How To Use Plead In A Sentence

He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
Just getting anyone in the area to tell the platoon where the former mukhtar lived had taken three months of pleading, and after several false leads that day, the soldiers had found him. The Coming Normalcy?
A teenager, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward.
So they plead with her to give them a taste of the flavored milk.

Kimmel pleaded with the network to get this done.
The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
He intends to plead not guilty, according to his lawyer, Plato Cacheris, who characterized his client as emotionally distraught.
The City had done a serious effort to take out beggars from the streets, yet the very cold streets were lined with immobile figures frozen in submissive, pleading positions. Why Does Homelessness Persist in Rich Liberal Cities?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Secondly, he submitted that the case had never been pleaded or presented in the court below as one falling within the exceptional category, nor did the judge purport to find that it did.
She pleaded guilty to offering to supply heroin to undercover police officers.
The vast majority of the defendants pleaded not guilty and were released on bail with strict conditions.
She said: ‘I was panicking, fretting, crying and pleading with him to give me back my daughter.’
Think of the good done - the minimum wages, the new deals and other sops to middle class consciences, they plead.
But the various cities and counties have continued to plead poverty in the hope of receiving aid from central government.
He had pleaded guilty in 1987 to tax evasion and the violation of securities laws.
Council, and perhaps to implead me on the one part, and a presiding elder and conference on the other. Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
He was suspended from working for a year and avoided a jail term after his barrister pleaded that his career was in ruins. Times, Sunday Times
Their view is that many of the birds and animals are exclusive to the river and its banks, so they are pleading with Roads Service to move the road northwards, away from the river.
No bank executives should be allowed to plead ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
And a man who ran alongside a tow truck, pleading to get his vehicle back after it was towed from a fire lane, died when he slipped and was run over by the truck and then his own Chevrolet Suburban. Boing Boing: July 24, 2005 - July 30, 2005 Archives
Her lawyer tried to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but that was rejected.
No bank executives should be allowed to plead ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
So there was no voice strong enough to plead their case.
He was encouraged to plead guilty to the lesser offence.
Wu continues to plead not guilty to other charges of embezzlement and bribery.
He pleaded not guilty to all the charges and attacked the constitutional legitimacy of the military regime.
He was one of three loyalists who went to Downing Street to plead with her to stay on.
Vice Chancellor Donald Parsons , who ordered the unsealing, said Mr. Hurd faced "irreparable harm" if the letter was made public before he had a chance to plead his case before the Delaware Supreme Court. Fight Over Hurd Letter Drags On
Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to plead for US assistance.
Erica pleaded, tears streaming from her closed eyes, making thin watery tracks down her pale cheeks.
So that they shall not be bound to come before the Iustices aforesaid, except any of the same Barons doe implead any man, or if any man be impleaded. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.
Neither does it follow, that, on the supposition of the satisfaction pleaded for, the freedom, pardon, or acquitment of the person originally guilty and liable to punishment must immediately and “ipso facto” ensue. A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
The couple, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the boys, had pleaded guilty in January to the three charges.
Every morning Madam Duff goes on to the beach to plead with young men intent of gambling their lives in a quest for an eldorado in Europe.
It is not enough to deflect problems by invoking due process or by pleading ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
As we came closer we could make out two men in a life raft with dye marker showing and flailing their arms wildly in the air pleading to be seen.
Though she was a fine soloist with vocal training, she refused, pleading no experience in choral work. Christianity Today
BELLEVILLE, Ontario — A commander who was a rising star in Canada's military pleaded guilty Monday to the murders of two women, the sexual assaults of two others and dozens of breaking and entering charges in which he stole panties from the bedrooms of girls as young as 11. Russell Williams, Top Canadian Military Commander, Pleads Guilty To Murder, Sexual Assault
He pleaded guilty to three robberies, kidnap and one offence of aggravated burglary.
The second fault I want to plead guilty to is carelessness in my statement of your view, and unimaginativeness in applying it.
The claimant originally pleaded that the bank was guilty of knowing receipt of funds transferred in breach of trust.
Some pitiable excuses were pleaded, and in a great many instances it was said that lack of boots and clothing had compelled self-respecting parents to keep their offspring at home.
