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Yakuza members, who are six times more numerous than American Mafiosi, hand out business cards with gang names printed on them and frequently sport amputated pinkies ("cut to atone for a misdeed").
Pressed to accept a financial settlement that would have let the president off without so much as an apology, she is now adamant that Clinton be made to atone for calling her a "pathetic liar."
Also, a surprisingly favorable article about the Christian Coalition's campaign to recruit blacks and help rebuild burned black churches: This seems to be a truly sincere effort to atone for a history of white Christian racism.
Reed feels passionately that white evangelicals must atone for their opposition to the civil-rights movement.)
' The term is used largely in the Christian sense of Jesus dying to atone for the sins of man; his death reconciled, “made one,” God and man.