Sentence examples for eleventh-hour plea from inspiring English sources

The chancellor, foreign secretary and home secretary made their case as other Tory supporters of equal marriage made an eleventh-hour plea to fellow Conservative MPs to vote in favour of reform by invoking the record of Margaret Thatcher, who supported the legalisation of homosexuality in the 1960s.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour plea by Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip to stay his execution, minutes before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour plea by Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip to stay his execution, minutes before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

Like those eleventh-hour pleas from the platform.

Tory supporters of equal marriage are making an eleventh hour plea to fellow Conservative MPs to vote in favour of reform by invoking the record of Margaret Thatcher, who supported the legalisation of homosexuality in the 1960s.

His eleventh-hour change of plea at London's Old Bailey came as he exhausted legal avenues to stop his case, due to reach trial on Monday, being heard in the criminal courts.

Multiculturalists of the first hour supported their plea largely by referring to the communitarian framework.

But his 11th-hour plea didn't work.

An 11th-hour plea by Ruth Foster, mother of ineligible player Sharon Foster, could not save Van Nuys, which forfeited 12 regular-season victories and a first-round playoff victory over El Camino Real.

Shea Heeley, 19, changed his plea to guilty at the eleventh hour, sparking angry scenes at Sheffield crown court with two men shouting from the public gallery.

But despite a direct plea for calm from Sanders, many of his 1,846 delegates in the arena repeatedly jeered at mentions of the party's presumptive nominee for the first hour or two of the evening.