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Cooley appeared in person in May to appeal that decision, but his entreaty was rebuffed.
What is important is that we hold a conscious intention for the wellbeing of another, whether it's an entreaty to God or a loving feeling.
There was a helpless entreaty in his voice, as though he were afraid that she might see him and retrace her steps.
It is no longer a question of an imperative prayer, but of an entreaty or a supplication.
This urgent entreaty comes across to me from the conclusions of the Fava report and is the political point that I believe needs to be emphasised.
His entreaty is hard to swallow, given the biographical kernels in all of his plays, but easy to take, given the unguarded, imploring nature of his gaze.
Early last year I made an entreaty for the digitization of several great LPs, mostly from the 80s, that still hadn't made it to CD for whatever reason.
What is needed is not primarily entreaty, urging, or exhortation, but understanding help.
Upon his entreaty, the Cistercian abbey Cherlieu in Burgundy delegated abbot Gerhard with 12 monks and some brothers.
When the home crowd chanted Rooney's name in the first half it was an entreaty to make a difference rather a celebration of his efforts.
But Bodhidharma's answer to Shen-kuang's tearfully earnest entreaty was colder than ice.
Henceforth no effort of mine,no piteous cry or agonized entreaty, would make them even look at me.
His entreaty was apparently answered as the pitch rapidly drained and became a lot more playable.
It sought to free itself, but he was strong in his entreaty, and detained it.
If they made their market power count by purchasing more economical cars, it would not only lend credibility to their entreaty to 'preserve creation' but also signal a radical change in outlook.
Her e-mails combine mad fury, misplaced desire and desperate entreaty.
Now, his friends attest, he is pondering a comeback. A rumble of entreaty among a few supporters has become a boisterous campaign to persuade him to run against the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in next June's poll.
I would, however, make one entreaty to the Commissioner and to all of us: it is important that a balance is found, for a major political reason apart from anything else.
There are various interpretations of why their entreaty did not progress, but we suggest that the government redouble its efforts with Brazil and MERCOSUR in this respect.
Although the Syrian authorities did not respond positively to Minister Graham's entreaty, it was important nonetheless that a senior government minister clearly and firmly state Canada's position to the Syrians.
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During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, aloud and in silent tears, to the one who had the power to save him out of death, and he submitted so humbly that his prayer was heard.
Rather, they are more like appeals to God, employing a strongly metaphorical vocabulary to express universal themes such as the glorification of God, thankfulness, entreaty, lamentation, and repentance.
Connie, for her part, whenever it became clear that the boys were going off to be boys, knew enough to fall back and dematerialize without reproach or entreaty.
This quality characterizes other works from 1944 such as the Sun Figures that, with their bright cheerfulness, can be read as a premonition of, or even an entreaty for, the end of war and thus of redemption.
Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of.
I am unwont to press my favours, or to deal with priests who require entreaty, when gifts are held out to them.
Examples from Classical Literature
At prayers morning and evening, it was pitiful to observe her glance of entreaty and her downfallen eyelashes.
That was my mother's position, and neither argument nor entreaty could move her from it.
We dont beleave that law ever kept a man sober long, but we do beleave that entreaty and example haz.
She clasped her hands, suddenly carrying her urgency to plaintive entreaty.
It is always pleasant to do on entreaty what we might be driven to do unasked.
She plucked at cleek's sleeve and looked up at him in an agony of entreaty.
The voices of men, one in entreaty, one in expostulation, came from the box.
She then went away, at her friend's entreaty, after emptying her purse in my nurse's hands.
There was malignance, there was red anger, but there was entreaty, the cry of a slave to a master.
The expression of his face rapidly changed from a look of entreaty to that of ferociousness.
It takes its kingdom with entreaty, and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind.
Protesting that I had strong reasons to believe so, I renewed my entreaty.
How could I resist a request, perhaps an entreaty, from her?
No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
I could not see her face in the he darkness, but her arms were thrown out in an attitude of entreaty.
A most earnest, pressing, and emphatic entreaty, addressed to you in the most pathetic tones of the voice so dear to you, that you well remember.
You think, perhaps, I shall pursue you with objurgation or entreaty.
She took her seat, and held forth her arms for her sister, with an air of entreaty and love that even the Huron could not deny.
The porter did as he was bid, but as he led the dog to Zobeida it uttered piercing howls, and gazed up at her with looks of entreaty.
Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.
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Her husband and children were her entire world, and in these she ruled more by entreaty and persuasion than by command or argument.
He did not mind the entreaty, but the tone with its delicate note of pathos was like a reproach.
The words were those of entreaty, but the voice was that of authority.
What you must read unmoved by the pity too far for entreaty.
His level glance met Sir Richard's in earnestness and entreaty.
It was an entreaty that she might be permitted to come and see me.
Newman was going to leave him abruptly, when a ray of entreaty appeared to disengage itself from the old man's misty gaze.
He could only remember stoutly resisting her entreaty that he should await the returning family and have high tea with them before he drove home.
Her entreaty was so earnest, that the boy had not the heart to stay there.
The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty.
The dwarf, at my entreaty, had no other punishment than a sound whipping.
He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence.
Only the silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly pierced by one of his peculiar whispers, now harsh with command, now soft with entreaty.
Sir Walter, however, would choose his own means, and at last wrote a very fine letter of ample explanation, regret, and entreaty, to his right honourable cousin.
Peggotty made no such retort, only answering with another entreaty to Mrs.
