cap in-hand in a sentence

1. we have to go cap in hand begging for funds

2. The collapse in the market for new ships has forced Rongsheng to go cap in hand to the government for a bail-out.

3. Not because we've made so much, but because it would be criminally negligent if we ever had to go back cap in hand."

4. NEW YORK –­ Early this month, Kyrgyzstan’s president Kurmanbek Bakiyev went cap in hand to Moscow to ask for financial aid.

5. They enjoy being seen as a person of substance and status, and prefer to be in a position to help others rather than approaching them cap in hand.

6. Following a costly series of wars over the last 50 years, English Government officials go, cap in hand, to the money changers for loans necessary to pursue their political purposes.

7. The representatives of this small federative republic who, cap in hand, go begging at the entrances of the two warring camps, can well understand the limited measure of independence and neutrality possible for a nation which cannot command some millions of bayonets.