foreign plea

"It's a rare day that Cuba responds to foreign pleas about political prisoners."

Foreign pleas for explanations brought few.

The younger and college-educated were more likely to call the Afghanistan intervention a failure, and less inclined to support sending Soviet troops in response to a foreign plea.

The results are now on display: the growing ascendancy of Prime Minister Li Peng, a cautious bureaucrat; the rebuffs to domestic and foreign pleas for greater political liberty; the move back toward centralized economic control.

In December 2008 a foreign plea agreement by the German corporation Siemens identified by their initials and titles several high level officials in former governments as having accepted multimillion dollar bribes in the controversial procurement of a national identification card system.