To atone, Mr Demirbas has been providing money and materials to restore Christian monuments in Sur.
It is an understandable sentiment in a country seeking to atone for inventing fascism.
But Israel's Libyan Jews say he has sought to atone for his youthful Arab radicalism.
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To atone for these messes, the exchange's president, Takuo Tsurushima, resigned, with two other executives.
Owen was given the chance to atone for his misses when Liverpool won a 31st minute penalty.
Yet when complaints rained down on the BBC about Mr. Robinson's word choice, he felt obliged to atone.
We atone for our alleged sins by showering foreign dictatorships with money and the sanction of diplomatic discussions.
And through reparations, trials, schoolbooks and monuments, Germany did much to atone for the crimes of the Nazis.
Japan has found it difficult to accept and atone for its treatment of the citizens of countries it occupied.
Another Stevenson set-piece led to the underdogs going in front as McLaughlin helped to atone for his own goal.
The Catholic church has an unfortunate record of anti-Semitism that it has spent recent decades trying to atone for.
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Its chairman said he would stand down to atone for the party's disgrace.
The final offers Nalbandian the chance to atone for his three-set defeat to Federer in the group stages last weekend.
Not only did Austria fail to atone for its share in Hitler's rise, the coming of war and the Holocaust.
Yet China has stepped up its anti-Japanese education and accused Japan of not doing enough to atone for its wartime deeds.
Djokovic, a loser in the U.S. Open final last year to Andy Murray, looks like he wants to atone for that defeat.
In the past few days I've begun to atone for my private failings with my wife, Silda, my children and my entire family.
Nokia Siemens is facing a tough public relations quandary: how to atone for the political sins of a business it no longer owns.
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Nunavut was established in 1999 along with a sweepingly powerful Land Claims agreement designed to atone for Canada's previous offences against the aboriginal peoples.
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It is well to remember than Usama bin Laden himself has said that two million American children must die to atone for imagined transgressions against Muslims.
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He may be messianic and looking for ways to atone for his sins, or for the sins of his system or for all the Evil in the World.
Mr. Hosseini's 2003 debut novel, "The Kite Runner, " about an Afghan refugee's attempt to atone for a childhood betrayal, spent nearly two years on the best-seller lists.
Much of his worldly outlook was no doubt shaped by visits to some 40 countries, repeatedly having to handle nagging demands to atone for his father's sins.
Just after his death, it appeared the nation would begin taking steps to account for the atrocities of war and atone for the sins of its soldiers.
Therefore it views itself as uniquely positioned and qualified to atone for the civil rights roadblocks of the sixties and seventies to which many of them were bystanders.
Across the political spectrum philanthropy seems to have become the modern equivalent of indulgences purchased by the rich to atone for their participation in the sin of moneymaking.
The Toffees had been booed by their fans after a 1-0 defeat by Newcastle in the Premier League on Saturday and were looking to atone at Griffin Park.
Mitin had had an Orthodox priest bless each of his businesses, Grisha had told her, which made her think the man had more than enough to atone for.
Second gen hardware is generally expected to atone for the bug-ridden sins of its predecessors, so hopefully a short delay now means avoiding a quick patch later.
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"We need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forebears, to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people, " he said.
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