How To Use Pleading In A Sentence

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.
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 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
She said: ‘I was panicking, fretting, crying and pleading with him to give me back my daughter.’

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.
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
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
It was as if he was pleading a kind of freemasonry because the pair of them shared idiosyncrasies of language. DISPLACED PERSON
The pleading, concerned look in his eyes overwhelmed me.
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
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
It's self-centred, self-interested pleading at its worst.
A Kirkwall man was released on bail from Kirkwall Sheriff Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to assault and breach of the peace.
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.
Having fought through the tears and pleading of our youngest daughter, we finally had the family prepared for their departure.
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.
The Employer's pleading relied on certain express and implied terms of the contract.
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.
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.
You can only guess at the special pleading behind closed doors that works away at her defences. Times, Sunday Times
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
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.
He was given five consecutive nine-year terms at Lincoln crown court after pleading guilty to ten threats to kill. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
She has now become nimble and agile with the experience of dodging through traffic, avoiding moving vehicles, where she taps pleadingly at windows.
Well, I begged for at least forty-five minutes until I realized that my pleading just wasn't going to get us that sign.
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
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
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?
Whilst not going into what it was here, we were both pleading guilty with mitigating circumstances.
There, deposited into her mother's clutches, Little Edie snubs him on the platform, failing to say goodbye as he stands there pleading as much as his granitelike propriety will allow. Slate Magazine
It is not enough to deflect problems by invoking due process or by pleading ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
She spent her last years pleading for funds and food for the starving thousands. Christianity Today
Maid permission to receive the sacrament if she would do so in a woman's dress: and how after pleading that she might be allowed that privilege as she was, in her male costume, and with a pathetic statement that she would have yielded if she could, but that it was impossible -- she finally refused; and was so left in her prison to pass that sacred day unsuccoured and alone. Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death
Awakening from catatonia and diving directly into high-decibel pleading, recriminations, and rants is no mean feat.
I eventually did get one after much pleading and begging.
In New Hampshire, where pleadings had always been simple, clear, and direct, the lawyers introduced more sophistication and complexity during the years 1692 to 1700; the action of ejectment, the writs of scire facias and supersedeas, the action of trespass de bonis asportatis, entered New Hampshire as immigrants at this time.55 Students of Massachusetts law on the eve of the Revolution have declared it to be quite conservative, at least by earlier standards. A History of American Law
To my surprise, my dad sounded stern and curt, rather than persuasive and pleading. Times, Sunday Times
As the anchor was hanging up on her, Brenda was in hysterical tears and pleading for her life. Almost A Third Of Poll Think Harper Is A Liar « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Mrs. Plavsic was sentenced by the Hague Tribunal in 2003 after surrendering to the court and pleading guilty to one count as part of a plea bargain.
He said this was tantamount to pleading guilty and he deserved a cut. The Sun
The defendant has entered a substantive defence pleading justification and qualified privilege.
So it was ordered, that after the pleadings of both sides was ended, they thought best to try and boult out the verity by witnesses, all presumptions and likelihood set apart, and to call in the servant, who onely was reported to know all the matter: by and by the servant came in, who nothing abashed, at the feare of so great a judgment, or at the presence of the The Golden Asse
This she dragged out, and filling her "nipperkin" with water, carried them both to Ruth, saying, in her sweet, pleading way, -- Dotty Dimple's Flyaway
As long as we remain overcivilized, anarchy, violence, murder and superstition will continue their sinister recovery — until one day you may think you hear your own mother’s voice [pleading for your life] on the network news. The Volokh Conspiracy » 2004 » September
Another minute or two and the warden would have felt compelled to give me a ticket, in spite of my pleadings. DOUBLE DECEIT
This is what Jesus foresaw for the scribes and the Pharisees, and the moral caution bristles with rank and smellable detail under the painter's touch, from the begging bowl at one man's waist to the orbless, accusing eyes that another turns on us, in pleading or rebuke. The New Yorker
Now he stands accused of inadequately pleading his position, of mocking the people, and is instructed to try again to seek their approval.
Berlusconi then reverted to his normal strategy by pleading for several more years to put into effect the sweeping reforms he had promised on his election.
The pleading is put in issue by the denial of the alleged defamation, and if the matter set forth, with or without the alleged meaning, shows a cause of action, the pleading is sufficient. Archive 2009-10-01
A lot of actors in his position right now would be literally pleading their case.
They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
I hope you don't want me to kill Mr. — er — Haythorne," he said gently, almost pleadingly. A DAY'S LODGING
His performance is seen to be remarkably similar to previous pleading when education secretary where he was twice a spending-round winner.
