Sentence examples for general plea from inspiring English sources

Others are making a more general plea for peace.

"It was just a general plea to be heads up, be aware and participate".

(On Saturday, Trevor Timm, of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, put out a "general plea" for a leak).

Mr. Bush reiterated his own position in a context of a general plea for strengthening the country's armed forces.

Instead the film ends up being a sort of pep talk for parents and general plea for gay rights.

About halfway through a magazine article that made a general plea for tolerance but chided American leaders for occasional arrogance and self-righteousness, Mr. Wickert suggested that President Bush and Osama bin Laden had both displayed intolerance.

But he was said to be resisting the generals' pleas to take the job.

Despite the general's pleas, however, Specialists Lyaacoubi and Bahammou say they were swept into a tide of suspicion after the Fort Hood shootings, which occurred midway through their Fort Jackson training.

But neither the US National Security Agency, which has gradually resiled from its admission to our commission that it held two relevant records, nor, as Dr Banton's letter (29 August) suggests, the UK government, has so far responded with any vigour to the secretary-general's plea for cooperation.

Albert J. Pirro Jr., the husband of Jeanine F. Pirro, the Republican candidate for state attorney general, accepted a plea deal yesterday in a speeding case that will allow him to keep his driver's license, a court official said.

Despite U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's plea for a "cooling-off" period, the Freedom Rides demonstrated that militant but nonviolent young activists could confront Southern segregation at its strongest points and pressure the federal government to intervene to protect the constitutional rights of African Americans.