Example sentences of "appealed for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appealed for leniency on the grounds that nothing had been touched . |
| 2 | As US officials produced evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and appealed for support from other Latin American countries in their campaign to oust him , their case was weakened by evidence that the US had been an important supporter in the general 's rise to power and that the CIA had known about his trafficking for years . |
| 3 | Commander George Churchill-Coleman , head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad , last night appealed for the public to be vigilant as a result of ‘ this timely reminder ’ . |
| 4 | Until the beginning of NEP they constituted a disparate group of individuals to whom the party appealed for letters on local affairs , but in 1922 they acquired their official title and were subject to much more pressure from the centre . |
| 5 | The Key words in this are ‘ by charitable means ’ and we acknowledged this recently when we appealed for funds for Dowding House under the theme ‘ We honour the dead by helping those who live ’ . |
| 6 | While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice . |
| 7 | Mrs Chamorro appealed for close international scrutiny and support for the electoral process , and for observers to be sent to Nicaragua from unions and professional groups , as well as the UN and the OAS . |
| 8 | France expressed horror at the assassination and appealed for unity to assure peace in the country it once ruled . |
| 9 | At Southampton General Hospital , where 90 out of 360 nurses are off sick , management appealed for volunteer nurses . |
| 10 | Sex-change operations are more than some Lancashire members can cope with , and a bewildered silence descended on the Tyldesley Suite as Ms Lloyd , who runs a string of shops for transvestites , appealed for a ‘ more enlightened approach in future ’ . |
| 11 | Both men have been identified as broadly supporting the repatriation policy and Mr Hurd , who again appealed for voluntary agencies , including the United Nations , to end their boycott of the monitoring process , may be willing to expand the delegation . |
| 12 | AUSTRALIAN entrepreneur Alan Bond yesterday appealed for the support of his shareholders , saying his debt-burdened brewing , property and media group would survive . |
| 13 | REPRESENTATIVES of 1,600 Lloyd 's of London names who lost hundreds of millions of pounds through syndicates run by Mr Dick Outhwaite yesterday appealed for an out of court settlement of a threatened legal wrangle . |
| 14 | He appealed for all Muslim organisations to join the Alliance . |
| 15 | Pakistan 's Javed Miandad then appealed for calm , but he failed to quieten the protesters . |
| 16 | The prime minister appealed for international financial help for the Gulf conflict . |
| 17 | Albert Schweitzer appealed for the same cause the following year , and in January 1958 Professor Linus Pauling , the Nobel prize-winning chemist , presented the signatures of more than 9,000 scientists to the United Nations secretary-general , Dag Hammarskjöld , warning the world of the genetic dangers of tests and calling for their immediate end — it was this which immediately influenced Sakharov to make the same appeal to Khrushchev . |
| 18 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 19 | The Surveyors-General frequently complained of depredations by local people upon the forest woods , and on one occasion at least appealed for aid to the titular head of the Forest administration . |
| 20 | After Thursday 's rampage by crowds which burned the Venezuelan Embassy , Col Muammar Gaddafi appealed for ‘ self-restraint ’ and ordered more troops on to the streets to protect foreign missions , Libyan radio said . |
| 21 | In the most emotional speech of the day , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Vice-President , appealed for parliament to come to the aid of the Russian minority in the TransDniestr region of Moldova , the scene of bitter fighting in recent months . |
| 22 | The commission appealed for 200,000 tons of food immediately and said that , if if there were any delay , many thousands more people would die . |
| 23 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 24 | Yesterday Mr Newman 's girlfriend appealed for help in finding the person responsible for what police called the ‘ maniacal ’ killing of Mr Newman . |
| 25 | SCOTLAND Yard yesterday issued descriptions of the two vans used in the IRA bombings in the City of London and Staples Corner bombs and appealed for information about their movements on and before last Friday . |
| 26 | It appealed for sympathy with the unemployed in a way which did not challenge the consensus about the problem . |
| 27 | Paul Grace and Councillor James Doherty came out of the court and appealed for restraint , and after negotiations with the police about a dozen relatives of defendants were allowed in . |
| 28 | The following day Ivan Cooper appealed for an end to unplanned marches ; clearly the leaders of the DCAC were aware of the large amount of good luck , as well as careful planning , which had enabled them to avoid any major violent incidents . |
| 29 | It was to these fanatical warriors , and above all to their chieftain , that both Motamid and the Caliph of Badajoz appealed for aid against the steady encroachments of Alfonso . |
| 30 | God seemed remote but I appealed for his protection and received a measure of assurance , though I felt that I was followed by an evil presence . |