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.
Remarkably, Palestine's Hamas prime minister, Ismael Haniyeh, was not received in Saudi Arabia in December, when he was traveling through the region pleading for support for his beleaguered government.
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.
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.
"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.
The Gibraltarian government even took out a series of full-page advertisements in British newspapers pleading for support from the British public What was the substance of the deal with Spain?
As well as pleading for support on the Terrorism Bill, he tried to reassure them that the reforms he wants to push through on education, health and welfare would help the party win a fourth successive election after he stands down.
With House Democrats likely to line up solidly against Mr. Boehner's plan, the Republican leadership was pleading for support among the conservative rank and file, portraying it as the best alternative to end the impasse, even though it might fall short of the deep cuts many of the Republican newcomers want.
