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Example sentences for: entreaties

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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.
Newsweek 's "The Mystery of Prayer" reports that 87 percent of Americans believe God answers their entreaties.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich has spurned Democratic entreaties to offer Clinton a plea bargain short of impeachment.
I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for These States--I press with slow rude muscle, I brace myself effectually--I listen to no entreaties, I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me, Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
If you have no interest in children, or these particular children, decline the entreaties ...