beseeching

There's one notable player, namely the one he's beseeching, who has historically been aiming at exactly that.

This despite literally any old person you'd care to ask beseeching us not to do this.

On either opposing side of a strange looking room are shifting looking walls with hands stretched out almost as if beseeching.

If the kids are being bratty, they need to learn - beseeching them to be sensible will only get you so far.

Now they have the public and politicians lobbying beseeching them to please do something...

Petitio (from peto), in the post-classical context in which the phrase arose, means assuming or postulating, but in the older classical sense means petition, request or beseeching.

That the Beloved whom one is beseeching without, also dwells within as well.

You're not going to convince C programmers simply by beseeching them.

So beseeching Putin for help only made it worse.

Ironic in a thread beseeching forgiveness for Element’s incompleteness.

Late at night, I’d prepare an unhealthy snack and sit patiently in front of the monitor to watch it, a child beseeching death.

Simply by guaranteeing pro life supreme court nominees, the Republicans have nearly every priest and pastor in the country beseeching, requesting, and/or demanding their parishioners to vote Republican.

Someone saying "so help me god" doesn't yet make it entirely clear if they are beseeching Abrahamic monotheistic God, or their specific alternative entity by title.

Can you imagine starting a business and then beseeching the SEC king David Blass to find out if your business is legal, and announcing with relief a "no action" letter?

In classical Latin, petitio meant "an attack, a blow; a requesting, beseeching; a request, petition".

Every industry loves to brag about "creating jobs" when beseeching governments but that's another way of admitting to "creating costs" (that are then passed on to buyers).