When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
The litigation proceeded through pleadings, examinations for discovery and pre-trial hearings with great difficulty.
Billy's stammering voice called pleadingly, 'St-stand back, ca-can't you, and gi-give him air.' Tracy Park
One of the accused got off lightly in exchange for pleading guilty to withholding information from Congress.
In our submission, the question of standard of proof is materially different from the question of pleading.
She spent her last years pleading for funds and food for the starving thousands. Christianity Today
They have signed a letter pleading with competition watchdogs to look into prices at the pumps. The Sun
Judge Carol Amon in pleading guilty to mail fraud. Statistics on the Prisoner of War issue
I am standing, dripping and shivering, on the cold lino of the Palmers Green bathroom, just out of the big enamel bath, pleading, "Dry me, Mummy, I'm freezing", and then sitting on her lap, warmly wrapped in that same towel with its pale green stars. Family life
Morgan Stanley declined to comment, but in court pleadings last year, lawyers for the firm said that St. Vincent representatives "authorized and were aware of" the specific investments that were made. Government Joins Suit Over Pension
My pleasant reverie was broken by Mike tugging at my arm and pleading: ‘Can I have a bike, Dad, please?’
A desperate dad who had a fox shot after it allegedly bit his baby is pleading with an animal rights activist to leave his family alone.
But when you're wailing in pain and pleading for assistance, it really is prolonging the agony. The Sun
There were about ten of them, varying in age and height, but all with the same dark eyes and dirty faces, rotten teeth and tearful, pleading voices.
He was dead, and all my pleading with him not to leave me was in vain.
Our courts are clogged with lawsuits pleading redress of wrongs perpetrated on individual employees.
This was revised after much pleading and she went on to gain a joint honours degree in French and Spanish last year. Times, Sunday Times
He's now in federal court pleading a religious defense, because federal law does not allow him a medical defense.
M. de Lally read us a pleading for émigrés of all descriptions, to the people and Government of France, for their reinstalment in their native land, that exceeds in eloquence, argument, taste, feeling, and every power of oratory and truth united, any thing I ever remember to have heard .... Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
Outside men held cardboard signs pleading'Does anybody have a spare ticket? Times, Sunday Times
It was one of those questions where answering correctly might be worse than pleading ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Irvin is on probation after pleading no contest in July to a felony charge of cocaine possession.
Derick Chan , former head of corporate banking at Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Asia Ltd., was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to accepting HK$3.3 million of bribes in or around 2006-07 from Zeng Wei , a businessman involved in property development and hotels. Former ICBC Bankers Sent to Prison for Accepting Bribes
I am only pleading with you to use the term Austrian in the same mundane and common sense way. On Beating Dead Horses - The Austrian Economists
He got a 12-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty at court. The Sun
Chris nodded, her eyes again filling at the earnestness and pleading behind his tone.
Your Honours, the pleading of this case really provides the answer to the way in which the statute, uninstructed by Justice Hodgson's reasons in Attrill, should have been applied.
We see Tom Stall running a popular eatery with his wife helping him out when she is not pleading cases in law courts.
Anyway, for him, it's great news, as he has managed to swerve a trial for possession of coke and heroin by pleading no contest and doing the twelve-step reshuffle.
And His voice calls pleadingly, "Take this same road; get in behind. Quiet Talks on Following the Christ
Giselle could hear Elaine pleading with her father to advance her allowance one month so that she could purchase some outfits.
At trial the law student conducting the case was other than the one involved in the drafting of the pleading.
Loopholes come about through the pleading of property owners who dare to suggest that there is merit to keeping private property safe from the grasping hand of power.
One of the accused got off lightly in exchange for pleading guilty to withholding information from Congress.
Some pleading is required before Elak will return to Atlantis. Superhero Prose Fiction: Fantastic Swordsmen - 5 Dragon Moon
Man stands powerless before the elevator: it has no thoughts, and it has no way of registering our thoughts, our frustrations, or desperate pleadings. In the Valley of the Shadow
After much pleading, she wins permission to visit his lavender farm, on condition that she's accompanied by an elderly relative, to deflect gossip from William.
Does anybody know where this capitalization fetish in pleading comes from? The Volokh Conspiracy » Ouch!
Yet again and again she felt constrained to make her simple supplication, pleading earnestly for her baby's life with the God the reality of whose being and power she now _felt_, spite of herself. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best
His pleadings usually culminated in involuntary raving, until it seemed to her that he was passing into a fit; but always she shook her head and denied him the freedom for which he worked himself into a passion. THE UNEXPECTED
He got a 12-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty at court. The Sun
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! French Word-A-Day:
The remaining living lambs, three of them, were bleating with a kind of horrified, pleading simper. THE LAST RAVEN
I traversed a pinnacle, swearing and pleading, and came upon a spindly tree that was blowing smoke from the end of each branch. Times, Sunday Times
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendez-vous with destiny.
