(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”.
Supplication
Definition:
(n.) The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.
(n.) A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.
(n.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then suddenly a horrible drought comes along, and they can’t figure out why they can’t supplicate their gods adequately to prevent it.” It didn’t help that Tikal’s water management system had become increasingly reliant on collecting rainwater in reservoirs, at the cost of groundwater.
(2) In those times the few humans who passed that way came as supplicants, filled with a sense of awe and magic.
(3) She added: “It makes you wonder: what does Putin have on Trump that could make Trump act like a supplicant on the international stage?
(4) And my mind turned again to Michael Gove , who, to put their relationship in terms of Gove’s beloved Dennis Wheatley, is the supplicant Simon Aron to Boris’s satanic Mocata, their joint prize the mummified phallus of Conservative party power.
(5) Young people are reduced to being supplicants,” he says.
(6) With minimal media interest, the US African Command (Africom) has deployed troops to 35 African countries, establishing a familiar network of authoritarian supplicants eager for bribes and armaments.
(7) Supplicant states don’t probe too deeply into delicacies, such as where profits are actually earned, and then set out what it is deemed reasonable for a corporate to pay in so-called “letters of comfort”.
(8) So Daniel Blake is not a supplicant, he’s a man of dignity.” First thing in the morning, I feel about 85.
(9) Unfavourable factors for long-term course were: low intellectual capacity (W), hysteroid personality (C), syntonic personality (W), asthenic personality, sensitivity to praise (C), tendency to feel under observation (W), and some symptoms during the index period: tendency to seclusion (C), ideas of reference (C), dryness of mouth (C), difficulty in falling asleep (C), dreamlike feeling (C), supplicating attitude (C).
(10) I deliberately used archaic language for the chorus: "banish" rather than "drive out" and "we pray thee", a supplication not in the original.
(11) If this chancellor has a vision, it’s one of Britain supplicating before authoritarian regimes while our high-technology renewables industry goes to the wall.” A spokesman for the prime minister declined to elaborate on why the Saudi trip cost so much more than other overseas trips.
(12) Villagers scramble towards the aircraft, arms aloft in supplication and eyes scrunched against the tornado whipped up by the rotor blades.
(13) Andreotti, who had interceded on behalf of endless supplicants like a true padrino (godfather), did not use his power to pursue personal wealth or to enhance the prospects of his closest relatives.
(14) We're like sovereign and supplicant, but Perlman, at once bearish and boyish, remains a plain-spoken kid from the northern end of Manhattan, not anxious to lord it up or sound too clever.
(15) And that switch from buyer to seller, from potentate to supplicant, is notoriously difficult.
(16) A trio of musicians - accordion, bajo sexto and double bass - drift in and launch into one of the many corridos written about the narco-saint - another offering from a grateful supplicant.
(17) Couples go out for dinner and spend the entire time with their heads bent in silent supplication to the glowing god.
(18) It looks to outsiders as if Ireland has received only a lukewarm embrace from its EU partners, who have chosen to send a message to other would-be supplicants that it's better to stay away.
(19) Yet, consider the mainstream supplication that welcomed the Wikileaks editorial.
(20) What degree of transparency and accountability can we, as supplicants, enforce on our new partner?