Brushing aside charges that he is a "casteist," he is openly pleading for the backing of the most disadvantaged.

Mr. Sciascia is at his most trenchant when he describes how Moro, openly pleading for his life, was foiled.

That leads him and other officials to plead more and more openly for help.

He was openly pleading.

Some of the would-be warriors pleaded openly for personal instruction, but he declined them all.

The Colombians, for their part, have in recent months more openly pleaded for aid from European governments.

Internal Security (some counterrevolutionary prisoners, who were openly pleading with others to surrender to the (original) camp authorities, were put into the camp jail.)

Japanese officials maintain that the lawyers are raising irrelevant issues because all three servicemen openly pleaded guilty in court to a rape conspiracy charge.

Today, for the first time, Bayerische Landesbank, Kirch's biggest bank creditor, openly pleaded for a "German solution."

Her voice was different, no longer hard and stubborn, almost openly pleading.