Read the Document » MARCH 8, 2008 | BAGRAM AIR BASE Meeting Report: A Plea for Help Toward the end of a long meeting with top American military commanders, during which he delivered a briefing about the security situation in eastern Afghanistan, corruption in the government and Pakistan's fecklessness in hunting down militants, Afghanistan's top spy laid out his problem.
We could tell them that we were not unsympathetic toward their plea for justice.
She went from cubicle to cubicle, guiding us toward a plea: Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal, or A.C.D.
Mr. Levy's plea for good will toward negligent doctors lacks compassion for the true victims of medical negligence.
One summer day in New Iberia, just down the road from St Martinville, Judge Thibodeaux turns toward a plea box of a dozen poor defendants.
Rodriguez is facing criminal charges stemming from the incident, although his lawyer and the Queens district attorney's office are working toward a plea bargain that would presumably keep Rodriguez out of prison.
The judge's action was a surprising twist, but no more so than Ms. Olson's attitude toward her plea, insisting that it was a fraud moments after entering it in clear, unequivocal tones.
And so we get a pileup of statistics on all sorts of topics — example: 15 percent of all birds are under imminent threat of extinction — building toward a plea in these hyper-acquisitive times to consume not just less "but a lot less".
Still, Cook, a first-year umpire, reacted after Mazzilli's plea, even as Knoblauch headed toward the dugout.
