Sentence examples for plea of poverty from inspiring English sources

"However, the brief order issued today seem to include a plea of poverty and is inexplicable," said the public utility commissioners group's president, Tony Clark of North Dakota.

"If they need help, why should they not receive it as well?"Yet to critics Mr Bossio's plea of poverty rings hollow.

"Outsized" fines and penalties for past misconduct "are not proportionate to our smaller size", grumbled McFarlane, a plea of poverty that jars with the fact that Barclays still managed to dig deep and pay 323 employees more than £1m last year.

The best thing the show has going for it is its tacit plea of poverty: Help this museum collect some decent drawings before it's too late!

The charge also cites the NBA's failure to supply adequate financial data so the union can determine whether its "plea of poverty" is based on real facts.

Such pleas of poverty are probably exaggerated.

Byers called their bluff, taking their pleas of poverty at face value and declaring the business insolvent.

The commercial banks, led by Deutsche Bank, that run the London Club negotiations with Russia, have tolerated its pleas of poverty, perhaps with an eye to future business there.

The committee was set up by the government under Mr Davies, an eminent economist, in response to pleas of poverty by the BBC.

But the proposed settlement came after an emergency board appointed by the White House ignored management's pleas of poverty and awarded the mechanics a 37percentt pay increase.

He seems to think that his threats and his pleas of poverty will soften up allies so that, once in the White House, he can close some of those great deals he often talks about.