Sentence examples for make entreaties from inspiring English sources

This weekend senior Labour figures continued to make entreaties to the Lib Dems.

While they set up meetings with band managers and city officials, Mr. Evans reached out to the artists through other channels, activating a network of celebrity supporters and sending emissaries to make entreaties.

(The island has none of its own, and so the powers that be must make entreaties to the authorities in Paris, who permit them to borrow a secondhand apparatus from Martinique.) From the first moment she sees him led, shuffling and shackled, into his cell, Neel triggers an intense emotion in Mme.

I tried to make entreaties into getting Scottie Pippen here, but that was for a reason I explained to Glen, that he had played in a system I coached for 10 years, he knew it inside out, and he was a facilitator in the offense and a playmaker for us.

Several Democratic strategists said the White House's denunciations had made entreaties to prospective donors trickier.

Congress could also pass some type of rider for Mr. McCain to obtain the money without a functioning commission, but that would force Mr. McCain into the awkward position of making entreaties to a Democratic-led Congress so he could obtain the money needed for his campaign.

In private conversations, Rubio has been making entreaties to try give the bill a more conservative bent, according to sources.

While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan's leaders, (the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, also known as the "Big Six"), were privately making entreaties to the neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms more favorable to the Japanese.

This year's spring fundraising was a five-week slog, not the slowest, but long enough that the events director stepped in and stayed at the controls to raise the final $12,000 for over 24 hours of "Insurgent Radio," during which she made entreaties to be saved from a self-induced threat to eat a sardine every 15 minutes if pledging lagged.

By all means, I said, make your entreaties to Olympus.

"You've got to get to the people of influence," Mr. Cohen told reporters today, explaining why he had traveled to Hollywood this month to make personal entreaties to the stars to volunteer their services.