(v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought.
(v. i.) To entreat; to beg; to prey.
(n.) Imploration.
Example Sentences:
(1) In perhaps the most telling exchange, May implored Juncker, “Let us make Brexit a success.” The commission president responded that while he didn’t want chaos, “Brexit cannot be a success.” No 10 has said it does not recognise the account.
(2) In October 2007, under the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki (the American) he gave an interview to al-Jazeera in which he implored other Muslim Americans to join him in Somalia.
(3) Michael John Bull of the British charity Street Child Liberia implores the group to take precautions.
(4) We implore the British government to go ahead with the exercise to allow us to go back to our homeland.” Many of the exiled Chagossian community now live in Crawley, West Sussex.
(5) I implore the media to temper further one-sided misrepresentations about this crucial matter that affects the wellbeing of the general public.
(6) And easyJet implores you to “ Fly greener, fly easyJet ”, saying its fleet is newer and more energy-efficient, while disregarding the need to drastically reduce flight volumes.
(7) Over 70 mental health organisations have written to prime minister Tony Abbott imploring him to maintain $300m in annual funding to mental health services that are preparing to sack staff as they face an end to commonwealth grants on 30 June.
(8) According to Beatty, the 21-year-old was imploring others to remain peaceful and return home when he was “snatched” off the street.
(9) Khan's mother said she had been shocked at how different he seemed in the video, which is entitled There's No Life Without Jihad and shows Khan, Nasser Muthana and three other men brandishing guns as they implore others to join them fighting in Syria.
(10) Snowden implored developers to spend more time and effort focusing on helping users maintain their privacy.
(11) Comey was back before Congress this week - this time in front of the House Appropriations Committee - imploring Congressmen to pass a law that would force tech companies to create a backdoor in any phone or communications tool that uses encryption.
(12) Nenes' tourist-friendly melodies can seem a world away from Kina's ceaseless quest for social and political change, an artist who implores the world's armies to swap their weapons for musical instruments.
(13) My mother always implored me and my brothers to stay united,” he said.
(14) I implore Islamic State to abide by the decisions of their own justice system.
(15) A scheduled expiration of the Patriot Act last year gave critical leverage to legislators who wanted to rein in the bulk collection of domestic phone records, and intelligence officials last month implored Congress to reauthorize the measure wholesale.
(16) The official pounds the lectern, evokes "the dream", invokes the constitution, reminds those attending of his own immigrant roots and implores them to take advantage of everything America has to offer.
(17) We expect Jason will be free to collect this award,” Hughes implored the Iranian government.
(18) Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop , has implored the United States to become more engaged in the Indo-Pacific and explicitly referred to the lack of democracy in China, saying history showed “democracy and democratic institutions are essential for nations if they are to reach their economic potential”.
(19) Arab fighters also sent a letter imploring the mojahedin to join them in a battle against US forces.
(20) This is, of course, only once you have finished lapping up the exhaustive travel guides: 48 Hours In Venice implores you to "discover hidden gems and craftsman [sic]" in between aperitifs, which presumably you'll be much in need of after all that work layering statement necklaces.
Inveigle
Definition:
(v. t.) To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Supporters of Cable were also looking to see if they have a case to take the Daily Telegraph to the police or Press Complaints Commission for using false names, addresses and subterfuge to inveigle Liberal Democrat ministers into expressing doubts about some coalition policies.
(2) In the end, nothing mattered to voters at these elections other than punishing those who would inveigle their way into power with false promises.
(3) Five years ago at the Hay literary festival, the famous feuding Hitchens brothers were inveigled by the Guardian to share a platform.
(4) One night, in a Blackpool restaurant during a Conservative party conference, Waterhouse inveigled Tory into a bet which resulted in Tory losing his trousers.
(5) It is at times like this that one feels the loss of the former Buckingham MP Robert Maxwell most keenly, in the hope he'd have inveigled himself into being in charge of the members' fund.
(6) In Mandela's later years, the fund-raising schemes he was seemingly inveigled into bordered on the tawdry – the attempts to market golden replicas of his hand; his emergence in 2003 as a talented painter, capable of dashing off entrancing views of Robben Island (with a little help from Vareenkas Paschkea, a 26-year-old art teacher and granddaughter of PW Botha); the twinning of his name with that of Cecil Rhodes, through the merging of the Rhodes Trust and the Nelson Mandela Foundation into the Mandela Rhodes Foundation in 2002.
(7) Shrewd, manipulative and charged with boundless energy, Berezovsky soon inveigled his way into the Kremlin, becoming a power behind the throne in the later years of the Yeltsin presidency.
(8) Chat shows carry pitfalls for unwary politicians: former Northern Ireland minister Peter Brooke was unwisely inveigled into singing My Darling Clementine on Ireland's The Late, Late Show on the day of the 1992 Teebane massacre in which seven people were killed.
(9) Malignant and narcissistic, they may subvert acts of kindness, honesty, integrity and trust, inveigling their way into families and organisations, into the lives of trusting people.
(10) Based on extensive interviews, it recounts in unflinching detail the creation, jockeying for position and boardroom inveigling that the messaging service has gone through.
(11) It turned out the man was an inveterate liar and conman who had inveigled his way into Howard's affections by meticulously researching her life.