The act of making amends is crucial to maintaining harmony in both our personal relationships and the world at large.
If Mr Hatoyama does not make greater amends for his own and Mr Ozawa's follies, the DPJ could well pay for it in upper-house elections this July.
Labor's picture of the country focused on multiculturalism, closer ties with Asia, breaking the constitutional link with the British monarchy and making amends for past wrongs to indigenous people.
Confessing a fault makes half amends for it.
To the extent the reforms may be lacking, it is up to Congress, not the Justice Dept., to make amends.
Often we waste too much time assigning blame and wanting the person who was in the wrong to straighten up and make amends.
Goody visited India to apologise for the distress her actions had caused and had hoped her appearance on, Bigg Boss, the India version of Big Brother would also help to make amends.
Setting a schedule and an action plan to make amends - and sticking to it!
The emperor has tried to make amends with Japan's neighbors during his visits in Asia by speaking openly of the suffering inflicted by Japanese troops during World War II.
Apologize to someone you've wronged and make amends.
Sometimes apologies are offered not to make amends with victims but to signal to an external audience that one is a good person.
Doesn't it seem odd that one can make amends but not one amend.
Clause 9 would amends 7 of the Ordinance, allowing the court to extend ouster and occupation orders any number of times for up to a maximum period of 24 months.
That's great — until a crucial member of your project team misses a week with appendicitis, someone's hard drive crashes and loses vital files, or the client calls and amends the project criteria.
Full amends was made.
That noon he sat down to dinner with us, and received a heaped-up plate from my hands, as if he intended to make amends for previous fasting.
When a friend of yours makes a serious faux pas, he tries to make amends later and undo what damage can be undone.
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