Sentence examples for plea to take from inspiring English sources

There was a constant plea to "take back control" and be "proud" to walk away.

I waited in my hotel expecting a late-night call, a plea to take her back to the Bronx.

At first sight, Mr Cummings seemed on equally solid ground over a passionate plea to take as much power over education away from Whitehall and Westminster as possible.

I cannot watch the scene where Ebenezer Scrooge returns to hear his dying sister's plea to take care of her son without bursting into tears.

Agnelli resisted his grandfather's plea to take a safe job with Fiat during World War II, insisting instead on seeing combat with the Italian army first against the Russians and later against the Germans.

The chief executive of an American tire company touched off a furor in France on Wednesday as he responded to a government plea to take over a Goodyear factory slated for closing in northern France.

But he was said to be resisting the generals' pleas to take the job.

In the apartment next door, Yitzhak Amsalem, also in his 20s, ignored his mother's pleas to take shelter.

In the adjacent apartment, Yitzhak Amsalem, also in his 20s, ignored his mother's pleas to take shelter.

The movers stacked my boxes along the walls and waved goodbye; they didn't notice my silent, desperate pleas to take me with them.

The public today is bombarded by pleas to take action on global warming, Tibet, Darfur, breast cancer, starving children, Africans with AIDS, or Katrina victims, said Daniel H. Adler, the founder of Fanista.com.