" 'Lost New York' makes a considered plea for two things: the preservation of historic structures and conservation of the city's essential form," William Alex wrote in these pages.
As her case proceeded toward the Supreme Court, her plea, among other things, asked the Court to overturn Grutter.
A recent string of desperate-sounding Democratic fundraising emails caught the attention of Jon Stewart on Monday night, and he did his usual best with mocking frantic pleas that said things like "Kiss any hope goodbye" and "We're done.
"Accepting this plea means to accept things I did not do, which I find very difficult".
It was a demand but also a plea, perhaps, that these things not be lost or forgotten when, a few hours later, she slipped away in her favourite armchair.
The ensuing pitch -- plainspoken nostalgia masked as a plea for the way things used to be -- was one of the most affecting in the history of "Mad Men," a monologue on par with any creator Matthew Weiner has written during the show's seven-season run.
The stakes are high but after many long nights of haggling and last-minute pleas from American officials, things usually settle down.
Indeed, the world he represents in his 1943 short play, "The Purification," is a plea for that very thing — the expiation of guilt and sin.
Daniel C. Richman, a professor of law at Columbia University and a former federal prosecutor, said Tejada's plea appeared to indicate two things.
This is the second time in ten days I find myself concluding by turning to, of all things, the closing plea for mercy by Clarence Darrow in a murder trial.
