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Example sentences for: entreaties

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Newsweek 's "The Mystery of Prayer" reports that 87 percent of Americans believe God answers their entreaties.
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.
If you have no interest in children, or these particular children, decline the entreaties ...
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.
JQA didn't need his father's entreaties to work hard.