Word Finder - solicitations

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The action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal

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An inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime

Unlike her sister Mary, who had fallen a victim to Henry's solicitations,' Anne had no intention of being the king's mistress; she meant to be his queen, and her conduct seems to have been governed entirely by motives of ambition.

Ants invite one another to work, or ask for food from one another, by means of pats with the feelers; and they respond to the solicitations of their guest-beetles or mites, who ask for food by patting the ants with their feet.

Matilda or Mahaud, widow of Theobald Walter, escaped from John's solicitations by marrying the outlawed Fulk and following him to the forest.

He was the object of those solicitations which always beset the author whose name upon the title page assures the sale of a book.

For a time, however, he stayed his hand, but the urgent solicitations of the western powers, and, above all, his fear lest Gustavus Adolphus should supplant him as the champion of the Protestant cause, finally led him to plunge into war against the combined forces of the emperor and the League, without any adequate guarantees of co-operation from abroad.

Pitt had not been long out of office when he was solicited to return to it, and the solicitations were more than once renewed.

Some of the Vendean leaders persevered in resistance until May, and even after their submission the peace was ill observed, for the Royalists hearkened to the solicitations of the princes and their advisers.

By a stroke of the pen he suppressed Protestantism, while Pope Sixtus V., who had at first been unfavourable to the treaty of Joinville as a purely political act, though he eventually yielded to the solicitations of the League, excommunicated the two Bourbons, Henry and Cond.

In addition, be leery of Mystery Shopper organizations that advertise in the help wanted section of a newspaper or email solicitations.

As MySpace grows in popularity, the site has also been criticized for allowing businesses to create profiles for the purpose of commercial solicitations.

More children were being exposed to unwanted sexual content and cyber bullying, yet there was a decrease in the number of sexual solicitations.

Acquaintances were major players in unwanted online solicitations, which included harassment; 14 percent were from off-line friends as compared to 3 percent reported in 2000.

One of the more interesting statistics taken from the 2007 Internet safety statistics for children report was the very slight increase (1 percent) in the number of online solicitations leading to meetings in person with children.