An ulcer is unforgiving.

The terrain is rugged and unforgiving

The Madonna might have mercy on my uncle.

And, one day, he came in to my session exhaustive and unforgiving, these sessions and he said to me, Wow.

Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'

Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

The forces of nature can be benign, but at the same time destructive, unforgiving and unpredictable.

They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.

They shall lay hold on bow and spear they are cruel, and have no mercy their voice roareth like the sea and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

Then the angel of Yahweh replied, O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?

Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

Because of the drought, the hunger and the unrest among my people, of the merciless demands of the foreign powers, the situation in Peking cannot be expected to become tranquil.

Such disturbing developments reveal the extent to which Governments and employers are prepared to suppress workers' rights to win a competitive edge in today's cut throat global markets.

Problems relating to natural disasters, particularly inclemencies of weather, are long standing problems with which SIDS will have to be prepared to cope indefinitely.

Simultaneously, governments, under merciless pressure from the bond markets, are introducing labor and product market reforms that they deemed politically inconceivable only a few quarters ago.

As a result of the Armenian army apos s barbaric actions, which have not spared even the innocent civilian population, thousands of people, having left all their possessions at home, have clogged the roads of the Republic, swelling the already vast ranks of the refugees, whose number is approaching one million.

And, of course, hard pressed middle class American consumers benefit hugely from low cost Chinese imports the Walmart effect that enable them to stretch their budgets in an era of unrelenting pressure on jobs and real incomes.

Nothing can be more distressing than the disappearance of one apos s child the constant hope that each day brings of the longed for return, the dashing of the same hopes as the sun sets without news, and the inability to mourn and come to terms with death which might at least resolve the pain of the relentless incertitude of days, months and years of waiting.