Sentence examples for supplicant for from inspiring English sources

A9 Wolfowitz Woos Europe Paul D. Wolfowitz visited Europe as a supplicant for its good will, shedding his image as a unilateralist and entreating his hosts to approve him as the world's banker for the poor.

The sultan regarded the French king largely as a supplicant for commercial favours, which were granted in the Capitulations treaty of 1536, an agreement by which French subjects were given the freedom to travel and trade in the sultan's dominions and subjects of other states wishing to do the same were required to secure French protection.

But Mel was not a hopeless supplicant for a younger woman's love.

It is the only supplicant for proper adaptations and maybe lacks all the means possible in a normal tissue wound repairing process.

That's bad timing for supplicants looking for money for big stuff — water, roads, schools, what have you.

These days most businesspeople have to stand in line with other supplicants for an audience with their political masters.

Only a windfall of C$4.3 billion from an auction of wireless spectrum in July will prevent a deficit in the current fiscal year ending in March.Still, there is no shortage of supplicants for public money.

David Falconer's "Vermin Death Star," hundreds of freeze-dried rat carcasses encased in fiberglass and resin, stands in the arch of the door through which supplicants for municipal largesse once thronged.

Japanese bureaucrats have traditionally controlled policy at the national, regional and local levels, virtually relegating elected politicians to the position of supplicants for public works, for which they can claim credit.

If one were cynical, one might conclude that the FDA was colluding with big pharmaceutical companies to turn potentially threatening new biotech ventures into supplicants for buyouts and licenses.

The treaty is an important document in the history of India, because it was the last occasion when an Indian power dictated terms to the British, who were made to play the role of humble supplicants for peace.