However, in early 2001 the country's then-ruling Taliban regime had the statues destroyed, despite worldwide pleas to save them.
To worldwide condemnation, and ignoring pleas by British politicians and international organizations like Amnesty International, Formula One decided to honor its contract with Bahrain.
The two men -- Sanjay Kumar, the former chairman and chief executive, and Stephen Richards, the former head of worldwide sales -- entered their pleas during a brief arraignment hearing.
1, 2 In 1987, a plea for safe motherhood worldwide was launched.
In 2012, Saño shot to worldwide fame when a video of his emotional plea to the UN climate talks went viral.
And, as Jeanniey Mullen, executive director and senior partner for worldwide e-mail marketing with OgilvyOne Worldwide, explained, your plea pops up the next morning with... company.
So I answered a plea from the Community of Sant'Egidio, a worldwide Catholic prayer and charity organization, to write a letter of solidarity to a mentally-disabled death row prisoner named Johnny Paul Penry.
Today, as part of a week of activities under the theme "The World's Biggest Ever Lobby," thousands of children worldwide are taking part in the "National Lobby," making a personal plea to their governments to get more children into school.
In 1978, after Israel invaded the country, his plea before the United Nations Security Council — "Let my people live!" — was reported worldwide.
Thomas J. Lueck (NYT BROOKLYNN: PORNOGRAPHY PLEA A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty yesterday to running a worldwide child pornography club on the Internet in which members traded pornographic images of prepubescent boys and girls.
