Sentence examples for famous plea from inspiring English sources

Sherman thus anticipated Jefferson Davis' famous plea of two years later that the South simply be left alone.

(Some were reminded of "Don't tase me, bro," the famous plea by a college student subdued with a Taser gun by the University of Florida police at a public forum with Senator John Kerry in 2007.

King's famous plea that his children be judged not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" has become the battle cry for conservative advocates of colorblind policies.

There he wrote the tragedy Emilia Galotti and his famous plea for religious tolerance in the form of Nathan the Wise, a play inspired by Mendelssohn.

I have been thinking about Rodney King because of his famous plea on camera in the aftermath of those terribly destructive LA riots.

The "Seguidilla" scene from Bizet's "Carmen" -- Ms. Rosen and Mr. Donner as Carmen and Don José, performing a duet that is arguably opera's most famous plea bargain.

One of his most effective and famous pleas had to do with a murder case.

On the third day, he made a famous, tearful plea to a forest of microphones: "Can we all get along?" It was a challenge to two centuries of fraught race relations – still resonant in the Obama era – that established King as more than just a victim.

King's famous televised, tearful plea – "Can we all get along?" – helped end the fighting, and two decades later it seemed the one-time labourer and petty thief had found his own inner peace.

Cuts would be welcome, but Sir Tom, who is famous for not listening to pleas from directors for dramatic economy, has so far resisted.

And the famous "not guilty by reason of insanity" plea is increasingly rarely used.