Sentence examples for extraordinary plea from inspiring English sources

He went to the Capitol to make an extraordinary plea to Republican senators not to desert him.

Mr. Roh said he had committed no illegal acts and later in the news conference he made an extraordinary plea for the public's trust.

It was his extraordinary plea for forgiveness to Mr Chikane, as he washed the cleric's feet, that led to the prosecution.

As part of an extraordinary plea deal, a copy of which was shown in court, the 20 murders he confessed to earned him a sentence of just 14 years in prison; he served only 12 before being released in 2007.

They either follow the Socialist party's extraordinary plea to vote for Bertrand to stop Le Pen, or they risk a Le Pen victory if they don't vote at all.

Nearly the entire military corps at Fort Campbell, Ky., was summoned last month to hear an anxious general make an extraordinary plea about the alarming rate of suicide by soldiers.

LAST month LeVar Burton, the host and an executive producer of "Reading Rainbow," made an extraordinary public plea to save the life of the 20-year-old show, which has lost its corporate and foundation support and may not see another dime from PBS.

Jennifer Granick, an attorney and the director for civil liberties at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford law school, writing after Swartz's death, said that ordinary prosecutorial tactics, such as the "horse-trading" that is plea-bargaining, become "extraordinary mistakes when the case is bogus or overcharged".

The US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, alleged "rampant, systemic and deep-rooted corruption", making it clear their investigation is in its early stages, despite six guilty pleas including Blazer's and the extraordinary bribery, fraud and money laundering charges in the indictment of 14 others.

In late November, with their options increasingly limited, Horn and Leonard issued a plea for Quinn to take executive action on Hood's "extraordinary" case.

Unless you use this extraordinary invention to some degree to make the cry for compassion or the plea for tolerance or whatever it is, then you deny the genius of its invention.