plea for aid

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• plea — noun 1) a plea for aid Syn: appeal, entreaty, supplication, petition, request, call, suit, solicitation 2) her plea of a headache was unconvincing Syn: claim, explanation, defense, j …   Thesaurus of popular words

• Abraham Lincoln: A Plea for Compensated Emancipation — ▪ Primary Source              Compensated emancipation was a scheme to allow the government to free the slaves and reimburse slave owners. The Republican platform of 1860 recognized it as a desirable solution to the slavery issue. President… …   Universalium

• plea — 01. Aid workers have issued a [plea] for food and blankets to help survivors of the earthquake. 02. The defendant [pleaded] not guilty to the charge of murder. 03. I [pleaded] with my father for months to let me come to Ireland to study English.… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Aid to the Church in Need — ( Kirche in Not in German, Aiuto alla Chiesa che Soffre in Italian) describes itself as an international pastoral aid organization of the Catholic Church, which yearly offers financial support to more than 8,000 projects worldwide. We try to help …   Wikipedia

• aid-prayer — A prayer or demand that other parties shall be joined in the action and help defend his title, which a defendant tenant may make in a real action as a preliminary step before putting in his plea. He may thus call for assistance because of the… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• aid prayer — In English practice, a proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainderman, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension …   Black's law dictionary

• aid prayer — In English practice, a proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainderman, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension …   Black's law dictionary

• United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East — (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency, providing education, health care, social services and emergency aid to over four million Palestinian refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.It …   Wikipedia

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation in Cyprus — Established on December 14 1950, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary… …   Wikipedia

• Oil-for-Food Programme — The Oil for Food Programme (OFF), established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986)[1] was established with the stated intent to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and… …   Wikipedia

• Measure for Measure — Facsimile of the title page of Measure for Measure from the First Folio, published in 1623 Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was (and continues to be) classified as comedy, but …   Wikipedia