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How to use plea in a sentence

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After he turned down the plea bargain, a grand jury indicted Webb on fourth degree criminal contempt.
In February 1998, he delivered a rousing speech in Kiev's Hall of Deputies that climaxed with a plea to privatize the telephone system.
However, prosecutors were more likely to accept a plea bargaining offer from white defendants accused of racially aggravated offences.
After a lengthy plea from a social worker, the judge reluctantly agrees to allow the boy to leave.
I am sad to say that my plea fell on deaf ears, and I was denied opportunity to put this plan into action.
The family of the couple packed the court to see Oakley change his plea at the 11 th hour.
Making a passionate plea for more public philanthropy in arts, she is of the opinion that industrial houses should take up this cause.
He had pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to the lesser offence of theft, but that plea was not accepted by the Crown.
This collection represents a communal plea for peace from those who have had little of it in their lives.
Reports of the kindly and gentle Indon judges reading books and chatting while she made her plea were not encouraging.
The devastated parents of a man murdered in a Bolton town centre street have issued an emotional plea to help catch his killer.
Irish musicians are hoping their plea to stop US military aircraft refuelling at Shannon will strike the right chord with the Government.
I watched a plea for his life earlier today from his wife and I extend my sincere and heartfelt condolences to her and to all his family.
It is necessary to remember that a plea of justification may be pitched at one of three levels of gravity in relation to a defamatory sting.
She made a conflicted plea bargain in the case and received a stiff twenty-year to life sentence.
What Barsamian's questions provoke is an eloquent and desperate plea for direct, instantaneous action.
The emergency services have joined the hospital in a plea to parents to be more considerate of the potential danger caused by careless parking.
It is now six days since the 21-year-old was last seen and her family yesterday made an emotional plea for her to return.
But police have made an urgent plea for help in ensuring dealers from outside the area do not move in and take their place.
A villager has voiced an emotional plea to stop a proposed road scheme, which he says will devastate his wife's business.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I had no more a distinctive plea for Anglicanism, unless I would be a Monophysite.
We cant afford it is the plea most frequently heard, and a despicably selfish one it is.
No excuse of State Rights, no fine-spun technicality, no plea of irregularity, no argument of estoppel can be heard.
If this plea cannot establish my innocence, it must excuse or at least extenuate my guilt.
He threw aside his first intention of finessing Belle into his bedroom on the plea of asking her to help him to pack.
Then the hunters made the plea that the meadow lark was really a game bird and that they ought to be allowed to shoot it.
Where there was a garnishment given touching a plea of land, a writ of deceit is also maintainable.
In a country like this, the plea of necessity for crime is glaringly impious.
And it was taken under the sophistical plea that it belonged to the nation.
He dropped them at the speedboat with a plea to be careful, then headed back to the office.
Both the Indic ballads are a fervent plea for the innate nobility of humanity.
To such cases, a plea in abatement would not be applicable, because the plaintiff could not sue in an inferior court.
But each declined asking Colonel Kingswood, on the plea that they had other partners in view.
On the plea of the unwritten law, Jeff McKinney got off with a suspended sentence.
Professor Martens based his original plea of the czar's on the Lincolnian guide for the soldiers in our war.
There was the tensity of fierceness in the man's plea which appealed deeply to her sympathies.
Hunter rightly held that Roux's plea for local option was inadmissible, and that the surrender must apply to the whole force.
Lockhart pleads for some of these, but I fear the plea can hardly be admitted.
Bartrow saw the plea and the pathos of it, and added one more to the innumerable contemnings of his own maladroitness.
In the event of that plea failing, what could Japan do, he asked, other than proceed to fortify the Marshall Islands?
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