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Example sentences for: pleading

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The protesters in Seattle, it said in an editorial, were pleading for "a new world order, one of an open world but of a world which isn't, under any circumstances, reduced to mere merchandise."
At that point, we will control the industry and be able to extract the rich monopoly profits waiting to be had from poetry, book reviews, essays pleading for entitlement reform, explanations of developments in foreign countries, and similar product lines.
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.
Supreme Court rejected these entreaties, saying, variously, that 1) Breard had failed to protest in state courts; 2) access to a consular official would probably not have changed his insistence on pleading innocence (against his lawyers' advice); 3) the murder was especially vicious; 4) the case (complete with DNA tests and the defendant's confession) was open-and-shut; and 5) an apology to Paraguay would suffice.
such hopeless, astonished pleading, such overwhelmed, untempered pity for the self dying;