The woman charged with murder was said to be mad and unfit to plead.
Two of those charged have pleaded not guilty. Times, Sunday Times
It was as if he was pleading a kind of freemasonry because the pair of them shared idiosyncrasies of language. DISPLACED PERSON
If this be so, he can only plead, _Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa_. Probabilities : An aid to Faith
She alleged that the article defamed her both personally and in her office as a magistrate and pleaded 3 false innuendos.
She hurried home and pleaded with her husband to attend the next Bible study and to come under the counsel of this godly pastor. Christianity Today
One should not plead inexperience in excuse of his mistake.
As to his reference to rugby league, I plead ignorance and will not interfere with private griefs.
In essence his submission was that those words were to be construed as being confined to torts and therefore did not include the pleaded acts of knowing assistance.
The pleading, concerned look in his eyes overwhelmed me.
His mother pleaded for approval to use a medicinal cannabidiol, after two months of attempting other treatments had failed.
The study excluded cases in which defendants pleaded guilty or no contest, and it did not involve new interviews with defendants.
Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
In his case, on appeal, the Chief Justice for the first time ruled that the defence of chance medley that downsized murder to manslaughter could not be pleaded under British law.
They impleaded their subcontractor who in turn impleaded its subcontractor so that by the time impleading and cross claiming was done, there were six defense counsels on the case. A Trillion Dollar Case : Law is Cool
Though her voice was toneless, it plead more loudly than words.
Richard pleaded for Belinda to reconsider and not to go through with the divorce.
The big accountancy firms and lawyers that advise them also plead innocence, claiming they are just doing their job. Times, Sunday Times
Among other findings, the court ruled that defendants could plead that they were just following orders.
Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a crust of bread and plead, "Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.
Our arguments, our anger, the anxious pleading of philanthropists who saw the young on the East Side going to ruin, the warning year after year of the superintendent of schools that the compulsory education law was but an empty mockery where it was most needed, the knocking of uncounted thousands of children for whom there was no room, uncounted in sober fact; there was not even a way of finding out how many were adrift, 3brought only the response that the tax rate must be kept down. II. The Outworks of the Slum Taken
We plead with the House to allow the Bill to take its course and reach the statute book.
Two of those charged have pleaded not guilty. Times, Sunday Times
They prayed God would forgive their faults and, for their hopes hereafter, they relied on God's mercy pleaded in the Eucharistic memorial of Christ's redemption and on the intercession of the Church both living and departed.
His attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said in an email to Reuters Strauss-Kahn "will plead not guilty.
We do all the talking; we plead, wheedle, deny and cajole.
At that time, he is expected to plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy.
In justification of his conduct, he pleaded that he was merely obeying orders.
-- _Spigornel_ (for Adam): 'Sir, according to the custom of the town, he is of age when he knows how to count up to twelve pence, and he shall answer in a writ of Right at that age; and inasmuch as he would answer in a writ of Right at that age, he shall warrant at that age, or shall counterplead, &c. The Customs of Old England
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Learn to do good ; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless , Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.
It's self-centred, self-interested pleading at its worst.
I stayed there for a few minutes and considered if I'd be able to plead temporary insanity when I committed matricide.
Last month, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor voter-fraud charge.
Headmen can do little more than harangue and plead with people for support. Cultural Anthropology
She would, she pleaded, write herself to Prince Llewelyn, entreat him to agree for her sake. HERE BE DRAGONS
Two weeks ago, Japan's foreign minister pleaded with the U.N. to do more to block Pyongyang's illicit-drug exports to Japan.
The issue of negligence is complex and you know, has been pleaded significantly within the documents that have been filed in court.
‘I just went for a pee behind a waste bin with great decorum,’ pleads Ludo.
Why did he choose these particular ways in which to plead his cause? The Times Literary Supplement
With the case approached that way, he submits that it is not necessary to plead the evidential estoppel.
They let their sword devour for ever, not considering that it would be bitterness in the latter end, as Abner pleads long after, when he was at the head of an army of Benjamites, probably with an eye to this very story, 2 Sam. ii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
If she wants to plead good reason on this occasion, she also needs to apologise.
A Kirkwall man was released on bail from Kirkwall Sheriff Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to assault and breach of the peace.
