In 1598 he killed a fellow actor in a duel, but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of clergy, being branded instead as a felon. |
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Despite their repeated pleading, the police did not allow them to make calls from their mobile phones, which they confiscated. |
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He was jailed for nine years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs and possession of cocaine and cannabis. |
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The judge gave him credit for pleading guilty which spared the girl the ordeal of attending court. |
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Three men with links to the Coffin Cheater bikie gang have been fined after pleading guilty to unlawful assault. |
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Awakening from catatonia and diving directly into high-decibel pleading, recriminations, and rants is no mean feat. |
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Having fought through the tears and pleading of our youngest daughter, we finally had the family prepared for their departure. |
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Whilst not going into what it was here, we were both pleading guilty with mitigating circumstances. |
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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. |
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Well, I begged for at least forty-five minutes until I realized that my pleading just wasn't going to get us that sign. |
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They solicited civic protection for their own conscientious practice of religion, pleading freedom from all oppression and molestation. |
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She was sentenced Tuesday in Los Angeles after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter. |
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The cotton factory owners were pleading with the government to intervene on the side of the South in order to lift the blockade. |
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Also, after much pleading and begging on Powell's part, her mother finally bought her contact lenses. |
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Chris nodded, her eyes again filling at the earnestness and pleading behind his tone. |
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Yes, it will take some pleading, but this ties into something else I really can't talk about at the moment. |
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He speaks under protest, pleading that he has so far managed to avoid being photographed or profiled and would quite like to keep it that way. |
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A TEENAGER, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward. |
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Jack's unspeaking mouth turned up in the slightest grin, his eyes pleading. |
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The pleading against the solicitor is in the alternative, in negligence for breach of duty of care and in equity for breach of fiduciary duty. |
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His performance is seen to be remarkably similar to previous pleading when education secretary where he was twice a spending-round winner. |
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I'm not pleading for sympathy or giving you a sob story, that's not my style, but it is really, really getting to me. |
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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? |
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It may well be that the ultimate objection is that such a pleading places a burden of proof on the claimant to prove his innocence. |
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The foregoing argument may be looked upon suspiciously as special pleading. |
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I believe he spoke to her for a long time, entreating, wondering, pleading, ordering, I suppose. |
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This comes after prosecutors claim the singer failed a drug test and violated her probation after pleading no contest to assaulting a woman. |
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The professor's statement was itself a piece of special pleading, by a fine scholar determined to avoid theoretical discussions. |
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He's now in federal court pleading a religious defense, because federal law does not allow him a medical defense. |
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But Mr Brown and his peers cannot find comfortable haven in pleading helplessness in the face of a fractured infrastructure. |
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Britain, pleading her constitutional position, did not sign, though the prince regent expressed personal approval. |
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He was ordered to be detained without limit later that year after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
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I ached to be back with him and, after weeks of pleading, I agreed to give our marriage another go. |
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He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her. |
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But then she spoke again, in this pleading, grating voice that rubbed his nerve endings raw. |
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But she has not seen her son since and now she is desperately pleading for him to make contact. |
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There is nothing more distasteful than backpackers landing in developing countries and pleading poverty. |
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We respectfully submit that a matter has to be raised as a claim by the pleading in order to be a justiciable controversy. |
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Giselle could hear Elaine pleading with her father to advance her allowance one month so that she could purchase some outfits. |
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The story probably continued with a bit more wheedling and pleading, but I wasn't really listening. |
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Quin tried to keep his voice reasonable, but it came out as a pleading whine. |
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My head was in a whirl with all that I was seeing, and I kept pleading with the baron to make our cab go slower so I could look around. |
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He was committed to a psychiatric hospital in 2004 after pleading not criminally responsible to lesser charges. |
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We are pleading with people, this is really the last chance now and we need a white knight in shining armour to ride in and save us. |
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The mother of a teenager who died following a moped accident is pleading for calm in the aftermath of his death. |
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Without such allegation that the contract was assigned, that part of the pleading would then be demurrable. |
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His eyes were pleading with her, sympathy and pity and wonder all at the same time. |
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Our courts are clogged with lawsuits pleading redress of wrongs perpetrated on individual employees. |
