Sentence examples for pleading for support from inspiring English sources

So he is campaigning earnestly by showering them with telephone calls and letters pleading for support.

Will we hear the Native American musicians pleading for support in their battle with Peabody Energy?

But having compromised both their secrecy and, under Blair, their independence, they have a credibility problem in pleading for support.

If only the local farmers (already pleading for support) could get beyond their paralysed dependence on monocultures, we'd be moving in the right direction.

They are subjected to heavy pressure from both sides, he said, with the government urging officers to speak out for Mr. Chávez and the opposition pleading for support.

"Our amendment ends bailouts by ensuring that no Wall Street firm is so big or so reckless that if it fails, as it does, so does our economy," Mr. Brown said in a floor speech pleading for support.

Advocacy: the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal.

In a recent appearance before the Islamic Foundation in Chicago, Ms. McKinney pleaded for support.

With Labour's normally un-jingoistic leader, Michael Foot, bellowing for "action not words", she pleaded for support for troops which, as yet, were still on British soil.

As she came across voters, she seemed far more inclined to implore them to "get involved in and aware of the political process" than to plead for support.

Appearing without a jacket or tie, his preferred look during his first campaign, Mr. Obama spoke with a combative tone, his voice becoming hoarse toward the end, as he pleaded for support for another four years in office.