Example sentences of "he appealed to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appealed to the Portuguese for help , but died and was succeeded by his only surviving son , Claudius , before a Portuguese force under Christopher , son of the famous Vasco da Gama , arrived . |
| 2 | He appealed to the Chancellor to ‘ start fighting inflation with more flexible , more imaginative measures than ever rising interest rates ’ . |
| 3 | But he appealed to the students to contain their passion and to show a measure of reason . |
| 4 | In sharp contrast to his ‘ enthusiasm ’ of 1792 , in 1806 Fox introduced the abolition resolution by reminding the Commons what was owed to its own reputation after its 1792 decision for gradual abolition was not carried through ; he appealed to the memory of Pitt and the arguments of Burke ; he looked to parliament to speak for the nation on ‘ a question in which party feelings , arising out of political connections , can have no share ’ . |
| 5 | He appealed to the army , still largely loyal to the Shah . |
| 6 | Mr Johnson said that both families had been devastated by the killings and he appealed to the public : ‘ If you have any information , however small , please help us . |
| 7 | He appealed to the pseudo-science of ‘ phrenology ’ , which had been built around the assumption that the shape of the brain determined a person 's character . |
| 8 | On Nov. 1 Lukanov threatened to resign unless there was all-party support for the reforms ; subsequently describing the political mood in Bulgaria as " masochistic " , he appealed to the UDF to rise above party politics , and on Nov. 9 he reportedly offered to suspend his membership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) in exchange for the UDF 's joining a coalition government . |
| 9 | He appealed to the Court of Appeal on various grounds , but the only ground pursued was that the prosecution on the second indictment was in contravention of section 20(8) of the Constitution of Jamaica which provides , so far as relevant : |
| 10 | Then , on the anniversary of the July 1936 rising , he appealed to the Captains-General for unity in view of an international masonic plot which would destroy Spain . |
| 11 | With opinion polls still pointing to a hung Parliament , he appealed to the electorate to ‘ wake up ’ , before it was too late , to the dangers posed by Scottish devolution and other proposed constitutional changes , including proportional representation . |
| 12 | 'How did you get to know her ? ’ 'She turned up , did n't she , at one of our soirees ? ’ he appealed to the group . |
| 13 | On 7 November , he appealed to the voters to support Gaullist candidates . |
| 14 | In the meantime , he appealed to the republics to declare a moratorium " on decisions which give rise to arguments over the issue of competence " , complaining that the alternative was incurable paralysis . |
| 15 | When he urged the pieds noirs to give up integration , when he ordered the army to remain loyal , when he appealed to the FLN to lay down their arms and negotiate , he evoked not just the powers and responsibilities of his office but the confidence that they should have in the person of himself , General de Gaulle . |
| 16 | He appealed to the sergeant . |