Sentences with phrase «completely at the mercy»

They are completely at the mercy of guards and administrators, who have to balance the safety of the inmates against the public safety risk of freeing dangerous people.

We may see the infancy of the human race, as the long period of man's origins when he was completely at the mercy of his environment.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

I felt trapped and stuck and completely at the mercy of another human being.

Some companies only produce batches twice per year, as they are completely at the mercy of the tamanu tree's natural production.

On the rare occasion my husband and I do leave the house at night we have our nanny watch Archie but we are completely at her mercy.

Your schedule is completely at the mercy of each injection time.

Each detail is at your disposal to edit and the game is completely at your mercy.

He's a very passive character, completely at the mercy of his life's events — a point further reinforced by the film's rambling, episodic nature.

Looking at Amazon's treatment of the IPG is enough to highlight some of what it means to be completely at the mercy of a single distributor.

However, according to the laws of the day, she was completely at the mercy of her mother.

You can't browse lobbies, either, so you're completely at the mercy of a quick match system and a peer - to - peer connection type, unless you're playing as the killer in which case you get to start a lobby and wait for others to join.

'' Whether it's shelling a particularly troublesome flamethrower or healing your forces with an area - of - effect medikit, these direct actions make you feel in control, and not completely at the mercy of the game's AI.»

Each detail is at your disposal to edit and the game is completely at your mercy.

«As a part of the program, Stanley, like any AI, has access to far more information than you or I as players of the game, yet his ability to weave meaning into that data is completely at the mercy of the code that I write.

When you are under anesthesia, you are completely at the mercy of the medical professionals providing you with treatment.

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If you don't follow the warning signs that the Republican Party ignored, you could find yourself in the same situation — at the mercy of forces that are completely out of control.

Even, at times when I truly begin to feel intensely guilty for my thoughts and fear punishment, I remind myself that God even has mercy towards Satan, the very enemy of God, by not utterly and completely destroying his existence but given him free will to operate in this world and to do evil.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

Without a male protector and in the dead of night, Ruth is completely at Boaz's mercy.

The average teenager is completely clueless at controlling their skin; they end up at the mercy of the changing months.

At the mercy of a man who puts his life in danger to help him, Gary is completely removed from the political stakes of the struggle between the British government and the Irish Republic.

It does its theme of style so well, in all the categories listed in the previous paragraph, that the player has no option but to be completely immersed and be at the mercy of its world.

At the mercy of Scarecrow, the fate of the city hangs in the balance as he is joined by the Arkham Knight, a completely new and original character in the Batman universe, as well as a huge roster of other infamous villains including Harley Quinn, The Penguin, Two - Face, and the Riddler.

Unlike riding in a car, where the driver and passengers might have seat belts, airbags, and other protection, bicyclists are completely exposed and at the mercy of those around them.

Without an attorney looking out for your best interests, you're simply at the mercy of the insurance company and their motives are completely contrary to yours.