Words similar to entreaties
Example sentences for: entreaties
How can you use “entreaties” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
And although these papers and the LAT all communicate the same basic facts about yesterday's events--that Arafat responded to Albright's demands by promising full cooperation in the fight against anti-Israeli terrorism and that Netanyahu was very cool toward her entreaties to him to cease land confiscations, home demolitions, settlement building, confiscation of IDs and the embargoing of tax revenues belonging to the Palestinian authority--their headlines differ in what they emphasize.
Supreme Court rejected these entreaties, saying, variously, that 1) Breard had failed to protest in state courts; 2) access to a consular official would probably not have changed his insistence on pleading innocence (against his lawyers' advice); 3) the murder was especially vicious; 4) the case (complete with DNA tests and the defendant's confession) was open-and-shut; and 5) an apology to Paraguay would suffice.
For example, some years ago the xerography pioneer took out half-page ads in the New York Times to remind us that Xerox is a trademark to be used only as a proper noun, as in Xerox machine , or a proper adjective, as in Xerox copy . In either case, warned the ad, we must capitalize Xerox . Despite such entreaties, the word xerox seems to have become generic, if not according to the courts, then at least according to current American usage, where it occurs freely as noun, adjective, and even verb, with or without capitalization.
He states that he has been influenced by the entreaties of Jesse Ventura and further convinced of the appropriateness of running by the tepid response among Republican candidates to Pat Buchanan's Hitler remarks.
Franco kept Spain out of World War II, despite Hitler’s entreaties to the contrary.
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