Above all stood the King's right to set up courts for important pleas and to hear, either in person or through his ministers, any appeal.
We're conditioned to believe the most important pleas for help come at three o'clock in the morning from a pay phone in the rain, mascara running down your cold face.
It's an important and timely plea because the pursuit of so-called useful educational results continues apace, and because the threats to humanistic education are indeed profound.
(Perhaps a slightly more satisfying result for the parties and the victim or survivor family, and for the public at large -- although, parenthetically, such a plea still doesn't demonstrate the defendant's acceptance of responsibility which may indeed be an important component of the plea process).
Rose Gill Hearn, the commissioner of the Investigation Department, said: "The plea is an important step forward in our investigation and a win for the city's taxpayers.
Mr. McNulty, the chief prosecutor, described today's plea as "an important victory for the people of the United States in the battle against terrorism".
Mr. Spitzer said the guilty plea set an important legal precedent that would make it harder for other Internet gateways to ignore illegal activity on their systems.
But Nancy Hersh, a lawyer who represents seven patients who were injured and the families of two who died after the procedure to insert the device, described the criminal plea as an important step forward.
Sachi A. Hamai, the county's chief executive, called the plea agreement "an important justice system milestone" and said the county had imposed new policies for overseeing leasing activity.
Let's not let the importance of lowering costs lead to an inappropriate plea to abandon an important screening test.
The Attorney General was not entirely convincing when he declared that Lindh's plea agreement was "an important victory in the war on terrorism".
