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Others made earnest pleas for action against global warming, and the atmosphere was mostly calm until a group of masked anarchists clad in black arrived on the scene.
During the debate over unemployment benefits, Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat of Oregon, made a plea for action on behalf of those in need.
Neil Heslin broke down repeatedly as made a plea for action, recounting the day of the massacre in which his son Jesse, 6, died.
In fact the record shows he did, making a plea for action on the doubling of aid, opening up trade, debt relief, HIV/Aids and malaria, conflict prevention and genocide.
On his return to the United Kingdom earlier this week McGregor made an urgent plea for action to reach the millions of children needing care, medicines and support.
So a TED talk can now be from someone involved in organising Tiananmen Square protests, working in Africa or, like venture capitalist John Doerr, making an impassioned plea for action on global warming.
Surveying the wreckage that once was the Russian economy, Domingo F. Cavallo, a former Argentine economics minister, who emerged this week as one of the Kremlin's most influential advisers, made a plea for fast action.
Presenting the 12th annual report on children and armed conflict to the Security Council, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui made a plea for urgent action.
Whatever personal calculations may have been involved, their departures brought rare and resonant eloquence to their pleas for action.
