Sentence examples for familiar plea from inspiring English sources

This is all code for a simple and familiar plea: Do something that will protect investors, particularly creditors who have lent a lot of money to banks and countries that now appear to be in serious difficulty.

The concept also resembles the familiar plea that we need to cut Social Security benefits today because if we wait until it may be necessary 20 years from now, the reduction will be too sudden.

In a black-and-white picture posted on the Twitter account of her educational fund, she holds up a piece of paper inscribed with the now-familiar plea: "#BringBackOurGirls".

A New York Times report of the 1988 testimony includes the radical suggestion that there should be a "sharp reduction in the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide", a plea familiar to those who have watched politicians who have traipsed up to the lectern or interviewer's microphone in Paris over the past two weeks.

Few need a prophet to know what comes next in this all-too-familiar plot: the plea to be forgiven, and understood.

That plea, lawyers familiar with the case said, resulted from a deal with prosecutors in which Mr. Murphy agreed to testify against the other defendants in exchange for a lighter sentence.

But few in the courtroom were prepared for Mr. Godineaux's guilty plea, which lawyers familiar with the case said he had been ready to make months ago.

Plea bargaining is familiar in the American, British, Canadian and other justice systems, but those from other legal traditions took some persuading of the value of the new strategy, the official said.

These pleas for time are depressingly familiar, but the Under-16s' 3-0 victory over Thailand on Tuesday showed signs of promise.

The Wall Street Journal, which also reported that Mr. Loughner would plead guilty, said Tuesday's mental status hearing had been changed to a change-of-plea hearing, citing an official familiar with the case.

"The word 'Mom' is familiar," Chi-hon observes, "and it hides a plea: Please look after me".