The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
Three men were fined a total of £17,000 today after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety regulations that led to the death of two steeplejacks.
Emily, the mother is a martyr to migraine, which causes her to withdraw to her bedroom, her husband is frequently absent, pleading pressure of work.
The forest is being rubbed out by special pleading, arm-twisting and back-scratching corruption. Times, Sunday Times
The arguing tactic is called "special pleading," and it's a dirty rhetorical trick indeed! Boing Boing
Sometimes, when they had finished the dishes, Carol, intent on Connie's story, stood patiently rubbing the dish pan a hundred, a thousand times, until David would call pleadingly, "Girls, come out here and talk. Sunny Slopes
It's self-centred, self-interested pleading at its worst.
Then at last, his voice down almost to a pleading whine: `I suppose that's down to you, guv. RIOT
If his pleadings are struck, Ms. Mellon may proceed immediately to trial on an uncontested basis.
Her hands were lifted in pleading beseechment, while her wailing voice sobbed with questions. The Pride of Hannah Wade
The court observed that a new claim is not made by amendment until the pleading is amended.
A novelist and playwright himself, this might seem like the special pleading of a thin-skinned but hard-necked writer who fears that his own literary endeavours will never stand up to serious appraisal.
The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
He saw himself incredibly emaciated, covered in filth, his cheeks drawn and his own eyes looked back at him from hollow sockets colored with despair, pleading for help.
PORTSMOUTH - A Portsmouth teen will be in district court this morning to receive his sentence after pleading guilty to the gruesome murder of a former classmate in a 2008 homicide that drew enormous media attention. The Shad Plank
He called pleadingly for the amount of morphine prepared for that day, as he had not taken it. The Opium Habit
He's the shizzle right now now and provided he makes it back from Israel alive the editors of a certain outdoors magazine may want to capitalize on that fame by sending him on one of those plum destination assignments I've been fruitlessly begging and pleading for. Joe the Plumber
The Defendant is pleading a confession and avoidance to the Plaintiff's claim.
Despite months of pleading for helpers there has been little interest in the Melksham Youth Café and the doors could close for the last time on April 26.
The judge gave him credit for pleading guilty which spared the girl the ordeal of attending court.
The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
The zombies have already knocked down and wounded several people, who are pleading pitiably for help; and one of the player's duties is to protect those unfortunates from renewed assaults by the zombies.
The defendant has entered a substantive defence pleading justification and qualified privilege.
She gave him a pleading look that he answered with a rain of kisses.
Puckishly pleadingly is a free weight loss plan enterokinase on the sexy innocence of croatian or punctually on the garbed plowed needlepoint of the fool, as the devourer has to marquess a nodular faraday. Rational Review
After fifteen or twenty seconds, Lily and Scheherazade (with Keith somehow bracketed in the middle of it) were swiftly and surreally engulfed by a swarm of young men, not boys or youths, but young men in sharp shirts and pressed slacks, whooping, pleading, cackling and all aflicker, like a telekinetic card trick of kings and knaves, shuffling and riffling and fanning out under the streetlamps ... 'The Pregnant Widow'
The pleading does not expressly rely on such a premise.
Despite pleading and begging, the evil karaoke mistress would not budge.
No amount of pleading or argument could make the branch keep the promise they had made earlier to us and other investors. Times, Sunday Times
There is nothing more distasteful than backpackers landing in developing countries and pleading poverty.
The mother of a teenager who died following a moped accident is pleading for calm in the aftermath of his death.
She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something.
One of the accused got off lightly in exchange for pleading guilty to withholding information from Congress.
My favorite moment was when she was pleading from the other room for Serena to help with her hair. 'Gossip Girl' recap: Serena gets a taste of showbiz | EW.com
CORPUS CHRISTI - Two men with Corpus Christi ties were sentenced Wednesday to probation and community service after pleading guilty to illegally shooting migratory birds in Florida. Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories
No amount of pleading or argument could make the branch keep the promise they had made earlier to us and other investors. Times, Sunday Times
The voice is more honeyed than the typical British tenor but a pleading urgency tugs at the ear as much as his intense physical embodiment of the music rivets the eye.
She thought, pleading desperately, trying to vocalize the words but not knowing if they were actually leaving her mouth or if they were trapped in her head.
She avoided jail by pleading self-defence.
Although most of us are not begging on the street with an open hand, are we not all pleading with an exposed and vulnerable heart to be received?
The story probably continued with a bit more wheedling and pleading, but I wasn't really listening.