SARATOGA SPRINGS - NewsChannel 13 has learned that a Saratoga county man has pleaded guilty in a fatal hit an run accident. Wnyt.com - Capital Region News, Weather and Sports from NEWSCHANNEL 13
Last year the retired general pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information by sharing official log books with his biographer, who was also his mistress. Times, Sunday Times
The pleading look on his face, the rags on his body and his emaciated frame move you so much that you immediately put a coin on the outstretched hands.
No telephone applications or any amount of pleading will ensure exception to these dates.
I plead the cause of the people. DISRAELI: A Personal History
They pleaded guilty to lesser charges of criminal damage.
She appeared on television to plead with the kidnappers.
Having fought through the tears and pleading of our youngest daughter, we finally had the family prepared for their departure.
He pleaded not guilty to cruelty and claimed he had entrusted the puppies to a man called Phil.
In 1977, he pleaded guilty to one caper and was sentenced to jail.
I can't wait for the crowd who plead for understanding of why certain populaces have brought terrorism on themselves to try and wiggle this one around 180 degrees.
Two pleaded guilty, and the third was convicted after trial, in a case that The Republican newspaper of Springfield described as a "blot on the whole city. NYT > Home Page
Both have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to defraud and making a false instrument.
Eventually the driver of the truck had no option but to turn around and leave the plant empty handed, as no amount of pleading from the Gardaí could dispel the motivated group.
Brian Baer has pleaded guilty to a charge he improperly collected 21-thousand dollars in supplemental pay after telling his bosses in Hamilton County he'd been called to Army Reserve duty in February 2003. Phony Veterans and POW's - Article Index
We have raised more than the amount stipulated, and we plead with them to keep their side of the bargain.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of improper use of a motor vehicle. The Sun
She has pleaded not guilty and lodged a defence of marital coercion. Times, Sunday Times
He pleaded guilty to the charges of sexual activity with a child and sexual grooming.
In his closing submissions, Mr. Marler quite properly abandoned reliance on certain pleaded misrepresentations by Hillis considering the equivocal nature of the evidence.
The federal court, though, allowed the fund to replead facts regarding the location. Australian Hedge Fund Takes Goldman Back to Court
She pleaded guilty to the offences at Dewsbury Magistrates Court on October 22 when she was committed to the Crown Court for sentencing.
A national guardsman charged with the murder of an Iraqi police officer has pleaded to a lesser charge of negligent homicide.
The Employer's pleading relied on certain express and implied terms of the contract.
He pleaded guilty to criminal damage and inflicting grievous bodily harm. The Sun
The class have to plead for mercy on his behalf, but the King's envoy will only accept written pleas.
Atkinson pleaded not guilty to malicious wounding but admitted unlawful wounding.
It's self-centred, self-interested pleading at its worst.
He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her.
That's how bad things were, that's how successful Romney was in pleading his case that he was the best thing to hit the gay agenda since Judy Garland and disco. Romney using proxies to convince voters he really IS anti-gay, really
It amazes me how people seem to forget that they were young once and that no amount of pep talks, pleading or punishment would have made a blind bit of difference to how they carried on when away from their parents' beady eyes.
They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
[237] If anybody pleads for Louis Bertrand of _Gaspard de la Nuit_ as a thirdsman, I should accept him gladly, though he is even farther from the novel-norm than Gérard himself. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
He was encouraged to plead guilty to the lesser offence.
Chambers, who was charged with second-degree murder, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, a lesser, but still very serious charge.
He pleaded innocent to the charges.
The persistent widow kept returning to plead her case. Christianity Today
Nine people have pleaded guilty to various charges .
Looking back he saw that she was pleading with the gatekeeper, who continued to shake his head.
They solicited civic protection for their own conscientious practice of religion, pleading freedom from all oppression and molestation.
Pfizer division , Pharmacia & Upjohn, agreed plead guilty to a criminal violation over the painkiller Bextra.
You can only guess at the special pleading behind closed doors that works away at her defences. Times, Sunday Times
All three pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal.
Both of them pleaded with the Council for the substitution of a milder mode of death; but the syndics were inflexible.
