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    appeal to


    1. She was disappointed with herself for noticing that the fact that he had kidnaped her only added to his appeal to her body's glands


    2. I’ve been promising myself a plant for the kitchen table for a while now, but the local supermarket only stocks flowering plants which don’t appeal to me


    3. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    4. The Swan Posture (Swanasana) As its name indicates, it is a graceful exercise and will, therefore, especially appeal to women readers, although its benefits also to male sufferers from backache can hardly be over-estimated


    5. He didn't know the politics involved and had to make a personal appeal to Elmore for help with that


    6. Yet she also felt the earnest appeal to her sense of integrity which he expressed so clearly


    7. The instructor was trying to appeal to the man’s


    8. die!’ said Jean, desperately trying to appeal to the boy's


    9. can appeal to and capture more customers


    10. larly religious, he still whispered an appeal to the divinities to keep her safe and to be reunited with the pair of them under the best circumstances possible

    11. A hushed appeal to the Divines quickly followed


    12. If you do these things, your earnings will soar purely because your emails constantly appeal to your subscribers


    13. Instead he urged his followers to understand that different paths were important as these would appeal to different types of people and since there is nothing in this world which is not part of the Divine Creator, all paths do lead to Home


    14. ’ He thought of trying to appeal to Raiya, but it seemed that she’d led him into a trap


    15. To prevent any oppression by those bye-laws, it was by the same act ordained, that if any seven members of the company conceived themselves aggrieved by any bye-law which should be enacted after the passing of this act, they might appeal to the board of trade and plantations (to the authority of which a committee of the privy council has now succeeded), provided such appeal was brought within twelve months after the bye-law was enacted; and that, if any seven members conceived themselves aggrieved by any bye-law which had been enacted before the passing of this act, they might bring a like appeal, provided it was within twelve months after the day on which this act was to take place


    16. When the followers of the reformation in one country, therefore, happened to differ from their brethren in another, as they had no common judge to appeal to, the dispute could never be decided; and many such disputes arose among them


    17. The city! The idea didn't appeal to her


    18. ‘Of course I had to appeal to your ego – it was the obvious way to recruit you


    19. In Games People Play, published in 1964, he popularized his ideas, although he never intended the book to appeal to the masses


    20. Yes, her healthy looks were beginning to appeal to me, I felt myself being reeled in

    21. ‖Progressive‖ parents are oftentimes likely to appeal to ―reason‖ rather than exercising proper parental authority whenever a child misbehaves


    22. Thirty years of time and effort, however, should immediately disqualify the notion of any third-party political movement in whatever manner it may appeal to ―hard-core‖ types


    23. It was an enormously deft and subtle manipulation, designed to appeal to both war hawks and doves


    24. Now the thought of being beaten about the buttocks with a tambourine, while rolling about in the snow with a naked lady, might appeal to some hot-blooded males, but such a prospect held no attractions for me


    25. He saw bodybuilding as a sign of insecurity, in the same way that wrestlers appeal to twelve-year old mentalities


    26. And now you come here, thinking I’m going to buy your bullshit appeal to patriotism and ‘ya suh, Ya suh, Missa Hall’ myself right into prison? No sir! Not this nigger! You want this done? You’re right, you came to the right man


    27. Our original intent had been for Mia to visit Eddie Ralston in jail as a visitor and appeal to him for help in understanding what Vickie had been like in the weeks before she was murdered


    28. Choose the ones that appeal to you


    29. Perhaps they would commit to a similar total spending level, but one with a different pattern of sub-category spending, maybe one with more appeal to voters on equity grounds


    30. Even after the Roman destruction in AD 70 of the primary landmark of their faith, Jewish leaders felt the urgent need periodically to appeal to Roman authority for help in resisting the growing number of proselytizers of this “false faith

    31. We concluded this presentation with a fort appeal to the sponsors or social investors: “Invest in our Project, because it is safe and efficient


    32. Believe me after thirteen Buds or so that solution had great appeal to me


    33. Third of all, the home page (Index page) should appeal to


    34. When a restaurant offers menus in English to Spanish to Japanese to Swahili (well maybe not, but I think I’ve made the point), you can’t help but feel the restaurant is trying to appeal to the masses! When restaurants do this, the food on offer is usually generic concoctions, trying to cater to foreign tastebuds


    35. 38 And it shall come to pass at the self-same time, so that a change of times shall manifestly appeal to


    36. 27 Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to


    37. of this physical body has lost its appeal to me


    38. Chancellor of the Exchequer in Great Britain during the Thatcher years, Nigel Lawson, in his book An Appeal to Reason A Cool Look at Global Warming takes the open approach of accepting the worst of the warming predictions, and then asks some questions


    39. ” Lawson confesses that he could write his book Appeal to Reason without suffering similar treatment only when his own career had been completed


    40. State and federal legislation that happened not to appeal to the economic or social views of a majority of Justices was sacrificed in mechanical application of the Court’s inventions

    41. And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and went many ways, and forsook that their house, and the Lord of the sheep called some from among the sheep and sent them to the sheep, but the sheep began to kill them; And one of them was saved and was not killed, and it sped away and cried aloud over the sheep; and they sought to kill it, but the Lord of the sheep saved it from the sheep, and brought it up to me, and caused it to dwell there; And many other sheep He sent to those sheep to testify to them and lament over them; And after that I saw that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely, and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of the sheep how He wrought much slaughter among them in their herds until those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place; And He gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts, and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep; And I saw that He forsook that their house and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand of all the wild beasts; And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to the Lord of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they were devoured by all the wild beasts; But He remained unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts; And He called seventy shepherds, and throw those sheep to those who they might pasture them, and He spoke to the shepherds and their companions: 'Let each individual of you pasture the sheep from now onwards, and everything that I shall command you that do you; And I will deliver them over to you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are to be destroyed and them you destroy; And he gave over to them those sheep; And He called another and spoke to him: 'Observe and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded them; And every excess and the destruction which will be wrought through the shepherds, record namely how many they destroy according to my command, and how many according to their own caprice: record against every individual shepherd all the destruction he effects; And read out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether or not they abide by my command which I have commanded them; But they shall not know it, and you shall not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me


    42. “Drinking from a bottle never had any appeal to me,” he said, as


    43. The prospect of 14-hour days and eight on Saturday did not appeal to me, not just because of cutting into drinking time


    44. This would appeal to most people as a fair response


    45. I won 29 out of 30, including a successful appeal to the AZ Supreme Court


    46. Karl Marx extolled the virtues of Socialism that was much more appeal to the masses than religion


    47. would appeal to empirical memories and previously learned descriptions of objects, yet neither


    48. appeal to the supposed real color of the room


    49. generally accepted that music has a high appeal to the mind and


    50. Bits appeal to us ontologically as a way of atomizing the Platonic














































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    Synonyms for "appeal to"

    attract invite entice tempt intrigue engage fascinate