Example sentences of "[pers pn] appealed for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She appealed for the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of £4 billion . |
| 3 | After four years Roger died and , owing to the enmity of the bishop of Lincoln , she appealed for protection to Thurstan [ q.v. ] , archbishop of York . |
| 4 | She so wanted grandparents , that she appealed for a couple in the local paper to act as adopted granny and grandad . |
| 5 | She appealed for potential volunteers to contact the organisation for their next training programme which begins in October . |
| 6 | THE Princess of Wales spoke movingly of aching loneliness and rejection among AIDS victims yesterday as she appealed for compassion for sufferers and gave warning of the dangers of ignoring the disease . |
| 7 | She appealed for society to sit up and take notice of problems faced by young people driven from home by sexual abuse , violence or neglect . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | She planned to say nothing about her ram-raid revenge — but contacted police to confess when they appealed for witnesses . |
| 10 | POLICE have received hundreds of inquiries from victims of burglaries and car crime after they appealed for owners to identify £10,000 of stolen property . |
| 11 | He appealed for leniency on the grounds that nothing had been touched . |
| 12 | He appealed for all Muslim organisations to join the Alliance . |
| 13 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 14 | Further , he appealed for action in a field he wished to make his own , the " war on poverty " . |
| 15 | He appealed for funds to begin a translation of the Ti Pitaka : within one week the public subscribed more money than he needed . |
| 16 | Dr Graham was , as you might expect , most eloquent and , when he appealed for people to come forward and dedicate themselves , quite a few got up and went towards the screen just as though he was really there . |
| 17 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 18 | During a mass in Cape Verde on Jan. 25 , he said that the developments in Eastern Europe should not lead to the international community forgetting the plight of the Third World , while in Mali on Jan. 28 he appealed for harmony between the Christian and Moslem religions . |
| 19 | King Moshoeshoe , prior to his removal from power , had paid a two-day state visit to Zimbabwe on Oct. 28-29 , 1989 , during which he appealed for aid to help reduce Lesotho 's economic dependence on South Africa . |
| 20 | Following the Emperor 's address , Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu read a congratulatory statement on behalf of the Japanese people in which he appealed for the construction of a country which was energetic , culturally rich and dedicated to the promotion of international peace and co-operation . |
| 21 | Denouncing the demonstrators as " vandals " , and suggesting that behind them stood " dark forces " seeking to destroy Albania , he appealed for the co-operation of opposition parties in restoring calm . |
| 22 | Presenting a detailed manifesto for the country 's economic and political survival , he appealed for the creation of a " coalition government of popular trust and national concord " to run the Soviet Union , and for removal of communist influence over the judiciary , the security services , the civil service and state bodies . |
| 23 | In Oman on April 3 he appealed for intervention by the Arab League and the Organization of African Unity . |
| 24 | Later , during an address to a specially convened joint session of Congress , he appealed for US support for his radical free-market economic strategy . |
| 25 | He appealed for international support for Ukraine 's claim to an equivalent proportion of Soviet assets abroad , and criticized the inter-republican agreement of Dec. 5 on the division of debt , which Ukraine had refused to sign [ see p. 38656 ] . |
| 26 | Inspector Graham Cox , of Sussex police , said the cause of the accident was still being investigated and he appealed for any witnesses to come forward . |
| 27 | He appealed for anyone with information to contact him on . |
| 28 | He appealed for anyone who saw the three youths on the road at 8.15pm on Thursday to contact Chester CID on . |
| 29 | He appealed for carers to help the council in their consultations . |
| 30 | He appealed for members to comment by ringing Brenda on Middlesbrough 244860 or calling in at the club . |