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Example sentences for: pleading

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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.
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 ...
Times-Mirror chief Mark "cereal killer" Willes this week wrote a lengthy memo to his staff essentially pleading for a cease-fire in the ongoing war between the Los Angeles Times ' editorial and business staffs.
I agree with you that the proposed parent-friendly legislation is a bad idea, but not because it involves special pleading.
Pinochet peacefully relinquished power, his former opponents are pleading for his return.