The president was unattractively defensive, and at times rambling, humorless, pleading and frustrated. Andy Ostroy: "Dude," Where's My President!?
The cotton factory owners were pleading with the government to intervene on the side of the South in order to lift the blockade.
They have signed a letter pleading with competition watchdogs to look into prices at the pumps. The Sun
She was pleading insanity
It was as if he was pleading a kind of freemasonry because the pair of them shared idiosyncrasies of language. DISPLACED PERSON
In the mid-nineteenth century, American courts began to devise their own rules for pleadings, but again they required great specificity in alleging facts to support the claims presented. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
The vocalist even went to the extent of sweetly pleading and cajoling the crowd to get into the groove, before he let the music and the performance do all the talking.
Its argument, though, is predictable socio-political special-pleading. Times, Sunday Times
She threw another sidelong look at Qualary and found the woman's eyes fixed pleadingly upon her. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Identifying the alleged contravention of the Act is no idle pleading point.
Look, Jim, how my fingers fidges," he continued in the pleading tone. Treasure Island
Yes, it will take some pleading, but this ties into something else I really can't talk about at the moment.
The persons who appear and do counsel work, either in drawing pleadings or appearing in court as an advocate.
They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
So perhaps he was pleading for a merciful death?
Oh, grandpa!" said the little girl, laying one hand again pleadingly on his knee, "I didn't mean – I mean – I was speaking in general – I wasn't thinking of myself in particular. Queechy
His eyes were pleading with her, sympathy and pity and wonder all at the same time.
Irvin is on probation after pleading no contest in July to a felony charge of cocaine possession.
The women were each sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2003 to kidnapping, child endangerment, and felonious assault.
I called my roommate Angie who was also on her way, and after we both arrived at the place we started pleading our case.
The castle bell began to toll again, deep and pleading.
During the time of this their clamourous contending, the Judge being very willy willing to heare either party: Matteuzzo, upon a signe received from the other, which was a word in Masoes pleading, laide holde on the broken boord, as also on the Judges low-hanging The Decameron
He looked at me with a mixture of confusion and pleading.
He sat up, crouching, trembling with fear, and called to me pleadingly. CHAPTER XV
They have found out the hard way that their bleeding heart pleadings -- 'yes, the financial markets might destroy us, but how can we cut this or that worthy cause' -- don't cut it. Warren Mosler: Modern Monetary Theory: The Last Progressive Left Standing
I tensed up, pleading silently that no one was going to break out in a fight again.
This is in support of one of my most subtle pleadings of defence, to wit, that I have already offered to marry the plaintiff according to my country's laws, but that she did definitely decline such a marriage as polygamous (which it is indubitably liable to become at any moment), consequently, that my said contract is nilled by mutual consent. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
The remaining living lambs, three of them, were bleating with a kind of horrified, pleading simper. THE LAST RAVEN
That sudden loquaciousness is telling; other characters are begging, pleading for Ennis to share what’s on his mind, but Jack is the only one who Ennis says anything of consequence to. Formalities That Make No Sense
The record before me does not contain any pleadings in reply to the statements of defence of the police defendants.
Stop to take a photograph of the tombs themselves, the Sphinx or any other of the monuments here, and the touts will swoop down with hands outstretched and pleading expressions.
Surely, without any of my pleading, women will welcome their great and amiable protectrix, as by instinct. The Works of Max Beerbohm
He did not enter a plea but the court heard he intended pleading guilty. The Sun
With Barack Obama announcing Senator Joe Biden as his running mate, I feel compelled to launch a pre-emptive strike, pleading with the inevitable parade of "race commentators" who will be asked to reh ... Brandon M. Terry: Leave Joe Biden Alone
But then she spoke again, in this pleading, grating voice that rubbed his nerve endings raw.
The accused beat the rap by pleading temporary insanity.
Outside men held cardboard signs pleading'Does anybody have a spare ticket? Times, Sunday Times
He tells also of an elderly off-duty cop -- a "peeler" -- having a drink in a bar, seeing his IRA killers approach and pleading: "Ah, no, boys, not me ... The Price Of Courage
The cries and wails of the thousands of orphans went up to high Heaven pleading for those fathers who had left them to fill the unsatiate maw of cruel, relentless war. History of Kershaw's Brigade
There are many allegations made in the pleadings against the defendants but the matter which came before me to decide was a narrow one.
He apologized for not coming to the party , pleading pressure of work.
We should be pleading with him to unleash the full repertoire at Wimbledon. Times, Sunday Times
In the pleadings, the defendants assert that the Bank owed them a duty of good faith that was breached.

How To Use Pleading In A Sentence

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