Sentence examples for hard pleading from inspiring English sources

During 1554 the Duchess and her son-in-law Henry Sidney worked hard pleading with the Spanish nobles around England's new king consort, Philip of Spain.

Still, the felony charge Harding pleaded guilty to yesterday falls far short of accusations made against her by Gillooly and Eckardt.

But unfortunately, I feel like all too often we are left looking back, wishing we had done more, wishing we had fought harder, plead stronger and held on longer.

But even Maurice Mizrahi would have a hard time pleading ignorance of the violation that the police have accused him of committing.

Striker Steve Mounie is not popular with the home fans either, hitting the deck hard and pleading for a free-kick from Mike Dean - that doesn't occur.

But oil money has been pouring into the government's coffers, making it hard to plead the need for austerity.

This makes it hard to plead the specifics of their case early on.

The cause of art is hard to plead in a society with a purely economic focus, but a schlptor we know..is an effective debater.

My friend swallowed hard and pleaded, somewhat disingenuously, that his job -- preparing maps, charts and diagrams for the newspaper -- was really more that of a commercial artist and not of a journalist.

By A. J. Liebling The New Yorker, June 14 , 1958P. 23 The cause of art is hard to plead in a society with a purely economic focus, but a schlptor we know..is an effective debater.

If Andersen is found actually to have advised on the design of Enron's off-balance-sheet vehicles, as the company implies, it will find it hard to plead ignorance over their construction.The Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) is investigating Andersen's audit work on Enron, and lawsuits have been filed against the firm; doubtless more light will be shed on what happened.