Anyone who's cycled through Amsterdam will know that the Dutch show no mercy towards the amateur cyclist, often racing past them at high speed and cutting them off in between tram lines and bus stops.

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Within days or hours even, it was expected that he would get to Benghazi, a city of 700, 000 people that was the center of the opposition, that he had told he would show no mercy.

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FedEx can say something like this: We promise you complete fidelity and reliability, except that if you drop something nasty into one of these boxes we will show you no mercy.

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The deputy justice minister said the brutality of the men's crimes meant there was no reason to show mercy.

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Of course, she is well aware that the warlord will give her kind no quarter whatsoever, it being not in the nature of these brutes to show mercy to anyone.

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