Sentence examples for plead action from inspiring English sources
She returned to plead action be taken to protect cyclists in the capital "now and quickly".
With the major powers again at loggerheads, President Marcus Stephen of Nauru traveled the nearly 8,000 miles from his tiny Pacific island state to plead for action.
As credit lines gum up and outsiders plead for action, it is not just the euro that is at risk, but the future of the European Union and the health of the world economy.It is a sobering thought that so much depends on the leadership of squabbling European politicians who still consistently underestimate what confronts them (see article).
Only when I met on urgent demand with then EU-designated mediator Carl Bildt did I get the whiff of an outright betrayal: As I pleaded for action, Bildt told me that there would be no action to overcome the fall of Srebrenica and that the UN/NATO safe areas of Zepa and Gorazde would also not be defended.
For some time now Mr. Shiller and others have been pleading for action to limit market volatility.
The upward trend in the yen's value is another matter, one that has political leaders pleading for action by the bank.
James does not mention Trump, but in pleading for action to stem gun violence he does take a veiled swipe at the Republican's divisive rhetoric.
"We woke up this morning and heard these huge explosions," Hannah Edwar, the secretary general of the Iraqi al-Amal Association, a political advocacy group, told the legislators, pleading for action.
Yet comparable emotion appeared in The Times only in a half dozen large advertisements pleading for "ACTION -- NOT PITY!" They were from groups urging the rescue of Jews or the formation of an avenging Jewish army in Palestine.
— Stephen O'Brien once again found himself pleading for action from the international community after Russia and China blocked yet another U.N. Security Council resolution designed to alleviate Aleppo's woes.
