Sentence examples for that pleaded for from inspiring English sources

It was indeed the losing side — Maliki's — that pleaded for the cease-fire.

In Santa Claus hats, the fans waved placards that pleaded for the Titans players to get their just due in the Pro Bowl voting.

President Anastasiades, in a June letter to the European Central Bank that pleaded for help to keep the Bank of Cyprus afloat, described it as a "mega-systemic bank" that, if it failed, could bring down the entire Cypriot economy.

Rick Davis, the manager of Mr. McCain's campaign, gave reporters a letter that he had written to Karl Rove, chief strategist for the Bush campaign, that pleaded for a cease-fire.

The film, which makes its opposition to the death penalty plain (and this was before Ruth Ellis was hanged), anticipates the much more famous Victim (1961), starring Dirk Bogarde, a movie that pleaded for homosexual law reform.

On the first day of the closures, 9 September, Sokolich's office sent an email to Baroni that pleaded for a phone call on grounds of "urgent matter of public safety in Fort Lee".

Now, lawyers have shifted to letters that plead for extensions.

Although quality may be an absolute attribute, it is not necessarily attainable to perfection, or there may be practical or cost constraints that plead for compromise.

His lawyer filed court documents in October that pled for immediate medical attention.

But the attention the inquiry will get may bring other help, like bigger budgets for agencies whose spending has soared since the Sept. 11 attacks but that plead for still more money for spies, satellites and other means of collecting intelligence.

This is the rare case that pleads for the use of a search firm to help navigate the backroom politics of hiring a new coach.