Sentence examples for pleading for assistance from inspiring English sources

She attended meetings at the League of Nations four times pleading for assistance on their behalf.

What can we do?" He said that the village had made several appeals to government officials, pleading for assistance.

Whatever the reason, the chief engineer now finds himself following Captain Miller to meeting after meeting, pleading for assistance, a reluctant supplicant to a foreigner half his age.

Millions of air travelers were in similar situations, of course -- straining to get home, where they could better absorb the events of Sept. 11, but fully aware they were pleading for assistance from the one industry with a threadbare capacity for help.

Who was it who seemed to be writhing in pain and pleading for assistance in that moment?

Unknown militants have also detained a French woman, Isabelle Prime, and on Monday released a video in which she pleaded for assistance and appeared frail and in poor health.

Rebel leaders allied with the West have pleaded for assistance beyond the medicine and food already provided by Washington; other promised aid, like night vision goggles and body armor, apparently has not arrived.

Mr. Ban might have gotten another earful if he had gone out to a food distribution site in the devastated community of Peguyville, where residents pleaded for assistance that would do more than stop the day's hunger pangs.

AIG continued to plead for assistance in a meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Tuesday, with time running out and prospects fading for a private bank-led rescue.

AIG continues to plead for assistance in a meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Tuesday, with time running out and prospects fading for a private bank-led rescue.

Helpless, they pleaded for assistance.