Do we detect a note of pleading there?
When Gladstone resigned, Disraeli refused to take office, pleading there was too much uncompleted business to dissolve Parliament, and that a minority government could only damage his party's prospects.
It was staffed by one Chief Justice and a varying number of puisne justices, who were required to be Serjeants-at-Law, and until the mid 19th century only Serjeants were allowed to plead there.
And if you're in the mood for a family friendly light drama with some tuneful music and you can't watch High School Musical again no matter how much your kids plead, there are worse things in the world than Hannah Montana: The Movie.
They had only four kids in their family, she pleaded — surely there was room for more.
"No such defence could be properly pleaded, since there simply was no evidence to support it," the ruling said.
The fact that Risse pleaded ignorance ("there were 80 000 people in the ground, I didn't see Subotic and didn't hear any shouts to stop play") only enraged Watzke more.
If he had pleaded guilty, there'd be no record of West's role in the conviction.
There's no begging with them, there's no pleading, there's no humanity in them.
Whenever congressional leadership pleads: "There just isn't time," they need to hear the forceful response of: "There is time!