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To think that you want someone out there pleading your special needs is extraordinary. |
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How hast thou stood with pleading eyes, Outstretching hands, and fervent cries, Unwearied wrestler with the skies! |
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The court observed that a new claim is not made by amendment until the pleading is amended. |
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For pity is not a word to them, no amount of pleading can save you and no amount of money can buy your life. |
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I called my roommate Angie who was also on her way, and after we both arrived at the place we started pleading our case. |
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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. |
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When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry. |
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A week ago the group sent a letter to the province pleading the case for arts groups. |
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If an Indian war were to break out, Georgians would be pleading for the presence, not the absence, of Redcoats. |
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Elizabeth found it difficult to keep the pleading tone suppressed in her voice as she touched her friend's free hand lightly. |
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The defendant has entered a substantive defence pleading justification and qualified privilege. |
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Now he stands accused of inadequately pleading his position, of mocking the people, and is instructed to try again to seek their approval. |
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We see Tom Stall running a popular eatery with his wife helping him out when she is not pleading cases in law courts. |
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Our oldest daughter recently married has been begging and pleading with her husband for a fur baby. |
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A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendez-vous with destiny. |
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I was supposed to be going down the pub with my mate Alan, but he cried off, pleading exhaustion. |
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They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked. |
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His tone made a crescendo to pleading, but Kay kept speaking rather assuredly. |
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I actually followed Simon out of the room, pleading my case as he went to get coffee. |
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And all those Canadians who are constantly pleading with me to stay might as well save their breath. |
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When the pictures get developed, I'm pleading for Bri's mom scan me that picture with her and Josh. |
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And when she is allowed to let go, her pleading is without plaintiveness, her passion brims over into compassion. |
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Williams says he called Anderson numerous times pleading with her to withhold the mug shot till he could have his day in court. |
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The Defendant is pleading a confession and avoidance to the Plaintiff's claim. |
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In practice, the effect of this strict approach has not been greatly to swell the numbers of people pleading insanity. |
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He gave Rick a wide-eyed, pleading look, like an Irish setter expecting a reprimand. |
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At trial the law student conducting the case was other than the one involved in the drafting of the pleading. |
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During the trial, she refused to testify about the welfare matter, pleading the Fifth Amendment. |
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I tensed up, pleading silently that no one was going to break out in a fight again. |
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A Kirkwall man was released on bail from Kirkwall Sheriff Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to assault and breach of the peace. |
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Customers have been complaining for years about the broken, ailing equipment and leisure officials are pleading for more visitors. |
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In pleading guilty and inviting death by firing squad the narrator is at least making a stand. |
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A neighbour heard the women screaming for help, pleading with her son to stop. |
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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. |
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Many are still waiting, but some morning soon they too will wake to the lilt of a backyard bird pleading for a mate. |
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In our submission, the question of standard of proof is materially different from the question of pleading. |
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They kept begging and pleading with him, but he kept relentlessly inching the vehicle forward. |
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Just before the lever gets thrown, Rocky erupts into a watery, gelatinous mass of pleading regret. |
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He was given a life sentence in March this year after pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment and threats to kill. |
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I do not think that a more timeous pleading of the point would have altered the way in which the case has in fact been prepared for trial. |
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Ash stopped if only to make Salacia end her pleading and put it back in the gold plated box that had safeguarded it. |
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Identifying the alleged contravention of the Act is no idle pleading point. |
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The issue is further clouded by the plausible special pleading that the development industry has successfully propagated. |
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As well, he accuses a former lawyer of attempting to trick him into pleading insanity. |
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Apparently he considered adultery a lesser crime than financial chicanery, and by pleading the one, he avoided the other. |
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The Employer's pleading relied on certain express and implied terms of the contract. |
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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. |
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That sort of special pleading is unlikely to win friends and influence people on Capitol Hill. |
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His attorney says he will be pleading not guilty at his arraignment in December. |
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In the second instance, it is a man and his wife pleading from atop a donkey. |
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Avril held onto his hand her eyes pleading with sadness welling inside. |
