Sentence examples for plead against from inspiring English sources

Macbeth knows that Duncan's virtues, like angels, "trumpet-tongued," will plead against "the deep damnation of his taking-off" (Act I, scene 7, lines 19 20).

Several arguments strongly plead against a too precipitous verdict on NS.

There might be further reasons why an exception for cosmetics was taken up in the CLP Regulation, but the arguments listed here that plead against this exception are strong.

The company even sent its Tacoma-bred president, Leo Hindery, to the town last year to plead against building the system, to no avail.

Related: Family of Pakistani Prisoner Convicted at 14 Plead Against Execution as Final Appeal Fails.

Despite signs pleading against the habit, every single seat is reserved with a towel.

A few weeks ago, JS Kabylie pleaded against Caf's two-year ban in the Court of Arbitration of Sport.

Thomas Mann, in 1933, famously pleaded against making anachronistic judgements about Wagner's nationalism, and that's fair enough.

Chris Davies, a British member of the European Parliament and an outspoken opponent of proposed regulation, said he received hundreds of messages from e-cigarette users pleading against heavier regulation.

After virtuous years in the provinces as a lawyer, often pleading against unjust convictions of the old regime, he arrived in Paris as the Revolution was beginning.

Parliament, also at odds with her, was offended by her discourtesy to their delegates pleading against the Spanish marriage: "My marriage is my own affair," she retorted.