Example sentences of "have appealed for " in BNC.

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1 His party has appealed for volunteers to help Iraq in non-combat roles ; 20 gung-ho young men have stepped forward .
2 He has appealed for a halt to the fighting , warning anybody who will listen that the Arab world is headed ‘ for a period of turbulence like never before ’ .
3 President Izetbegovic , a Muslim who represents the largest ethnic group , has appealed for UN help to stave off civil war .
4 ‘ Here at home , the Queen has appealed for calm .
5 THE Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , has appealed for restraint in the wake of the Castlerock murders .
6 Talks The Scottish TUC , after talks with Dundee police , has appealed for troublemakers to stay away , and for those attending to heed union guidelines and stay within the law .
7 The site 's landowner has appealed for planning permission to extract the peat .
8 Neither the government nor the consortium has consulted the area 's Indian peoples about the concession ; at least seven Indian communities of Caribs , Arawak , Warau and Akawaio lie within the concession and the Amerindian Peoples ' Association of Guyana has appealed for the concession to be suspended .
9 The widow of a security guard who was knocked down and killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers .
10 The widow of a security guard who was killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers .
11 And a photographer whose photographic equipment was lost in the city centre last week has appealed for anyone with information on the missing items to contact the police .
12 Theft setback for student ART student Eva Woodstock , 21 , of Ullet Road , Sefton Park , has appealed for the return of six of her framed prints stolen by thieves from the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education in Woolton .
13 THE mother of a North Wales soldier serving in Bosnia has appealed for pen-pals for him and his colleagues .
14 He is also compiling a list a founder members and has appealed for photographs and Press cuttings to help his research .
15 Action is being taken to encourage closer cooperation between Stockton council and its Asnieres-sur-Seine Twinning Association , which has appealed for more support .
16 He is also compiling a list a founder members and has appealed for photographs and Press cuttings to help his research .
17 He has appealed for more vigilance by staff in shops and offices to stop ‘ sneak-in ’ thieves who steal bags , purses and wallets during the working day .
18 Darlington Dial a Ride has appealed for volunteers to help the elderly with door to door transport .
19 Police inquiries have so far failed to track down the culprits and now the victim has appealed for his heroic rescuer to come forward and help the investigation .
20 A COUNCIL poised to lose £1m in benefit aid has appealed for Parliamentary help .
21 Having appealed for prizes from local traders , 150 very attractive items ( all donated ) were displayed , and £289 was raised .
22 In talks with both President François Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl , Miyazawa was reported to have discussed economic and trade issues , but also to have appealed for support in Japan 's territorial dispute with Russia .
23 In the mid-term congressional elections ( November 1918 ) he had appealed for wide popular support for his peace policy , but the voters , mostly influenced by domestic affairs , had given his Republican opponents a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives .
24 While West Germany and the UK argued in favour of removing most restrictive legislation ( although the UK had appealed for the treatment of certain oil and gas projects as a special case , while West Germany and Spain had made similar appeals for their coal industries ) , France and Italy demanded that they be allowed to retain their rules restricting the access of foreign contractors to certain projects in these fields .
25 A strongly worded White House statement on March 7 had appealed for international support in stopping the operation of the Rabta plant .
26 Losses resulting from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident [ see pp. 34751-52 ; 34779-81 ; 35401-02 ; 35844 ; 36460-62 ; 36471 ; 37324 ] amounted to more than 10,000 million roubles , Ryzhkov told the politburo in November , while the Byelorussian authorities had appealed for an additional 10,000 million roubles for their clean-up and resettlement work .
27 President George Bush had appealed for support for the agreement in a national television broadcast on Oct. 2 in which he described the deficit as " a cancer gnawing away at our nation 's health " .
28 Following the elections , there were reports that senior religious figures , including Karrubi , had appealed for unity between opposing factions by calling for obedience to Khamenei .
29 UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , who had appealed for international aid on May 3 , made a subsequent emergency appeal on May 17 for $168,000,000 .
30 President Joseph Momoh had appealed for assistance from the United Kingdom and the United States during April , but there were no indications that either country intended to commit troops or to supply lethal equipment .
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