Sentence examples for pleaded successfully from inspiring English sources

Along the way, he flew to Beijing and pleaded successfully with Chinese officials to stop blacklisting First Boston, which had met with Taiwanese businessmen.

Worst of times When he was 17, then-West Ham manager John Lyall pleaded successfully with police not to prosecute him after a gang fight.

Included is a painting by Reynolds of Lady Harriet Acland who travelled up the Hudson and pleaded successfully with General Horatio to allow her to stay and nurse her husband who had been wounded in the second battle of Saratoga.

An ardent abolitionist, Arthur also pleaded successfully the case of a slave who sued for his freedom on the ground that his master had brought him temporarily to the free state of New York.

Manasseh ben Israel (1604 57) used the legend of the lost tribes in pleading successfully for admission of Jews into England during Oliver Cromwell's regime.

In addition, the verdict should make it easier for prosecutors to pursue Enron executives on charges of false accounting or fraud, although there has also been some evidence in the Andersen trial that may allow Enron defendants to plead successfully that they relied on professional advice.Mr Pitt's draft reforms are now expected to go much further than was previously thought.

She pleads successfully with the Olympian gods to grant him immortality, but forgets to request that he also be gifted with perpetual youth.

Desperate to exorcise the spectre of jackbooted gendarmes hauling parliamentarians off their green leather benches to a Luxembourg courtroom, David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, found himself at a pre-summit meeting pleading (successfully) for the word "shall" to be cut.At the same meeting the Poles displayed a touch of the vapours too.

But after Mr. Skowron pleaded guilty, Morgan Stanley successfully clawed back $10 million in salary and lawyer fees from its former employee.

At his trial, Wint was represented by the future Jamaican premier Norman Manley, who successfully pleaded for leniency.

Since then, Con Ed and Verizon successfully pleaded with the White House to provide federal aid to cover their costs.