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The boys frantically raced about pleading with newspapers not to buy the piece because their mother didn't know about their well-upholstered friend the stewardess. |
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She gave him a pleading look that he answered with a rain of kisses. |
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Cornwallis himself remained in Yorktown, pleading indisposition but perhaps unable to face the triumph of revolution. |
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There was a pleading in her voice, a wild look of hope in her eyes. |
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There is no requirement for a member of Congress to resign after pleading guilty to a felony. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The young who are not gnarled and knocked around by the old fights are tired of the overtones of special pleading. |
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Abrams was finally run to earth in 1991, pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of lying to Congress under oath, in order to avoid felony charges. |
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Without hesitation I started walking away, Billy started yelling for me, pleading for me to turn around, but I stuck my hand in the air and flipped him the bird. |
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Anyone who dares object to one of these indictments is obliged to do so in terms of their own special pleading. |
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There has clearly been an element of special pleading here, but it is not actually a plea to ministers for more cash, it is just a bald and factual statement of the problems. |
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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. |
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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. |
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There's me, pleading with my friends to let go of the emotions making them ill and here I am in my own bell jar, not for the attention but for the quiet, you see. |
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He was convicted and escaped hanging only by pleading benefit of clergy. |
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Despite pleading and begging, the evil karaoke mistress would not budge. |
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The Birchgrove bitser's owner faced Balmain Local Court on February 18, pleading guilty to owning a dog that chased a cat and to not having control of Bob in a public place. |
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It is wholly artificial to complain that the unamended pleading would have made a difference to the way in which the evidence was approached and dealt with. |
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Like the anti-Assad rebels and Kurdish fighters, they are pleading for more of America, not less. |
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On Wednesday, he had posted an emotional video on YouTube pleading with authorities to save his dog, but it fell on deaf ears. |
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In fact, he has spent the rest of 2014 publicly pleading with Patton for forgiveness. |
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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. |
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Anyway, for Scott, 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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So with Anderson's help he can parade himself before the IOC as having his hands tied by judicial process when pleading Australia is not soft on drugs in sport. |
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But governors are pleading for a breathing space to try to build up numbers, which they fear will not happen with the threat of closure hanging over the school. |
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If your idea of an insurance agent is a badly-dressed, harassed looking, middle-aged man pleading with you for a policy, you are way out of touch with reality. |
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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. |
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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. |
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That kind of special pleading is wholly unnecessary for an inerrantist. |
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Saudi officials have been pleading their country's case to the media. |
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Advocacy commonly is defined as pleading on behalf of another. |
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By pleading economic necessity, the company tacitly rules out of court all arguments based on morality or claims that they are supporting deviance. |
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The mix of pleading and extreme profanity is almost comical. |
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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. |
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He was dead, and all my pleading with him not to leave me was in vain. |
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She chose to ignore my pleading and continued with her work. |
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The only thing keeping her from decking my dad, was my pleading looks. |
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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. |
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To pursue a cause of action, a plaintiff pleads or alleges facts in a complaint, the pleading that initiates a lawsuit. |
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He alleged the DPP of Nowshera court not to pleading his case neutrally and he had taken bribe money from the opponents. |
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Rate cuts should not be seen as goodies that RBI gives out stingily after much public pleading. |
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Unless a rule or statute specifically states otherwise, a pleading need not be verified or accompanied by an affidavit. |
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The Duke of Wellington, pleading a prior commitment to attend a dinner in Birmingham, did not attend. |
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The Conformity Act required that procedures in suits at law conform to state practice usually the Field Code and common law pleading systems. |
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One of the major reforms of the late 19th century and early 20th century was the abolition of common law pleading requirements. |
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Charles immediately wrote again to France pleading for a prompt invasion of England. |
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Hamed was sentenced for 15 months after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing. |
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By these rules a further attempt was made to prune the exuberance of pleading. |
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The authors of the Judicature Act had before them two systems of pleading, both of which were open to criticism. |
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A complaint can be considered one of the more important steps in pleading during a civil case. |
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The heartbroken family of Theresa Murray, struck down by a drink-driver in 2004, are pleading with the government to act now. |
