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Knowing the amount of wealth stolen and squandered by Obasanjo's predecessors, such as General Sani Abacha, and by the Suharto kleptocracy in Indonesia, pleas for such relief may not be welcomed easily.
A Recovery Plan for ArgentinaArgentina's president, Eduardo Duhalde, has been making impassioned pleas for international support to rebuild his country.
After all, pleas from Crimea for fraternal Russian support appear to justify Putin’s backing for the dithering, venal, and now widely despised Yanukovych.
Some actions are appropriately initiated by governments “from above,” in response to pleas by political movements and civil-society groups.
Addressing these fundamental causes of social discontent and unsustainable economic performance requires not advice and pleas to the ruling elites, but a change in China’s political reality that compels those who benefit from the status quo to surrender their privileges for the good of the country.
So it should not be surprising that the $110 million that the Ice Bucket Challenge has already raised for ALS is almost 50% more than the US government has committed to fighting Ebola, despite public-health leaders’ pleas for funds.
Many were gravely disappointed when European leaders earlier this month rejected pleas to establish a special support program for them.
I remember when this phrase was last used: in 1991, when the chairman of the European Council of Ministers visited what was still Yugoslavia and eagerly accepted the empty promises of Slobodan Milosevic and his clique that they were ready to accept European pleas for a peaceful resolution to the conflicts there.
They heard in pleas for freedom from behind the Iron Curtain not a desire to become American, but to join the remarkably successful European experiment in collective security and prosperity that emerged after World War II.
Sadly, the world’s response to pleas for donations has been slow and miserly.
American prosecutors in the Enron case have made important progress lately, with some important crooks, like Andrew Fastow, offering both guilty pleas and a willingness to testify against their former colleagues.
Given that multiple homicides in the US draw international interest, media reports highlighting a perpetrator’s mental illness or describing insanity pleas inform perceptions of mental illness worldwide.
As free Iraqis document the quarter-century nightmare of Saddam's rule, we must not forget who supported this war and who did not, who held that the international community's moral authority was enshrined in pleas for more time for the UN arms inspectors, and who marched against "regime change".
We are sorry that it did not get him anywhere and in particular that Trump, ignoring European pleas, subsequently reneged on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Pleas for action on climate change reflect fears that global warming might undermine agricultural production, especially in the developing world.
At a recent conference, US government representatives were unimpressed by European pleas to do something about the deficits – and the falling dollar that has resulted from them.
Years of studies, and the passionate pleas of patients worldwide, are finally opening the way to a technique – somatic cell nuclear transfer, also known as “therapeutic cloning” – that may bring about epochal changes for the health of us all.
Despite pleas from her family to stop, she persists, heartened by the fact that for years, not a single child in her area had been crippled by polio.
But, a decade after the company’s guilty pleas, Scott is back, this time as a “free-market” Republican politician.
The video of five police officers subduing and then killing a man, despite his pleas that he could not breathe, could have come from many countries around the world.
But the reality of mass shootings in the US – together with the teenage Parkland survivors’ powerful pleas for common-sense gun regulation – seems to have sunk in for many businesses.
As young people connect, communicate, and assert their rights, their cries are less likely to be tearful pleas for charity than defiant marches demanding justice.
In recent weeks, European countries – and apparently the IMF – have been rejecting the pleas of Nigeria's new democracy to grant it debt reduction.
Worse still, in response to recent pleas for education aid in conflict zones such as Chad, South Sudan, and Gambia, just 2% of the requested sum was raised.
One cannot simply ignore the pleas of those who are suffering.
The seductive call of extremism will not be silenced with pleas to fundamentalist imams in European mosques to stop indoctrinating young Muslim men.
But are such pleas smart investments for society?
Yemen’s looming humanitarian disaster and its people’s pleas for peace require action on three levels.
Yet, rather than defend the rights of Kashmiri citizens, India’s Supreme Court has postponed hearings on relevant pleas.
Many sympathetic attendees at my anti-Brexit rallies, especially in England’s North, explained why they would ignore my pro-Remain pleas: “After seeing how the EU treated your people, we can’t vote to stay,” many of them told me.
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