A former fêtarde* myself and still a bit featherbrained from it I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard! étourneau - French Word-A-Day
The trial judge ruled that this was a defence of insanity, whereupon she pleaded guilty and appealed.
Again, my heart pleaded for justice and mercy; for _justice_ to all; and for _mercy_ to the needy and helpless. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
A MAN who pleaded to causing damage to a door and breaking two panes of glass at a house was ordered to compensate the owner, at the November 22 sitting of Carlow District Court.
The 52-year-old is expected to plead not guilty to the criminal charges that carry a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. Times, Sunday Times
She would, she pleaded, write herself to Prince Llewelyn, entreat him to agree for her sake. HERE BE DRAGONS
This he pleads with his Father, for his intercession is made in the virtue of his satisfaction; by his own blood he entered into the holy place (Heb.ix. 12), as the high priest, on the day of atonement, sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice at the same time that he burnt incense within the veil, Lev. xvi. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
So please save your noble, peace loving, one-with-nature savage schtick for the ignorant do-gooders who will mule, whimper, sob, slobber in maudeline fashion and plead for your forgiveness and that of your ancestors as an act of the collective white guilt that they exhibit. Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.
The other five men pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Times, Sunday Times
I pleaded for him and begged them to take me instead, but they forced me away.
The defence pleaded insanity, but the defendant was found guilty and sentenced.
Inexact or unliquidated losses (although they are not presumed and therefore must be pleaded) are compensated by an award of general damages.
The captain of the flight repeatedly pleaded to allow the passengers to deplane and enter the terminal. Three airlines fined in Minnesota tarmac stranding
He stared at her pleadingly, but seeing her hard gaze, he exhaled gustily.
To think that you want someone out there pleading your special needs is extraordinary.
A posse of Detroit executives went to Tokyo to plead for relief from Japan's export drive.
Pot Luck was granted leave to replead the state law claims if it could plead diversity jurisdiction, though the court warned that many of the allegations appeared insufficient on their face, and that injunctive relief was barred by the licenses. Archive 2009-03-01
He pleaded innocence and has been found guilty. The Sun
The woman charged with murder was said to be mad and unfit to plead.
Some extremely powerful figures have pleaded with him to change his mind. The Sun
In the adversarial system at the beginning of trial proceedings the court asks the defendant whether he pleads guilty or not guilty.
We made presentations at their meetings, told them what we had been hearing from bus riders and night workers, and pleaded with board members to bring a resolution to restore the buses.
And Siobhan and Samantha have a series of clashes over how Siobhan should plead.
He was given five consecutive nine-year terms at Lincoln crown court after pleading guilty to ten threats to kill. The Sun
The unfortunate woman stood accused of the murder of the workhouse gravedigger and pleaded her innocence to the last.
The waterbed I'd begged and pleaded for was in the corner where I could see out the bay window, but not be woken by the sun.
Once they decided to deny entry, no amount of pleading on the part of the bands, the promoter or the venue would change their minds.
Her voice was breaking with emotion as she pleaded for her child's return.
If Moniz, Jack's best friend and confidant, was begging and pleading with his best friend to slow down and stop driving like a mindless animal.
Joo-Han did not know quite what to do next, whether to plead with him or just leave.
He is, at this moment, hunched over his unstolen cellphone in tears, begging, pleading, mumbling imprecations for me to call him and relieve his torment.
Rosen called two witnesses, who had pleaded guilty to being involved in selling the drugs, and testified to phone calls they'd made with Avalos and others involved. Trial begins in cocaine case
Her best-selling books plead for a return to old-fashioned family values. Times, Sunday Times
According to the Bulletin, Calderon pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse in January 2008. Phillip Calderone Charged With Falsifying Documents After Posing As Binghamton Student
On its website and in assorted court pleadings, it too declares that it owns nothing. Ellen Brown: Time to Break Up the Too-Big-to-Fail Banks?
She was almost pleading with him.
War in Indochina: Lost. French forces plead sickness , take to bed with Dien Bien Flu.
