| In the pre-dawn chill, and in the midday heat, hundreds of mainly poor supplicants line up to deliver their petitions. |
| Culturally, it is hard for the managers to turn the supplicants away, especially if they come from the same village, clan or tribe. |
| Small and medium-sized enterprises are not supplicants but the core of our European economy. |
| An emaciated, rake of a lackey with crowns on his lapels kept ushering supplicants and victims into the Secretary's panelled office. |
| The Buddhist Guan Yin provided her worldly supplicants with the karma of reproductivity and bore constant witness to their agony. |
| When the police lodged a case against him recently, he and his supplicants reacted in the customary manner. |