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Floyd Mangove, 22, of Hopyard Close, Leicester, was imprisoned after pleading guilty to death by dangerous driving at Leicester Crown Court. |
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I was telling them only the other day about pregnant women avoiding the Drop in the eighteenth century by pleading the belly. |
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Marcus Gallagher, of Parliament Place in Toxteth, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty to vis olent disorder. |
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The court ruled that owner Terry Swankie didn't understand his rights when pleading guilty to violating the Dangerous Dogs Act. |
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Her OSI agents were calling and texting, pleading with her to talk. |
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Last summer the firm was fined pounds 1,000 after pleading guilty to five offences of illegal flyposting. |
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The idea for UBE originated in 1988 when these two brothers from Rockland County overheard a businesswoman pleading with her movers. |
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When you draft a new pleading using Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect, place the computer file in the Pleadings subfolder. |
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Donoghue told the twins directly that he wasn't prepared to be cajoled into pleading guilty, to the anger of the twins. |
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The women were each sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2003 to kidnapping, child endangerment, and felonious assault. |
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I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso. |
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Polanski fled abroad after pleading guilty to one count of statutory rape. |
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With apologies to the sociobiologists, and pleading data limitations, we leave aside the issue of genetics in this paper. |
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Indeed, the data cited by Walters himself undermine his special pleading. |
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But after Pearl Harbor there was no longer a case for special pleading. |
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The Delhi Government and industry associations like ASSOCHAM have been pleading office-goers to carpool and Indimoto. |
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A SCHOOLBOY who wrote to David Beckham pleading with him to get him out of a telling-off from his mum has scooped a letter writing award. |
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He was placed on probation for 4 years, to begin forthwith, after pleading guilty to possession of marijauna. |
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The latter suspect, who raised an insanity defense at trial, ended up pleading guilty to second-degree murder. |
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Biller, 50, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to 14 felony counts of grand theft, forgery and filing false tax returns. |
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Colman resigned in February 2010 following an internal investigation, subsequently pleading guilty to possession of child pornography. |
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Jacqueline Cornes of Whimbrel Close, Leegomery, Telford, was jailed for six years after pleading guilty to manslaughter. |
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Combine ringing hails, raspy greeters, pleading comebacks and ultra-realistic feed chuckles and you have the Open Water Wing Nutz duck call. |
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This Blue Paper will help outline the best approach in pleading your case to an angel investor. |
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Besides pleading law cases, Pliny wrote, researched and studied. |
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Leigh Matthews, 30, pictured, wrote the post pleading with the public not to victimise all Muslims for the actions of a tiny minority of violent extremists. |
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On 4 February 2013, Chris Huhne announced that he would voluntarily leave the Privy Council after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice. |
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Babcock tracks the civil suit, from pleading through preclusions. |
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After pleading guilty to sixteen counts of premeditated murder, Bales was sentenced to life in prison without parole and dishonourably discharged from the United States Army. |
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Longing, officious, anhedonic, pleading. Anna tried to make a list of every mood she'd ever been in but ran out of words before even half of her feelings were named. |
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Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand. |
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Florence... had, all through, repaid the agony of slight and coldness, and dislike, with patient unexacting love, excusing him, and pleading for him, like his better angel! |
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The most important matter dealt with by the rules is the mode of pleading. |
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There have been an increasing number of cases pleading duress arising from the general pressure of circumstances, whether arising directly from human action or not. |
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In notice pleading, the same plaintiff bringing suit would not face dismissal for lack of the exact legal term, as long as the claim itself was legally actionable. |
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James Ian McFarlane Clark, 30, of Dunlin Court, Barry, received a 12-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty to the possession of heroin, a Class A drug. |
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Accompanied by John Wright's brother Christopher, Fawkes had also been a member of the 1603 delegation to the Spanish court pleading for an invasion of England. |
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Instead, Jerry was all placation and appeal, all softness of pleading. |
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A shopkeeper has been fined and had her liquor licence suspended after pleading guilty to making a false declaration on the licence application form. |
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Gary Smith, 46, of Coigne Terrace, Barry, was fined pounds 60 and banned from driving for six months after pleading guilty to exceeding a 30mph speed limit on Pantmawr Road. |
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The tearful backstories are wearing thin it seems, with the contestants pleading with us not to make them return to the indignity of life as a dinner lady or a shop assistant. |
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The album's title track, written by Austin, Al Kasha and Paul Duncan, is an emotional song about a mother pleading with God on behalf of her sick child. |
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Kayleigh James, 26, and Christopher Wintle, 31, were sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply. |
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