Mr. Antonucci, who pleaded guilty to fraud last week, including criminal charges about this transaction, changed the name of the assets to Park Avenue Property & Casualty Insurance Co., the company that is currently in liquidation in the court. Oklahoma Sues Park Avenue Bank, Oppenheimer
The church government which I plead for against him, is a means subservient and helpful, so far as _removere prohibens_, to remove that which apparently is impeditive and destructive to that purity and power. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
Matthew Cradock [first Governor of the Company] comes in, having had time to interplead, etc., and on his default judgment was given, that he should be convicted of the usurpation charged in the information, and that the said liberties, privileges and franchises should be taken and seized into the King's hands; the said Matthew not to intermeddle with and be excluded the use thereof, and the said Matthew to be taken to answer to the King for the said usurpation. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
But he was too proud to plead at the right doors.
Mr. Chan holds a will granting Nina's entire estate to him. burned for good luck but not as a testamentary instrument - after amending earlier pleadings that Nina lacked capacity and Mr. Chan used Telegraph, the flamboyant Nina (dubbed in Hong Kong as "Little Sweetie" after a Japanese cartoon character because she favoured pigtails, colorful micro-miniskirts, bobbysocks and white PVC macs), had resisted attempts to have her late husband declared dead. Toronto Estate Law Blog
Plead for their help in working out how to grow grass successfully.
Aware that some athletes might want to cash in even before the cereal-endorsement folks showed up, USOC handlers pleaded with the American athletes not to sell or trade their official uniforms (comprising nearly 50 articles of clothing, from broadbrim felt hats to leather flight jackets) - at least until after the closing ceremonies. New Age Games
Customers have been complaining for years about the broken, ailing equipment and leisure officials are pleading for more visitors.
The climax is reached on his discovery among the accounts, all giving proof of his wife's reckless extravagance, a billet-doux, pleading for a clandestine meeting in his own garden. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
Lastly, over and above all, might they not plead themselves extremely scandalized, grieved, and offended at the disusage of circumcision, which they were sure was at first instituted by God, and never since Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
She has now become nimble and agile with the experience of dodging through traffic, avoiding moving vehicles, where she taps pleadingly at windows.
A tenant, though threatened with suits at law on a title adverse to liis landlord's, cannot make them interplead. Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of exchequer, from Easter term 32 George III. to [Trinity term 37 George III.] ... both inclusive. [1792-1797]
One of Ben Ali's lawyers told the Associated Press the ex-president will plead not guilty.
But out of season, you'll have to plead with the tourist office, who will send you to the house of signora Maria, who, if she's not out doing the shopping or visiting any number of relations, may be willing to let you in - at her own pace.
Well, I begged for at least forty-five minutes until I realized that my pleading just wasn't going to get us that sign.
He subsequently pleaded guilty to failing to stop and to render assistance, but then stood trial on the charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
Even so basic a global public good as the freedom and security of the seas is nibbled away, bit by bit, through high minded treaties that make it possible for the usual enforcers to plead the inability to enforce. The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Be a Hegemon
To Pay Smuggling Fines Two of Canada's largest tobacco companies agreed to pay more than one billion Canadian dollars ($980 million) in fines and pledges to antismuggling efforts over the next 10 to 15 years, after pleading guilty to customs charges related to contraband cigarettes and smuggling. Canadian Tobacco Firms
At a hearing last month he pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm and criminal damage and was sentenced at Maidstone crown court yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
He told the court he had not intentionally drunk alcohol - but pleaded guilty to the charge. The Sun
I was told that the husband has pleaded guilty to contempt proceedings in the Family Court.
Willie Somers raised his pleading eyes to his face (and many long years after did their expression haunt him), "O Mr. Lambert, please don't go any farther, we shall be over the falls. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland
There is another answer at much lower level, namely, that none of that was pleaded, argued or decided below and it is not open now.
I have to plead guilty to this.
[15] 'Whose eidant plead yet made my thoughtis grein:' whose close disputation made my thoughts yearn. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
Davis pleaded guilty to drink-driving and was banned from driving for 30 months.
He also pleaded guilty to another two counts of burglary and an attempted burglary.
Upon much pleading a shepherd of the landgrave permitted her to use an abandoned pig sty. St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious
Next I'd pleadingly ask, Can't the Judges see he's bringing me to Court all the time and for ridiculous reasons? Sharon Zarozny: What Happens When Divorce Bankrupts You?

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