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Example sentences for: pleading

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Plus, there is something uncomfortable about male admissions of inadequacy; it's like pleading guilty to a burglary so you won't get nailed for a murder.
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.
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.
Pinochet peacefully relinquished power, his former opponents are pleading for his return.
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.