Sentence examples for try to succour from inspiring English sources

Come then, Giovanni, try To succour my dead pictures and my fame; Since foul I fare and painting is my shame.

There is little emotional succour in this work, so I try to redress the balance elsewhere.

In this, so far at least, it has failed: about 1.1m of the province's 1.8m people have by now been driven from their homes, and in the past fortnight alone over 360,000 have fled the country.The immediate plight of these wretched refugees is, understandably and rightly, a pressing concern for western governments, as well as for the aid agencies trying to give them succour.

Handsen Chikowore London When Philip Hammond talks about a threat to the standard of living of the EU, I hope that at least some of us would be prepared to shave a little off our standard of living in order to offer some succour to those trying to escape the chaos of Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, and the western NATO powers trying to pacify it, accuse Pakistan of succouring, or at least suffering, the Taliban who have found refuge in its northern tribal areas.

Arab tribes and other ethnic groups in the country's rugged south are running amok, smuggling arms, trafficking people and providing havens and succour to assorted ne'er-do-wells and jihadists pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda and even to the murderous Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.The West has tried to keep out of Libya.

Well, the gospels urge us to succour the poor.

Plans to succour both countries with military exercises are being speeded up.

Worst hit are the sick, the elderly and children.The woes of front-line residents have mounted as the authorities who are supposed to succour them vanish.

In the Balkans, for a start: many of the righteous followers of Islam were Albanians who felt obliged to succour Jews under their nation's code of honour.

Everyone knows that the Inter- Services Intelligence – their leaders appear to be interchangeable with the regular army – continue to succour and guard and lead the Afghan Taliban.