Sentence examples for appealing for clemency from inspiring English sources

They consist of letters to the emperor and to Ovid's wife and friends describing his miseries and appealing for clemency.

"The fact that Indonesia for a long time refused to even acknowledge that there was a double standard in their insistence that Australia was infringing their sovereignty by appealing for clemency, while at the same time appealing for clemency for its own citizens facing the death penalty in other countries, that has been really quite damaging from Australia's point of view," he said.

The film offers few factual revelations (Michael acknowledges that the letter he wrote to President Eisenhower appealing for clemency was copied from someone's typed script) and a few flashes of irony.

In the 50's, he made headlines by appealing for clemency for the Rosenbergs, sentenced to death for espionage, and for encouraging people not to testify before Senator Joseph McCarthy's subcommittee.

Instead, it will come from Israel's dovish president, Shimon Peres, and some of the country's most respected public figures: Nobel Prize-winning scientists, retired generals, celebrated authors and intellectuals who have signed, along with more than 175,000 other citizens, an online petition appealing for clemency for Mr. Pollard.

The 1916 trial of Sir Roger Casement had everything a dramatist could want: salacious revelations, media manipulation, star cameos (George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Conan Doyle were among those appealing for clemency), political intrigue and a central character wrapped in mystery.

Brand appealed for clemency in the cases of Chan and Sukumaran before their deaths.

Police are appealing for witnesses.

It is appealing for hedge funds.

West Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses.

I'm appealing for unity".