Sentence examples for try to intercede from inspiring English sources

'I'll try to intercede with those bad people.

I told them that I would try to intercede with their captors, who had by now disappeared.

Things quickly become chaotic, and other videos show more dark-suited men, some carrying furled red Turkish flags, kicking and punching protesters — some in the head as they lay prone on the ground — as D.C. police try to intercede.

"When you saw that the majority of the bishops preferred to have a dialogue with the military," Father Pérez del Viso, 78, said, "it's not easy to say, 'We will do something different.' " He added: "Many of the bishops opted, rather than to confront the military head on, to try to intercede in private conversations for those they could save".

As reported by Congressional Quarterly, which covers Capitol Hill, and The New York Times, Ms. Harman was overheard agreeing with an Israeli intelligence operative to try to intercede with Bush administration officials to obtain leniency for Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman in exchange for help in persuading Democratic leaders to make her chairwoman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Did his family try to intercede?

Griles has said that he never tried to intercede on behalf of Abramoff's clients.

Wallace shoved several teammates away when they tried to intercede on Thursday.

Mr. Yousseff, of the village Ezbet el Tamanin, said his sons were shot in February as they tried to intercede in the carjacking of a cousin.

John O'Connell, a lawyer for Mr. Almonte, said his client went to the building thinking "it was just a party" and "tried to intercede" when the assaults began.

In the months after her exclusive interview last year with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Barbara Walters tried to intercede to get a television position for a former aide of his, who Ms. Walters acknowledged helped arrange the interview.