Sentence examples for and pleading in the from inspiring English sources

Wide-eyed and pleading in the witness box, he adopted the manner of a schoolboy caught stealing from the tuck shop.

Culleton faces a high court challenge to his eligibility from former associate Ian Bruce Bell based on a larceny conviction that was recorded before the July election, and pleading in the alternative that a recent court judgment could make him bankrupt or insolvent.

In England lawyers are divided into barristers, who plead in the higher courts, and solicitors, who do office work and plead in the lower courts.

Despite the inevitably positive test, despite constant diarrhea, despite watching his wardmates die around him, every day Gabriel told me that he was better, his optimism belied by the fear and pleading in his eyes.

Mr. Coppin's aunt, Betty Jones, said that his mother, Denise Owens, tried all day to summon the counselors and pleaded in vain for them to stay when they finally arrived.

Another man was eventually arrested and pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of the Orange policewoman, Joyce Carnegie.

To recover, the King's Bench undertook a scheme of revolutionary reform, creating less expensive, faster and more versatile types of pleading in the form of bills as opposed to the more traditional writs.

About 15 girls featured in the new video, saying they were from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok and pleading with the Nigerian government to cooperate with Boko Haram on their release.

"People will remember patients, nurses, doctors and midwives lining up in their thousands and pleading with the government to call it off.

As deputy, he worked passionately to eliminate the abuses of colonialism and pleaded the cause of blacks in the Assembly.

One of the suspects later turned himself in and pleaded guilty to the crime, but the singer revealed he's been on a "higher level of alert" ever since.