Sentence examples for make a plea to from inspiring English sources

In that case, Lieberman said, he would "make a plea" to his colleagues on Petraeus's behalf to defeat it.

The Pres. had been scheduled to make a plea to Congress for early enactment of pending civil-rights legislation.

As well as calling for cultural education, Forgan will make a plea to protect the arts more widely.

In a series of six vignettes, various drivers make a plea to strike, relating the stories of their lives as justification for their decision.

So at the end of "Naming Nature" (W. W. Norton, 2009), I make a plea to readers to go out into the world and see the life and find the order in the living world around them.

Speaking at a two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers in Istanbul, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, said he would make a plea to countries to send more trainers.

Scaramucci then made a plea to viewers.

Supervision was so poor that inmates often made a plea to workers.

And so a historian named Boris P. Trenin made a plea to officials.

Before the game, Paul Konerko, the White Sox first baseman, made a plea to fans to behave.

Then, as roads grew slicker, the event's planners made a plea to constituents seldom heard in politics: Stay home.