1.   The appeal fell on listless ears.

2.   I hope that our appeals will not fall on deaf ears.

3.   A committee of local leaders was then formed to try to deal with Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela, but their appeals fell on deaf ears.

4.   Countless appeals have fallen on deaf ears, Meacham says.

5.   His appeal fell on deaf ears.

6.   His appeal fell far short.

7.   If that appeal falls short, the case will then go to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin.

8.   Such appeals fell completely flat with groups that tend not to fill out the forms.

9.   The appeals have fallen on deaf ears, because neither the United States nor Western Europe wants to fight for Bosnia.

10.   Those emotional appeals fall flat with his counterpart, Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.