Even now, the co-chief executive, John Cryan, talks about a restructuring that will take five years, a timescale that looks far too relaxed if he finds himself pleading with his shareholders to give him more capital at short notice.
But 13 years on from his election as a Labour MP he has found himself pleading guilty in an Edinburgh court to breach of the peace and facing a £1,500 fine.
Nicoletti said he soon found himself pleading with a regional manager for more hours to give employees.
The councilman — arrested in 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in Lower Manhattan — found himself pleading with protesters to calm the tone.
— Stephen O'Brien once again found himself pleading for action from the international community after Russia and China blocked yet another U.N. Security Council resolution designed to alleviate Aleppo's woes.
On the island of Leros in the Dodeccanese, the governor of a psychiatric hospital has, in the past two weeks, like Lyritzis, found himself having to plead with suppliers to keep bringing food, despite an almost complete inability to pay them.
Desperate to exorcise the spectre of jackbooted gendarmes hauling parliamentarians off their green leather benches to a Luxembourg courtroom, David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, found himself at a pre-summit meeting pleading (successfully) for the word "shall" to be cut.At the same meeting the Poles displayed a touch of the vapours too.
Frightened and pleading, he wakes up and finds himself crying out on the floor of Mr. Ozu's garden cottage, his father and the old man quickly there, comforting and ready to welcome him back into the company of men.
He was found guilty or pleaded guilty in both cases, the sheriff added.
He finds refuge in ramshackle tents, pleading with generous sheikhs not to slaughter sheep for him, fearful of alerting the authorities to his presence; he picks lice out of his cloak while perched naked in a tree, before galloping away on horseback through the night to escape his pursuers once again.Following Najib's ghostly footsteps, Mr Shehadeh mourns a land lost.
