Sentence examples for I can plead from inspiring English sources

All I can plead in mitigation was that I was not alone.

And you know, I can plead guilty to that," he said.

We had pressures from patients, and sometimes we gave in when we shouldn't, and I can plead guilty.

"But I can plead with him to contain his anger, because angry people often do stupid things, and they end up hurting themselves.

But I can plead with you here today, for us to campaign relentlessly for our peers who are wrongfully imprisoned, particularly in Ethiopia.

I can plead some mitigation: the plans were already well-evolved by the time I became chair in May 2006, and I had little power to change them.

It can be tearful or languid, startled or adamant; it can plead or mourn or offer an uncertain solace.

If a creature has documentation that describes it as "captive-bred," whoever buys it can plead ignorance as to whether it was actually poached in the wild.

Mr. Shane looks back on a Pentagon Papers affidavit written in 1971 by Max Frankel, then The Times's Washington bureau chief and later its executive editor, which described Washington reality: "The government hides what it can, pleading necessity as long as it can, and the press pries out what it can, pleading a need and a right to know.

As one of my predecessors, Max Frankel, wrote…: "For the vast majority of 'secrets,' there has developed between the government and the press (and Congress) a rather simple rule of thumb: The government hides what it can, pleading necessity as long as it can, and the press pries out what it can, pleading a need and a right to know.

W. Matthew Wilson Jury rigged THE LAST TIME I was called for jury duty in Los Angeles' Criminal Court, I wrote about the intrusive questions jurors must answer while criminal defendants can plead the Fifth Amendment (Transparent Eyeball, Mar. 25, 1996).