Sentence examples for plea for delay from inspiring English sources
Senators have been appropriately skeptical of his plea for delay.
Wall Street firms holding the bonds began selling them, ignoring Mr. Citron's pleas for delay.
The parliament voted on March 11th to amend the constitution, ignoring pleas for delay from the European Commission, the Council of Europe and America's State Department.
And this month U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied Mr. Donziger's plea for a delay in the trial, expressing skepticism that he and his backers did not have the money to hire another lawyer.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Denied his plea for a delay, Rep. Charles Rangel walked out of his ethics trial Monday, leaving the ethics committee's top lawyer to cite Rangel's past statements in arguing that the 20-term New York Democrat violated House rules.
The prime minister's plea for him to delay resigning was just a way of trying to play him, he concluded.
One of Mr. Traficant's colleagues in the Ohio delegation, Representative Steven C. LaTourette, a Republican and former prosecutor, made a last plea for the House to delay its decision until September, after Mr. Traficant's expected sentencing next week and after courts could hear some of his legal motions seeking a new trial and other relief.
Defendants often delay their plea for as long as possible until they can see the strength of the prosecution evidence.
