This problem often comes up when the rich plead on behalf of the poor.
By 1937, he was pleading on behalf of figures like Nikolai Bukharin, a Bolshevik revolutionary who was executed soon after.
Or are the critics pleading on behalf of a form — open-ended serial television shows — that simply, for the most part, doesn't thrive as audiovisual creation?
In any event, I would like to use this opportunity to plead on behalf of the tabloids and those guttersnipes who work for them, in the netherworld.
In the film's sole heartrending scene, Beam forcefully pleads on behalf of Annabel to a nervous hospital employee, failing to fight back a flood of tears.
The future pope told his biographer he had helped to hide potential targets of the junta and "I did what I could, given my age and my limited contacts, to plead on behalf of those who had been seized".
Over flickers of electric guitar, Miguel addresses the "C.E.O. of the free world," pleading on behalf of the poor and the forgotten: brown farmworkers and black kids gunned down in the streets, from Standing Rock to New Orleans.
He pleads on behalf of elderly slaves, Hebrews and others, who are given impossible loads to carry.
And all Democrats should be embarrassed that an eleven-year-old girl standing on national television to plead on behalf of her mother should have to face a group of asinine, entitled bullies, as well.
"She'd like to try this on," Mr. Woods pleaded on my behalf.
