give no quarter
Example Sentences
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What would it look like to express those concerns and those grievances while also making it explicitly clear that you give no quarter to these people?
From Slate • May 18, 2022
Roth would give no quarter to such claims nor to the implication that an artist carries some extra-moral burden to defend the public image of his ethnic identity.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2018
These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One thing is certain--if even a single inch is taken away from the monument's boundaries, activists like Dave Willis will give no quarter in their battle to protect the forest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Pope Gregory IX would give no quarter, and excommunicated the Emperor because he had been unable to go on a crusade owing to pestilence in his army.
From Heroes of Modern Europe by Birkhead, Alice