Sentence examples for old plea from inspiring English sources

A member of the Passaic Board of Education, Evelyn T. Robinson, said many voters knew about Mr. Rivera's old plea.

To give harsh new consequences to old plea bargains made the law impermissibly retroactive, Justice Stevens said for the court in Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr, No. 00-767.

And if weight correlated with value, I'd ask my potential benefactor for two nickels rather than our thin monetary substitute for a screwdriver when I made the old plea, "Brother, can you spare a dime?" Does the animal kingdom offer any clues about our tendency to turn physical acts into symbols?

She tried to ascertain what went wrong but his old plea simply resurfaced: "Heeelp".

When Deanna Fei, author of "A Thread of Sky," faced the age-old plea — "Don't write anything bad about China" — she had to negotiate the added complexity that it came from her ninety-two-year-old grandmother.

By Evan Osnos July 2, 2010 When Deanna Fei, author of "A Thread of Sky," faced the age-old plea — "Don't write anything bad about China" — she had to negotiate the added complexity that it came from her ninety-two-year-old grandmother.

Israel has made public a decades-old handwritten plea for clemency from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for his role in the Holocaust, dated two days before he was executed.

The 26-year-old's plea came on the eve of what would have been the first trial in a federal probe into the recruiting of US fighters for al-Shabab.

"Being Mean to Fat People Is Pointless: A Good Old-Fashioned Plea for Civility" Lindy West, Jezebel Fed up with the way Americans talk about obesity and the shame tactics used against the overweight, West provided a lesson in humanity and a reminder that "fat people are people".

"Sark is the envy of many people who would like to enjoy our quality of life," said Werner Rang, a 79-year-old Chief Pleas member.

But like many other unanswered questions in Pinter plays, the old man's plea takes on a weird, terrible urgency.