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Pleader
noun
A person, such as an advocate, who pleads.
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As a pleader for the Palestinian cause, he subsequently met both President Bill Clinton and (then) Governor George Bush; after the September 11th attacks, he had a famous shouting-match about the Middle East on Fox News with Bill Reillylly, a staunch conservative defender of Israel.
In Germany, until the distinction between counselor and pleader was abolished in 1879, the Advokat was the adviser rather than the pleader.
In 1900 he set up an independent office of district pleader in Godhra, and two years later he moved to Borsad.
F. Doyle, V.S. who first got himself a job with the city, in the Fire Prevention Bureau under Hylan, and then became a pleader before the Board of Standards and Appeals, which is a body of five or six appointed by the Mayor, which grant concessions to people who wish to violate in letter the rigid building and zoning laws of the city.
She had collected dozens of tapes, along with the eventual outcomes of their cases — approximately half the time, it turned out that the pleader was, in fact, guilty of the crime in question.
Tells about his further training and qualification for the practice of law, after which he enrolled as a court pleader & started practicing law in the Lahore District Court.
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He was no bleeding heart, no cause-pleader.
In France avocats were formerly an organized body of pleaders, while the preparation of cases was done by avoués; today this distinction exists only before the appellate courts.
The term has traditionally been applied to pleaders in courts of canon law, and thus in England those who practiced before the courts of civil and canon law were called advocates.
And for perhaps the first time the White House has come to see reporters as special pleaders — pleaders for more access and better headlines — as if the press were simply another interest group, and, moreover, an interest group that's not nearly as powerful as it once was.
Suddenly, Mughla, my father's notoriously unceremonious hunting guide, would roar from his lookout at the bow, "Gator time, boys!" — or, rather, "Pai chamak di hai!" The pleaders faltered, the injured and injuring parties sat down on the gunwale, crossed their legs, smoked cigarettes, chatted about village affairs.
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