Sentence examples for begging for clemency from inspiring English sources

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Propaganda-wise, it was good to have America's chief spymaster in Pyongyang begging for clemency This time both goals were important, but there seems to be something else going in Pyongyang as well.

In one appeal, Camille Hankins, the director of Win Animal Rights, sent an e-mail message to the A.S.P.C.A. begging for clemency and accusing the organization of completing "what the animal abuser who threw her off that Brooklyn rooftop set out to do".

At the end of the day, my feet were begging for clemency.

Propaganda-wise, it was good to have America's chief spymaster in town begging for clemency.

These tapes reveal the plotters discussing the conspiracy apparently before their arrest on December 21st and then, in later clips, acknowledging their guilt and begging for clemency.In this section Back to the bottle?

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The witness who stands up in court to sing a Lutheran hymn seemed to me as honest as the old peasant couple who beg for clemency in a letter that begins: "Dearly beloved Fuehrer, a wretched mother is begging you on her knees for the life of her daughter, who committed a grave sin against you, but you are so great, you will surely show her mercy".

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott commuted the death sentence of a convicted murderer less than an hour before he was set to be executed on Thursday, after the death row inmate's family begged for mercy and won a rare clemency recommendation.

Instead, I begged for mercy.

Robert merely begged for mercy.

While awaiting his execution, Bonnet wrote to Governor Johnson, begging abjectly for clemency and promising to have his own arms and legs cut off as assurance that he would never again commit piracy.

I'd also beg for special clemency for the people who are roaringly, blatantly one sexuality but won't talk about it, often for the most obscure personal reason – that old octogenarian aunt they can't quite face upsetting; that religious hang-up logged deep in the cerebral vaults; their dead mother's ghost they don't want to offend.

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