Sentence examples for collective plea from inspiring English sources

The words "Kyrie eleison" — "Lord, have mercy" — have been set to music thousands of times, but in the first bars of the Mass in B Minor, Bach's valediction, they become a peculiarly visceral cry, a collective plea for grace.

The words "Kyrie eleison"—"Lord, have mercy"—have been set to music thousands of times, but in the first bars of the Mass in B Minor, Bach's valediction, they become a peculiarly visceral cry, a collective plea for grace.

Last season the musicians played so fervently for Mr. Levine during a spacious yet incisive account of Mahler's Third at Symphony Hall that you would have thought the performance was a collective plea to this conductor to take the job.

To these inherited prayers we add our own, spontaneous expressions: the whisper of thanks for a car accident anticipated but averted, the silent but specific petition for a promotion or a raise, a team's collective plea to win, the wild screams for understanding after the death of a child.

When Dan Jarvis, MP for Barnsley, moved to the podium to give the keynote address at the Progress conference on Saturday afternoon, the audience gave such a long, standing ovation it almost turned into a collective plea to make him change his mind and reverse his decision not to stand for the Labour leadership.

At a summit in Fiji last week, the last major gathering of Pacific island nations before crunch UN climate talks in Paris next month, islanders thrashed out their collective plea to the world to help address the health impacts of climate change, particularly upon women, infants and adolescents.

Investor Ron Conway and Laurene Powell Jobs of the Emerson Collective offered a heartfelt plea to attendees to get involved to help DACA recipients at risk of losing their legal status in the United States.

But the Western governments ignored Spain's plea for "collective security".

On July 4, 1776, a collective of 13 young United States colonies declared a plea for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

His plea drew a few smiles but no immediate rush toward collective bargaining.

Afaq Ahmad, a defector from the air force intelligence branch, posted a 10-minute plea on YouTube saying that Alawites have to stop committing collective suicide.