Sentence examples for aid plea from inspiring English sources
Victor Homola (NYT) MONGOLIA: U.N. AID PLEA -- The United Nations is appealing for further aid to assist Mongolia through a harsh winter that has already killed 500,000 head of livestock and seems likely to kill several million more.
Henri E. Cauvin (NYT) ETHIOPIA: AID PLEA Ethiopia appealed for its mainly Western donors to release over $1 billion in frozen development aid that was suspended during Ethiopia's violent border war with Eritrea.
Seth Mydans (NYT) AFGHANISTAN: AID PLEA The United Nations refugee agency called for more aid for Afghanistan, warning that drought conditions may force Afghans to flee to Pakistan and Iran.
Re "Scams Point the Desperate to Nonexistent Assistance; Pleas for Aid Deluge Perplexed Foundations" (news article, Feb. 13): As a funding research and grant-writing consultant, I am angered on several levels by the new mail order scams.
Leaders of the Cuban American National Foundation, the powerful exile group, immediately got on the phone to Havana, trying to contact Cuban government insiders to offer humanitarian aid and a plea for democracy should there be a change of power.
Mr. Bush seems to be headed the other way, coupling his announcement of food aid with a plea to finish the Doha Round of trade talks that would emphasize not sustainable, local production of food, but food exports.
Celia W. Dugger (NYT AFGHANISTANN: PLEA FOR AID -- The United Nations has appealed for contributions of $229 million to aid Afghanistan, hit by its worst drought in 30 years and a civil war that this year alone has displaced 200,000 people and sent 30,000 across the border.
Furthermore, Louis refused Clement's plea for aid to Crete, which then belonged to the Venetians, against the Ottomans.
Pope Francis intervened on Sunday with a plea for aid to Syrians fleeing the five-year war.
On Wednesday, the government rejected the lender's plea for aid, fueling speculation that the company would file for bankruptcy.
For the past several weeks, he has ended his curtain calls at the Barbican with a plea for aid to Syrian migrants, exhorting audience members to leave their change in donation buckets in the foyer.
