"appeal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After repeating this several times, he turned back to face the crowd again and shrugged, lifting his hands in a gesture of futile appeal.
- His head had been shaved of the shoulder-wide Afro hairstyle he had the day before when he appeared at the state Pardon Board in a futile appeal.
- Additionally Mugabe had started to appoint with judges sympathetic to the government, making any judicial appeal futile.
- Chen Xi's wife, Zhang Qunxuan, told reporters that her husband was innocent, but would not launch a "futile" appeal against his conviction.
- Having ignored these futile appeals for at least a decade, Congress will predictably ignore them in the future.
- The Vatican's repeated calls that it do so did not succeed, and even the hand on the 17th-century pope's statue seemed to extend in a frozen and futile appeal.
- Bernardo attempts a futile last-minute appeal to the Pope to have mercy on his family.
- Like Ament, Khan realized, Seven could do little more than make a futile appeal to the vengeful superman's unheeding conscience.
- On the night before they were due to enter Sarang, Mirza Saeed made another futile appeal to the pilgrims.
- It is touching to read Abigail Adams's futile appeal to her husband John, in a 1775 letter, as affairs of the nascent state preoccupied him.
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