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Example sentences for: pleading

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Falwell constantly invokes "academic freedom," pleading that schools should "teach both [evolution and creationism] as theories, and trust the children with their parents to arrive at their own conclusions."
Writings by the imprisoned Chinese political activist are granted a place "among the classics of the 20 th century literature of dissent, alongside the writings of figures like Vaclav Havel, Vladmir Bukovsky and Adam Michnik" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The collection mainly consists of letters, written from prison to Chinese leaders, pleading the case for democracy.
Will she pursue him, pleading, weeping, trying to explain that it was God who threw that bottle out of the sea and into her path?
But that's a better argument against the grab bag of breaks that Clinton is likely to propose (which will encourage special pleading) than it is against sweeping reform.
Pinochet peacefully relinquished power, his former opponents are pleading for his return.