On Twitter, some Texas and Oklahoma residents were beseeching followers to do a rain dance for the parched states.

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As we flew over a thunderstorm near Omaha we heard airline pilots on the radio beseeching air traffic controllers for higher altitudes.

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As one travels along the snaking road that leads to the temple, shopkeepers outside approach beseeching visitors to buy offerings like coconuts and sweets.

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Or take the recent HHS disclosure that Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been beseeching the industries she regulates like insurers, hospitals and drug makers for "independent" donations.

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Lest anything slip through, every HCA site displays posters and literature beseeching employees to report a sweeping range of infractions to a supervisor or to call the 24-hour ethics hotline (see box, p. 68).

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Governors across the nation are increasingly beseeching Washington for assistance but their entreaties are likely to go unanswered by an administration focused on the midterm elections and fearful of an electorate weary of new spending initiatives.

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It should be recalled that the Saudis so feared the rise of a Muslim Brotherhood-ruled Egypt that in February 2011, when US President Barack Obama was publicly ordering then-president Hosni Mubarak to abdicate power immediately, Saudi leaders were beseeching him to defy Obama.

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With the second new ball only a few overs old, Ishant Sharma bowled a hostile morning spell for the second day in succession - and was soon beseeching umpire Asad Rauf for an lbw decision against Watson which was rightly turned down for height.

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