Sentence examples for beg on behalf from inspiring English sources
The little talib -- small children who beg on behalf of religious leaders, a distinctive and deplored feature of the Senegalese landscape -- were sitting on their begging bowls in the front of the crowd, joking and pushing.
Relief organizations receive plenty of donations for a specific crisis, but can't find the money to build wells to supply clean drinking water; hospitals have more than enough support for breast cancer research but have to beg on behalf of kidney research.
By government decree, and under international pressure, Senegal has forbidden the marabouts to enlist children to beg on their behalf.
As her 6-year-old daughter chases after passersby, Ms. Zhang does not hesitate when asked why she allows her child to beg on her behalf.
Her old neighbor Murline Campbell begs on her behalf.
Hundreds of French people wrote to the investigating magistrate to express outrage, demand the death penalty and, in a tiny number of cases, share stories about their own experiences of childhood sexual abuse and beg, on the girl's behalf, for mercy.
"I implore you," he begged voters on behalf of the governor last month.
I am begging Congress, on behalf of my husband and our entire military, please do not let President Bush further abuse our fighting men and women.
Children beg on the streets.
On this view, Plato begs the question on behalf of an absolutist conception of truth (Burnyeat 1976a: 44).
It's good PR for Kardashian, and bittersweet luck for Johnson (now 63, she has been imprisoned for over twenty years)—but who else gains from such an asymmetrical mercy as that of a duchess begging the throne on behalf of a single life?
