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Example sentences for: pleading

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Glazer is right to think that even a steady diet of ethnic special pleading won't lead to Balkanization and intergroup warfare; but he's also right to wonder if he takes "too extreme an outcome ...
Hatoum's grating nihilism always needs to revert to theories or story lines extraneous to the actual object to have any validity, with lots of special pleading on the feminist and Third World fronts.
The National Zoo is pleading with China to replace its dead pandas.
Doesn't matter: The venture capitalists are practically pleading with him to be allowed to invest in it.
Even a statement very close to the periphery can be held true in the face of recalcitrant experience by pleading hallucination or by amending certain statements of the kind called logical laws.