends for its many syntactical sins. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can be quite hard and cruel sometimes, I know that, but I do feel contrition and try to make amends.
  • It was technology that brought us the car, but it is making amends with high fuel-efficiency cars, the electric Smart car, and, of course, unleaded petrol.
  • Both missed with other attempts before Stephens made amends in the second half, landing another three penalties and kicking three conversions.
  • Is it just a matter of making amends for the damage we did earlier as imperial powers?
  • He will work with the West Yorkshire Police youth offending team over the next three months on schemes aimed at making amends for his crime.
  • All of the ideas and all of the amends are delegated down from the project managers and the conceptual people to the people who actually produce the final work who are also the people who actually understand what widgets and doodahs are for.
  • Plan B was to drive to Miami, go to Alexandra's house, explain everything, try to make amends, bring her into it. OFF THE CHART
  • So, Summerville is making amends for this publishing lapse, not with hefty volumes but in a compact single volume, and in a way that should please both historian and amateur enthusiast.
  • The only kind of amends he could make for the other's hurt was to provide hands, feet, and strength for the man who did know what to do and how to do it. The Time Traders
  • He that's crabbit without cause should mease without amends. The Proverbs of Scotland
  • Faced with the threat of a writ, the BBC – in a cowardly act of dhimmitude – made an offer of 'amends' and an apology on the Question Time website. Easy money, expensive words
  • Whenever we are caught up in industrial calamities, experts ought to examine the cause and make amends.
  • No one amends lightly something as vital as a blueprint.
  • We can apologize for it and then begin making amends.
  • Before the game their players arranged a private meeting in which they pledged to make amends for a disappointing league placing.
  • He tried to make amends in the dying seconds of the half, setting a clever pass into the run of Ross Hamilton.
  • Zacchaeus made a public confession of his past and declared he was ready to make amends.
  • Exeter's was built in 1286 by the cathedral dean as an act of amends for his alleged involvement in the murder of his deputy, the cathedral precentor three years earlier.
  • Plan B was to drive to Miami, go to Alexandra's house, explain everything, try to make amends, bring her into it. OFF THE CHART
  • He wanted to make amends for causing their marriage to fail.
  • The question of making amends for slavery also ran into the sand, again for similar reasons.
  • If she owns up to her mistreatment, seems genuinely sorry and makes amends, you should have no problem setting the friendship back on track.
  • The least I can do to make amends, now, is to compare the two, taking care to italicize their common elements. Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod
  • The offer of amends signifies a willingness to place oneself in the hands of the court for assessing the appropriate steps to be taken by way of vindication and compensation.
  • Countless rug burns and torn knee ligaments later, they tried to make amends by vacating the dome for a retro stadium.
  • I suppose you could say I am making amends after all these years.

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