Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] appeal for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day Ivan Cooper appealed for an end to unplanned marches ; clearly the leaders of the DCAC were aware of the large amount of good luck , as well as careful planning , which had enabled them to avoid any major violent incidents . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Narasimha Rao appealed for calm in the face of what he called a ‘ grave crisis ’ . |
| 3 | And for the benefit of those readers who are persuaded by his arguments ( and those who are not , too ) , may I refer you to a letter from Simon Kyte appealing for financial and professional help for the Humanitarian Appeal for Victims of the Yugoslav Civil War . |
| 4 | But everything went smoothly , and afterwards Mr Maginnis appealed for other volunteers to lose their locks ‘ in aid of a very worthy cause ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Reynolds appealed for restraint ‘ at this difficult time so that yet further death can be avoided ’ . |
| 6 | On May 1 the Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia appealed for international aid , saying that " the magnitude of devastation wrought by the latest cyclone is so great that Bangladesh can not face it alone " . |
| 7 | Mr Hurd appealed for a period of calm for the Royal Family . |
| 8 | As the hunt for the 20-year-old 's killer stretches into its second week , Lothian and Borders Assistant Chief Constable Tom Wood appealed for calm on the streets . |
| 9 | On April 11 Prince Sadruddin appealed for $423,000 to cover new financial requirements for an emergency programme for refugees in Turkey and Iraq . |
| 10 | Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard appealed for colleagues not to cut her training budget . |
| 11 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |
| 12 | Mrs Chamorro appealed for close international scrutiny and support for the electoral process , and for observers to be sent to Nicaragua from unions and professional groups , as well as the UN and the OAS . |
| 13 | After talks with police in Dundee , STUC general secretary Campbell Christie appealed for pickets to obey union guidelines and not to break the law or block the road . |
| 14 | International mediator Lord Owen appealed for thousands more peacekeepers to protect Muslims in United Nations-designated safe areas . |
| 15 | Det Supt Albert Kirkby appealed for the two boys seen escorting James from the shopping centre to come forward , saying they may be completely innocent . |
| 16 | Albert Schweitzer appealed for the same cause the following year , and in January 1958 Professor Linus Pauling , the Nobel prize-winning chemist , presented the signatures of more than 9,000 scientists to the United Nations secretary-general , Dag Hammarskjöld , warning the world of the genetic dangers of tests and calling for their immediate end — it was this which immediately influenced Sakharov to make the same appeal to Khrushchev . |
| 17 | As news of the riots broke President George Bush appealed for calm and promised that the Justice Department would examine the question of whether federal charges should be brought against the acquitted police officers . |
| 18 | Instead , he announced that he was going to the United Nations in New York to appeal for peace , and that in accordance with the Council 's wishes he would establish the long-awaited synod of bishops . |
| 19 | Mrs Hughes solictor Mark Bridgeman appealed for leniency . |
| 20 | During a visit to the Soviet Union on July 19-20 by EC Commission president Jacques Delors , Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev appealed for broad foreign economic co-operation which would allow the Soviet Union to adapt to a new economic system " faster and more resolutely " . |
| 21 | Even a radical writer like Olive Schreiner appealed for women 's right to work , since it would in the end prove beneficial for the race , ‘ parasitical mothers ’ , she argued , produced ‘ softened sons ’ . |
| 22 | After Thursday 's rampage by crowds which burned the Venezuelan Embassy , Col Muammar Gaddafi appealed for ‘ self-restraint ’ and ordered more troops on to the streets to protect foreign missions , Libyan radio said . |