Sentence examples for pleas to be from inspiring English sources

Then their pleas to be saved might lend the programme some hitherto unseen meaning.

I heard these words again and again from young protesters, responding to Mubarak's pleas to be treated with the respect due to a father: "He's not my father".

But, for all the occasionally forced antics, Lewis's repeated "goodbyes" whispered directly into the camera are sincere, pathetic — and unrequited — pleas to be called back from the void.

Left alone in his cell despite his frantic pleas to be with others, he tightened his bedsheets around his neck and killed himself.

Konstantin's tantrums, his suicide attempt, and his writings are all pleas to be taken in, to be kept literally in mind.

It is inhumane to lock people up as if they were criminals while waiting for their asylum pleas to be processed.

This bizarre mix of Catholic, indigenous and African rituals originated from the town's pleas to be saved from destruction by nearby volcano Cotopaxi.

To date they have ignored our pleas to be heard and for our loved ones' lives and deaths to not be in vain – but no longer.

The kinds of exhortations to dream big that some previous generations and classes of graduates heard have been supplanted by pleas to be strong.

She fended off his urgent pleas to be heard, saying she would hear him a day later, when his lawyer could be summoned.

Alemayehu became a ward of Queen Victoria and, despite his continual pleas to be returned to his homeland, he died aged 18 in England.