Sentence examples for plea a from inspiring English sources

It's a beautiful plea — "a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last".

Trent D. Thomas, exercised his right not to enter a plea, a common tactic.

Over and over, the plea, a pitiful mass of green mucus beneath her nose and chin.

The word became a moan, a plea, a taunt, a warning and an exorcism.

Immediately after the plea, a Bergen County undersheriff, Gordon Johnson, became acting sheriff.

A House Labor subcommittee gave his plea a most sympathetic hearing and indicated it would advance the bill.

Mr. Williams, who did not speak during the proceedings, before Judge Ann R. Bartlett, was not required to enter a plea -- a move that might not come for weeks as a grand jury weighs whether to indict him.

Kramer, then 52, entered a so-called Alford plea ― a type of guilty plea that acknowledges the strength of the evidence but allows the defendant to maintain innocence ― to three counts of child molestation. .

In that regard, in April 1992, about nine months after Father Díaz's deportation, the Brooklyn diocese wrote a letter to the archbishop in Mérida that referred to Father Díaz's "painful situation" in New York and his guilty plea a year earlier.

(Reuters) EUROPE BOSNIA: WAR CRIMES PLEA -- A former Bosnian Serb police chief admitted committing war crimes, then dropped complaints that American troops illegally arrested him.

Deborah Sontag (NYT) ISRAEL: CHINA PLANE PLEA -- A leading cabinet member, Haim Ramon, left, told Israeli Radio that Israel should halt the sale of a $250 million airborne radar system to China in order to repair frayed ties with Washington.