The Court observed that the complaint in this case would have survived a motion to dismiss because it pled "a reasonably conceivable set of facts" calling into question the sufficiency of the price offered and thus the committee's negotiations.
Every member of the team will take part in today's victory celebration -- don't call it a parade, pleaded a member of the team's public relations department -- in the parking lot outside Continental Arena, where the Devils will ride around in their cars with family and friends.
It pleads for a place for a dying patient to rest and eat and get his strength back for a few days, and a place for a mentally ill man to be observed, evaluated and treated.
Mr. Shane looks back on a Pentagon Papers affidavit written in 1971 by Max Frankel, then The Times's Washington bureau chief and later its executive editor, which described Washington reality: "The government hides what it can, pleading necessity as long as it can, and the press pries out what it can, pleading a need and a right to know.
As one of my predecessors, Max Frankel, wrote…: "For the vast majority of 'secrets,' there has developed between the government and the press (and Congress) a rather simple rule of thumb: The government hides what it can, pleading necessity as long as it can, and the press pries out what it can, pleading a need and a right to know.
While it pleads for a "whole of government" approach to our security, the focus of that "whole of government" is intended to pull all the US civilian architecture into the dark hole of perceived growing global violence and threat, to support military planning and deployment, focusing our civilian institutions on the way DOD should see the world.
"Please kill me," it pleaded.
When you think about it, pleading with death is an ultimately futile proposition.
Signed by more than 2,000 physicians around the country, it pleads with lawmakers to lift a restriction that for nearly two decades has essentially blocked the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting research on gun violence.
It's a plead, a protest, a refutation, a resignation, and many other things.
