Sentence examples for pleading on behalf of from inspiring English sources

By 1937, he was pleading on behalf of figures like Nikolai Bukharin, a Bolshevik revolutionary who was executed soon after.

Or are the critics pleading on behalf of a form — open-ended serial television shows — that simply, for the most part, doesn't thrive as audiovisual creation?

Over flickers of electric guitar, Miguel addresses the "C.E.O. of the free world," pleading on behalf of the poor and the forgotten: brown farmworkers and black kids gunned down in the streets, from Standing Rock to New Orleans.

Does this all amount to special pleading on behalf of overpaid bankers?

Trustbusters are rightly wary of special pleading on behalf of banking or other industries.

Comment: Kavanagh may be accused of special pleading on behalf of Sun staffers and other arrested journalists.

This problem often comes up when the rich plead on behalf of the poor.

In any event, I would like to use this opportunity to plead on behalf of the tabloids and those guttersnipes who work for them, in the netherworld.

In the film's sole heartrending scene, Beam forcefully pleads on behalf of Annabel to a nervous hospital employee, failing to fight back a flood of tears.

The future pope told his biographer he had helped to hide potential targets of the junta and "I did what I could, given my age and my limited contacts, to plead on behalf of those who had been seized".

He pleads on behalf of elderly slaves, Hebrews and others, who are given impossible loads to carry.