Sentence examples for moving appeal from inspiring English sources

The release of the film follows a moving appeal by Cantlie's sister on Monday, calling for his release.

In his speech, Mr Singh made a moving appeal for unconditional dialogue, but did not yield to this demand.For some Kashmiris, that was one of several disappointments.

Referring to an almanac for proof, Lincoln argued that the night had been too dark for the witness to have seen anything clearly, and with a sincere and moving appeal he won an acquittal.

In Sophocles' Antigone the heroine counters the ruler's decree forbidding the burial of her brother with a moving appeal to the moral law of Zeus, which, she believes, has more valid claims to her loyalty than the duly constituted government.

The elderly father of a British journalist being held by Islamic State (Isis) in Syria has died after making a moving appeal from his hospital bed for the release of his son John Cantlie.

In a moving appeal on video, smuggled out of Burma and shown to the foreign ministers this morning, the Burmese dissident Daw Aung San Suu Kyi urged "the peoples of the free world to work harder toward bringing true democratic progress everywhere".

So can you.' " Committee members had been deeply impressed by Mr. Mann's oratory in the early days of the hearing, and his quietly moving appeals to duty and principle circulated widely in the news media.

In his heyday – historian Manning Clark wrote – he proceeded "with a wild ecstasy and relish", bringing Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles to Canberra, and making "moving appeals to the intelligence and idealism of the Australian people".

Then, for the rest of the night, the station broadcast moving appeals for the return of the medal, and frantic telephone interviews with fans who claimed to know its whereabouts.

Quest is already moving to appeal directly to consumers.

But moves of this sort will do exactly the opposite, creating uncertainty and deterring new projects, which is no doubt why such moves appeal to big carbon special interests and anti-environmental obsessives.