1.   He made a direct appeal to middle-of-the-road voters.

2.   The police have issued a direct appeal to the witness to come forward with information.

3.   The other path that he might have followed would have involved a direct appeal to the French people to support his constitutional views.

4.   They made a direct appeal to Mr Clarke as he was paying his first visit to a police station since taking over at the Home Office.

5.   As a result, Esser and Gent waged their battle almost entirely through direct appeals to shareholders themselves.

6.   As a result, Esser and Gent waged their battle almost entirely through direct appeals to shareholders.

7.   At first, they tried direct appeals to General Enrique Cervantes, the Mexican defense secretary.

8.   At the Hartford-Springfield International Airport in Windsor Locks, he issued a direct appeal to voters.

9.   At the State Department, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made her fourth direct appeal to Serbs, the ethnic majority in the Yugoslav federation.

10.   Both Democratic candidates included a direct appeal to voters in New Hampshire, historically the site of the first primary of the quadrennial presidential contest.