Sentence examples similar to pleading for fair from inspiring English sources

Thucydides in his classic Peloponnesian Wars relates a dialogue between the Athenians and the residents of the island of Melos, whose beleaguered people encircled by the Athenian fleet pled for fair treatment, only to be superciliously spurned - and then annihilated.

13 Baehrens, the first collator of G, inclined to overvalue it: Schenkl, on the other hand, perhaps overvalued N. Giarratano pleads for a fair estimate of the merits of G, even if N is on the whole the better manuscript.

Recently, at the University of Notre Dame, we saw him navigate the moral and symbolically charged terrain of abortion and embryonic stem-cell research, choosing to take them head-on and pleading for "fair-minded" debate and calm tempers.

He was pleading for time.

Shane ran inside, pleading for help.

The Philadelphia 76ers were pleading for help.

I was pleading for mercy.

But school administrators are pleading for mercy.

She was pleading for help.

They are pleading for relevance.

"She was pleading for water.