Sentence examples for work pleading from inspiring English sources

As the family hero in my childhood home, I had the job of getting my father up in the morning, begging him to go to work, pleading with him to eat the breakfast I'd fix.

My brother was blind too, and I can still remember my dad, who used to come out and play cricket with us in the garden after work, pleading that it was nearly 10 o'clock and he could hardly see the ball.

The first ever monograph on Athey's work, Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey, edited by Dominic Johnson, is published for Intellect Live by Intellect and Live Art Development Agency.

It refused to begin detailed design work pleading the uncertainty of the post-war building situation and the already heavy workload of its design bureaux.

Take derivatives: Everybody and their brother around policymaking and media circles is hard at work pleading for the overhaul of the entire derivatives industry (not just the nasty securitization-credit stuff).

Immigrants seeking help arrive at the center where Jonas works "pleading to someone to grant them a right" — to safety, to freedom — "that everyone else they passed on the street, on the subway, and in traffic took for granted," he asserts.

As thousands of employees at the Port Talbot steel works pleaded for their livelihoods after being left to the mercies of global competition, the Panama Papers revealed the squalid manoeuvres of a monied class devoted to stashing away their cash in sunny places well away from the taxman's reach.

Forty-one years ago, daredevil Evel Knievel was spending his nights in a downtown L.A. jail and his days at work after pleading guilty to a felony assault charge for battering a TV executive with a baseball bat.

"We need your help to make this work," they pleaded with potential employers.

"Can we talk about the work?" he pleads like a little boy.

Stahl called her boyfriend, Chris Lyford, who was still at work, and pleaded for him to come home.