Sentence examples for Plea for compassion from inspiring English sources

It amounts to a plea for compassion.

This is not just a plea for compassion for the suffering Other; the Other could very well be us.

Yesterday, the United Nations issued a plea for compassion in the handling of the refugees, most of them from Afghanistan.

The United Nations issued a plea for compassion for the refugees, mostly Afghans, rescued Monday by the Norwegian ship from a sinking Indonesian ferry, above.

Meanwhile, for the civic authorities, the sit-in is not a plea for compassion but an illegal occupation, and the machinery of justice starts to grind.

Bruce Springsteen, the E Street Band and a string section opened the show with his muscular new single, a militant plea for compassion as a kind of patriotism: "We Take Care of Our Own".

Ever since the news of Darryl Strawberry's suspension from baseball because of drug use, I've been touched by the pleas for compassion among his fans, teammates, Yankee management and New Yorkers everywhere (editorial, March 1).

There were no mea culpas from Howe, no soul-baring, no pleas for compassion.

The title (and title poem) are satiric pleas for compassion for those who have briefly shone in the bright gaze of the gods of good fortune -- once young and beautiful, once star-like, but now burnt out and irrelevant.

This war was never intended to claim the white suburbs, and if only the plague had remained contained to a quiet ethnic cleansing we would not see the public outcry and the pleas for compassion and mercy that ring out all over the nation.

The secretary general opened the conference today with a plea for more compassion for people with AIDS.