Sentence examples for may be pleading from inspiring English sources

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The so-called NatWest Three may be pleading guilty to stealing $7.3m through a fraudulent Enron-related deal, but relatives and friends are fighting a rearguard battle to rescue their tarnished image as judicial martyrs.

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Parliamentary arithmetic and the need for a broad anti-austerity front may be pleaded in mitigation, but it remains baffling how little criticism for this choice Syriza has received from leftist admirers elsewhere.

It is true that a covenant never to sue after the breach of a contract, though a stipulation respecting the remedy to be pursued, may be allowed as a bar to an action upon it; but this is upon the ground that a covenant never to »ue is, in legal effect, equivalent to a release, and, to avoid circuity of action, may be pleaded by way of release.

It may be pleaded, that Congress had never any definitive powers granted them and of course could exercise none--could do nothing more than recommend.

If history is any guide, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard may soon be pleading for the return of their favorite nemeses.

Its attempts at censorship were, despite Cervantes, farcical.All that, and more, may reasonably be pleaded in extenuation and Mr Kamen does so convincingly.

While the earlier decision may be comity be given great weight in a later litigation and thus persuade the court to render a like decree, it is not res adjudicata and may not be pleaded as a defense.' 297 U.S., at 642, 56 S.Ct., at 647.

But the prevailing, and the better opinion is, that the truth may, in all cases, be pleaded by way of justification, in a private action for damages, arising from written or printed defamation, as well as in an action for slanderous words.

Police, however, are pleading with anyone who suspects they may be a victim to do so.

Various offices are pleading for gas masks, but the authorities in both houses are warning they may not be useful.

He was pleading for time.

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