Sentence examples for plea to reduce from inspiring English sources

To the Editor: I applaud Thomas Leo Ogren's plea to reduce pollen in our cities, but his solutions require a fair amount of botanical knowledge.

Last month, a report on juvenile lifers published by the American Civil Liberty Union of Michigan documented the degree to which prosecutors' personal biases may influence which juveniles plea to reduce charges.

Walker talks to a range of interviewees including Mikhail Gorbachev and Tony Blair – who appears to rediscover his leftist youth with a plea to reduce nuclear weapons to zero  – and argues that the threat of a nuclear explosion has never gone away, but could be closer to coming true now than at any other time.

There is worldwide plea to reduce carbon dioxide emission.

But discontent with the heavy American presence and a growing perception that the central government is ignoring Okinawans' pleas to reduce it have made an increasing number of islanders willing to at least flirt publicly with the idea of breaking apart in a way that local politicians and scholars say they have not seen in decades.

A suspect who pleads not guilty may wait weeks, months or even a year for trial, as police and prosecutors offer plea deals to reduce a sentence.

Esparza, who is married and has a four-year-old daughter, was led away in handcuffs from a court hearing on Thursday, her bail revoked, after rejecting a plea deal to reduce the charge from murder to voluntary manslaughter.

Brushing aside signs of plunging business confidence and stagnating growth across Europe, the European Central Bank once again rebuffed widespread pleas today to reduce interest rates and stimulate the economy.

At an open meeting of the board's investment committee on September 13th, the treasurer of a small Californian utility made a plea for CalPERS to reduce volatility in its portfolio.

The lawyer, Masoud Shafie, was quoted as saying that Swiss officials, who represent American interests in Iran, were making the plea for officials to reduce the bail for the hiker, Sarah E. Shourd.

In a piece for the New Yorker, Louis Menand argued that Sartre was a "womaniser" and De Beauvoir a "classic enabler", going so far as to suggest that she feigned bisexuality to please him, and that parts of The Second Sex were written as a plea to him, reducing one of the 20th century's greatest intellectual works to a marital squabble.