Sentence examples for no plea that from inspiring English sources

In fact, the animosity of the Gothic rank and file against the Romans was made clear over and over again, and no plea that might have held it in check was left unused by the King.

Mr. Craig, sources said, was understanding, but on Wednesday expressed some hope of finishing out his term — a plea that met no response.

Cynically, we should probably also wonder whether Kennedy (or Palmerston) actually knew that their cherished slogan had first become a Roman commonplace after being uttered as a desperate plea from a tragic Sicilian as he was pinned to a cross and illegally crucified by a rogue Roman provincial governor in the first century BCE – a plea that had no effect whatsoever.

He entered no plea in that case; he was accepted into a pretrial diversion program, which he successfully completed.

That fateful meeting led to Radomski's cooperation with Mitchell and, ultimately, to a guilty plea that resulted in probation but no jail time.

It is a plea that will fall on deaf ears.

It was a plea that fell on deaf ears.

It says such a change would devastate the nation's farms, a plea that has resonated in the wider public.

It's a tightly wound slow burner, a plea that comes from a place of certainty, not desperation.

It is a plea that needs to be heeded, before it is too late.

That is one reason Vick's lawyers are considering a guilty plea that would avoid a new indictment.