Ministers, though, want fundamentally to change the culture of councils totting up their needs, and sending a begging letter to central government to pay the bills.

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As you know, the Senate Democrats, Harry Reid sent you a letter begging you, essentially, to take -- consider some sort of executive action on this debt ceiling issue.

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It includes a letter from Ms. Berger, begging for her life.

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In August 2009, he wrote a letter to his friend Alex Acevedo, begging him to write back with news.

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He had read in the Houston Chronicle a letter Isgur's mother had written, begging someone to give her son a second chance.

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In 1985, primary school students sent a letter to the mayor of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, begging him to clean up the Fu and Nan Rivers that encircle the city.

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