"Our less modest plea is that thought should be given to replacing jury awards with a system of civil fines".
Muizelaar had heard a similar, if less graphic, plea from Harold Young, until recently the chair of neurosurgery at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, in Richmond, where, in 1981, he obtained a fellowship, his first job in the United States.
"Come on don't be nervous!" Sexton, who is seventy years old, asked Nightwine how he had enjoyed his first year of college, and then urged him to smoke less, a plea that he frequently makes to students.
Studies have shown that potential voters respond far less to pleas about civic virtue than to messages that make them feel shame for not voting.
In fact, some say, prosecutors are less generous with plea offers and at times force their clients into trials.
On Thursday, however, in his first public appearance with Jay H. Walder, the authority's new chairman, Mr. Bloomberg's fiery words had been replaced by something less aggressive: a plea for patience.
Before "Despite Everything," one of his most tender and evocative older songs, he told the sparse crowd, "This is a quiet song — it would be amazing if you could actually come forward," which, in his Rome-by-way-of-London accent, sounded less like a plea and more like a seduction.
All the same, the polls show that he is coasting to re-election, which makes his manifesto less of a plea for votes than a list of measures the government will soon be under pressure to live up to.But what a familiar list.
The prosecutor was unwilling to make Love an offer of anything less than a plea to the top charge and seven days of sessions with Bronx Community Solutions.
That plea looks less and less convincing as one re-reads the tale of the bank's catastrophe.
