(n.) The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
(2) Arsenal’s supporters had made their feelings clear after watching attacks fizzle out at Leicester on Sunday, with entreaties to sign a striker.
(3) For 10 months, with the blessing of President Barack Obama, the agency has fought to conceal vast amounts of the report from the public, with an entreaty to Feinstein from secretary of state John Kerry occurring as recently as Friday.
(4) And after months of private entreaties to clarify a public comment made by NSA director Keith Alexander in 2012, Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, if the NSA was collecting data on millions of Americans.
(5) I am determined that my government, if it continues after tomorrow, will learn from this experience, will be different and better this year than we were in every respect last year.” Despite Malcolm Turnbull refusing entreaties from his supporters to formally declare his candidacy on Sunday, sources claimed the spill motion would get 30 or more votes in the federal Liberal party room.
(6) Because while misspelled threats or entreaties for me to get back in the kitchen are certainly easy to mock, the disdain with which they’re employed is not very funny.
(7) Its pages are filled with haiku poetry, articles on the innocent pursuit of angling and entreaties to its readers to perform good works.
(8) The men were allegedly assisted by the same smuggler organisation behind the Paris attacks.” During the period of questions Dutton was asked why John Howard could soften the “Pacific Solution” and bring people held offshore back to Australia in the mid 2000s – but the Turnbull government was resisting current entreaties to bring people out of what is proving to be indefinite detention.
(9) He had heard every kind of entreaty and he had witnessed plenty of genuine hardship, he told me as he led the way to an upstairs interview room.
(10) Lofgren suggested that a House scorned over the USA Freedom Act would not be receptive to FBI entreaties to renew its “extraordinary powers” that “many believe [are] unconstitutional”.
(11) His about-turn seems to have been partly based on the sense that the investigation was coming closer to his office, partly by an attempt to retain a modicum of control by announcing he would step down in six to nine months’ time, and partly by the entreaties of those close to him who were telling him this was a crisis of a different magnitude to those he had experienced in the past.
(12) But perhaps it’ll take more than entreaties to Capitol Hill to encourage the FCC to rule in favor of open internet access by reclassifying the ISPs as public utilities.
(13) Ignoring my entreaties that you really didn’t need to dress up to go to a gig, my daughter had her hair tied up with tinsel, her best party dress on and a purple sequined stole.
(14) Wenger has long resisted entreaties to buy a world-class centre-forward and instead reiterated his faith in Danny Welbeck, the other scorer.
(15) "I've never had so many emails expressing delight and gratitude for our advance reading proofs – as well as entreaties for more as everyone seems to have a friend or colleague who is desperate to read it as soon as possible.
(16) A memo circulated in May 1980 to senior ministers across Whitehall by Clive Whitmore, the principal private secretary at No 10, mingled entreaties with the firm smack of authority.
(17) But the insurer was ignoring entreaties to provide its assurances in writing.
(18) Despite western and UN entreaties, Riyadh has also failed to disburse any of the $274m it promised in funding for humanitarian relief.
(19) It’s also unclear whether the PKK’s more hard-line elements, despite the entreaties of HDP politicians, will curb their violent insurgency.
(20) It was suggested to the Guardian that opponents of offshore processing needed to allow the government a “face-saving” option to close the camps while still ostensibly retaining its policy, heeding the advice of Sun Tzu who counselled leaving opponents a way to escape, usually quoted as an entreaty to “build your opponents a golden bridge to retreat across”.
Invocation
Definition:
(n.) The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.
(n.) A call or summons; especially, a judicial call, demand, or order; as, the invocation of papers or evidence into court.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
(2) King was 16th on an official programme that included the national anthem, the invocation, a prayer, a tribute to women, two sets of songs and nine other speakers.
(3) Trump scored a powerful rhetorical point when he described watching the Twin Towers collapse – “We saw death and the smell of death was in the air for months,” he said – which left Cruz left awkwardly applauding Trump’s invocation of the terrorist attack and those who died as the New Yorker went on to describe Cruz’s comments as insulting.
(4) I had pins and needles waiting to hear from everyone.” Flags flew at at half-staff and fast-food restaurants joined churches in posting invocations to pray for this community of 22,000 people.
(5) "It started out with an invocation for whales, 'cause the whales are right there in the harbour.
(6) The Meerut rally was a success, he indicates, making an odd gesture, part invocation, part assertion, with a hand pointing heavenwards.
(7) Nevertheless, you can still detect traces of that early history in the ACL’s persistent invocation of “religious freedom” when making its case against same-sex marriage.
(8) There is still time between now and the invocation of article 50 in March 2017 to galvanise a common effort across all the polities of these islands to look for a third way between hard Brexit and no Brexit.
(9) It's true of Hitchens' various grotesque invocations of Islam to justify violence, including advocating cluster bombs because "if they're bearing a Koran over their heart, it'll go straight through that, too".
(10) Invocation of the rule could lead to bizarre spectacles, as the rule bars senators from "divulging the information with respect to which the vote is being taken."
(11) Twelve manipulation tactics were identified through separate factor analyses of two instruments based on different data sources: Charm, Reason, Coercion, Silent Treatment, Debasement, and Regression (replicating Buss et al., 1987), and Responsibility Invocation, Reciprocity, Monetary Reward, Pleasure Induction, Social Comparison, and Hardball (an amalgam of threats, lies, and violence).
(12) The logical use of contrast agents should involve the deliberate invocation of one or more of these mechanisms coupled with the appropriate technique of administration.
(13) At various points in the video, victims of terror attempt to reclaim the bomber’s religious invocations – when he declares “there is no god but Allah”, a man carrying a child on a bus retorts: “You who comes in the name of death, he is the creator of life.” When the bomber says “God is greater”, a schoolteacher responds: “Than those who obey without contemplation.” As the bomber flees, the victims are joined by Hussein al-Jasmi, an Emirati pop star, in a chorus urging people to respond to anger with kindness, and violence with mercy.
(14) The anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has waded into controversy over President Obama’s attempt to bypass Congress on gun control , with an invocation of Star Wars’ evil empire.
(15) The later cognitive P100 and N140 reflect the invocation of distinct processors in conjunction with the behavioral use of the sensory input.
(16) The “or else” hovering behind EC vice-president Frans Timmermans’ admonishments is the eventual invocation of article 7 of the EU treaty and the withdrawal of Poland’s voting rights.
(17) In its verdict on Monday, Efsa said that much of the scientific evidence in France's new submission in January had already been included in a previous 2008 submission to the agency, which concluded at the time "that no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment, was provided that would justify the invocation of a safeguard clause [ban]".
(18) As we look ahead to the likely timetable for the next few years, and with the invocation of article 50 coming up shortly, it is obvious that it will be best if the top team in situ at the time that article 50 is invoked remains there till the end of the process and can also see through the negotiations for any new deal between the UK and the EU27 [the other European Union member states].
(19) He goes after its baffling, mellifluous names – Smintheus, Agyieus, Platanistius, Theoxenius – his pencil languidly scratches, in a whimsical mock-invocation of Apollo from 1975.
(20) Almost every schoolchild of the 1960s was brought up on that speech, with its key invocation, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.