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But the plea failed to sway OPEC.

Counsel remarked that "seldom in the history of libel actions has such a plea failed so completely and utterly".

As Barnes began his testimony on the second day of proceedings, Raith's counsel announced settlement of the case and commented to the court, "... seldom in the history of libel actions has such a plea failed so completely and utterly".

The pleas failed, and Mr. Rojas was executed on Dec. 4, 2002.

Captain Veath's pleas failed, and senior American and Iraqi commanders mounted an urgent effort to regain the lost ground.

But their pleas failed to persuade the Communications Authority of Kenya to change its mind and reconcile with the TV stations.

She said they, rather than the Crown Prosecution Service, would have the power to prosecute 500,000 uncontested traffic cases where defendants either did not enter a plea or failed to turn up at court.

They're not going to get that by hiring Andersen," Douglas Carmichael, an accounting professor at Baruch College, told Forbes.com when earlier plea negotiations failed.

Negotiations for a plea bargain failed at the end of summer 2002.

Ignoring American pleas, he failed to support the Sahwa, or Awakening, a 100,000-strong 100,000-strongorce that in 2007-08 helped Sunnih civil war by hounding tribalists, including the progenitors oforceS.

Mr. Wheeler, Mr. McLeod, Steve Williams and John Williams had faced the most serious charge, aggravated manslaughter, in the failed plea deal.