These policies have left us badly exposed and at the mercy of natural phenomena like drought. |
I think human beings in the 21st century are at the mercy of so many things. |
I was quite literally at the mercy of the Inquisition and was completely unable to tell a lie. |
You are at the mercy of Mother Nature and toil long, hard hours in the knowledge that you could earn more working in a supermarket. |
Even the excessive amount of time I am spending at the mercy of my employers is not enough to dampen my spirits. |
What is set up as a life and death struggle, a dying father at the mercy of experimental science, is left unresolved. |