beg for mercy

He’d recently been instructed to sign a request for a presidential pardon but refused to beg for mercy from Vladimir Putin, who he denounces as “a dictator, usurper and a murderer”.

“I would like to go to that meeting and beg for mercy and ask for them to let us come back to the table.”

But if all else fails, beg for mercy.

Of a second receptionist who offhandedly told Brown the person was gone for the day, she writes, “I wanted to punch her in the stomach and as she doubled over, gasping for breath, smash my fist into the bridge of her nose. I wanted to hear bone crack. I wanted to see blood, have her say NO, beg for mercy.”

“They think that if you hit some village in America with a nuclear strike, then the Americans will immediately get scared and run to beg for mercy on their knees,” Mr. Bondarev said, describing his colleagues’ comments.