pleas

Synonyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas. Han Fei

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power. Murray Rothbard

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God. George Whitefield

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. Robert Grosseteste

If fine speech-making, appeals to reason, or pleas for compassion had the power to move them, the terrorists would long ago have abandoned the field. Dick Cheney

[Lloyd George] said the Czar only got his deserts-he had ignored the just pleas of the peasants & had shot them down ruthlessly when they came unarmed to him in 1905. David Lloyd George