1.   As an American, aside from Sally Struthers and her tearful appeals to help kids, suffering was a remote concept to me.

2.   Many a male lobbyist knows the sinking feeling McLennan described, watching a witness make a tearful appeal for a bill she opposes.

3.   In a tearful appeal, she begged Al-Luhaybi to spare her.

4.   In tearful appeals, they urged Clinton to work for the release of their fathers.

5.   She made several tearful appeals on national television for the return of the children before confessing nine days later that she had drowned them.

6.   She made several tearful TV appeals for the return of the children before confessing to authorities nine days later that she had drowned them.

7.   Friendly South Korean scholars, called as witnesses, made a tearful appeal, saying he had shown signs of converting from communism during his investigation.