Sentence examples for plea for having from inspiring English sources

Speaking at an event in Frankfurt on Wednesday, Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, made a plea for having Greece remain in the euro zone.

Federal officials announced on Wednesday that ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle has agreed to accept a plea deal for having sex with minors and obtaining child pornography.

His plea for clemency had landed on my father's desk; previously, Gov. Pat Brown had declined it.

Sometimes it has become quite impossible to establish where the wall was actually running through … If Wings of Desire was partly a plea for reunification, has the city lived up to it?

Baron-Cohen's plea for empathy has a hollow ring to the parents of children deliberately killed by Israeli snipers.

The plea for understanding had a callow, well-meaning earnestness, which the Wayanses parodied in 1996's "Don't Be a Menace to South-Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood".

Stringer's plea for unity had paid off.

Home health aides, for example, still lack the right to a minimum wage and overtime pay, their pleas for justice having been soundly rejected by the Labor Department and the Supreme Court.

Playwrights have tackled the messy subject of war at least since the Greek tragedians did, and if their dramatic pleas for peace have gone largely unheeded, the dramatist's compulsion to write about the topic has hardly waned.

In a typed letter he had copied and distributed in advance, he complained that his pleas for help had been rejected by the courts, the Housing Ministry and the National Insurance Institute, and that he was about to become homeless.

The Moon travel guide has a plaintive plea for visitors: "You have a beautiful place balanced on the edge.