Sentence examples for successful plea from inspiring English sources

There is a red, white and blue checked Maiden Form bra, a result of the company's successful plea to get the War Production Board, which was rationing material, to declare the brassiere an essential part of the war effort: the ranks of Rosie the Riveters, Maiden Form contended, needed them to do their jobs.

The letters were included in an ultimately successful plea by the administration to the Conflicts of Interest Board, asking that it allow Mr. Cardozo to continue working on stadium issues despite having formerly headed the legal unit that has represented the owners of the Jets.

"The church has been able to stimulate conversation" around the issue, he said, citing in particular Pope John Paul II's successful plea to the late Gov. Mel Carnahan of Missouri, to commute the sentence of a murderer to life in prison without parole.

It was almost certainly composed in England, and the dedication was probably a successful plea for Rotbert's patronage when Æthelstan died in 939.

In a piece headlined "How Roger Ailes Picked Trump, and Fox News' Audience, Over Megyn Kelly", New York magazine details the lengths he went to in order to mend fences, including "muting" the network's defence of Kelly and repeated, undignified but eventually successful pleas for Trump – who at one point said he was "never doing Fox again" – to be friends again.

But to voters pondering whether to make that second term happen, it amounts to a request for a presidential do-over — a tacit admission that the White House's first-term agenda has been less than successful, and a plea for a second chance to get things right.

Despite winning the case Snoop has too many prior criminal convictions to be likely be successful in his plea for a tour Visa.

It was significant as a commercially successful film, making a plea for racial tolerance, directed and acted with force and integrity.

The league also has a personal-conduct policy, but most suspensions that have fallen under that umbrella have resulted from successful prosecutions or guilty pleas.

The 42-year-old will be allowed to stay in the job for next season after neither Bild's attempts to push Stefan Effenberg on to the Royal Blues nor Rafael Benítez's come-and-get-me pleas proved successful.

Gwent temporary deputy chief constable, Lorraine Bottomley, said: "Evidence from other force areas which have used this technology indicates that its can increase the number of early guilty pleas and successful prosecutions in relation to incidents investigated by the police.