plead

When I was there they were pleading for help.
Lorsque j'étais sur place, ils nous suppliaient de les aider.
He urged armed resistance to England whereas others were pleading for compromise.
Il a exhorté la résistance armée à l'Angleterre alors que d'autres plaidaient pour le compromis.
Kamal Abwani, whose cause we were pleading then, is still in jail, although in March the UN investigation team reached the conclusion that it had been an arbitrary arrest.
Kamal Al-Abwani, dont nous plaidions alors la cause, est toujours en prison, bien qu'en mars l'équipe d'enquêteurs des Nations Unies soit arrivée à la conclusion qu'il avait été arrêté de façon arbitraire.
The other souls were pleading with her to allow me to say.
Les autres âmes l’imploraient de m’autoriser à rester.
Trade, rather than hand-outs, allows poor nations to help themselves, as the Indonesians were pleading after the tsunami.
C’est le commerce, plutôt que les coups de main ponctuels, qui permettent aux nations pauvres de s’aider elles-mêmes, comme l’affirmaient les Indonésiens après le tsunami.
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