Sentence examples for succour against from inspiring English sources
But again and again, members of the audience used their meeting with the head of Britain's central government to petition him for succour against heartless or incompetent local officials.
The book's fictive construction of a girlhood idyll, its retreat from a harsh world into the cosiness of hearth and home, can serve up solace, even succour, against political quagmires past and present.
Passes were misplaced or dropped, runners were not where ball-carriers expected them to be, a few lineouts malfunctioned and it was only in the scrum, invariably a source of succour against Australia, where they enjoyed manifest superiority, awarded seven free-kicks or penalties to none.
They went to sleep a bit towards the end, letting in a couple that'll give the Swiss succour going into their game against Ecuador.
Their appearances provide, if not structural succour, then a regular buffer against the seething, overly diverting profusion of other characters and their escapades.
Born Alexander Bulatovich, he was a blueblooded officer in an elite regiment who went to Ethiopia in the 1890s, to bring succour to an emperor whom Russia backed against Italy.
But many others do not.They point out that although Mr Musharraf has nabbed several hundred al-Qaeda suspects since the September 11th attacks, his record against the domestic extremist groups who succour them is patchier.
"Those battles often bring out the best in us, but they can also bring out the worst, dividing us and setting us ourselves against each other in a way which only gives succour to those who wish to control us".
We had a new shield against onslaughts like this, a law designed to give us succour.
According to doctors, one new aspect of the Guinea outbreak has been patients' use of mobile phones, which makes isolation wards a bit less awful and provides succour to families, encouraging communities to work with health providers rather than against them.
The muezzins made a valiant effort to silence the (mainly) celebratory shooting by cautioning against wasting bullets, but to little effect.The NTC can take some succour from spreading the eastern symbols of the rebellion westward.
