Sentence examples for pleaders from inspiring English sources

In France avocats were formerly an organized body of pleaders, while the preparation of cases was done by avoués; today this distinction exists only before the appellate courts.

The term has traditionally been applied to pleaders in courts of canon law, and thus in England those who practiced before the courts of civil and canon law were called advocates.

And for perhaps the first time the White House has come to see reporters as special pleaders — pleaders for more access and better headlines — as if the press were simply another interest group, and, moreover, an interest group that's not nearly as powerful as it once was.

Suddenly, Mughla, my father's notoriously unceremonious hunting guide, would roar from his lookout at the bow, "Gator time, boys!" — or, rather, "Pai chamak di hai!" The pleaders faltered, the injured and injuring parties sat down on the gunwale, crossed their legs, smoked cigarettes, chatted about village affairs.

A serious problem with any Lib-Lab deal was that Labour and the Lib Dems between them were just short of a parliamentary majority, so they would have needed the support of a bunch of provincial special pleaders — Scottish nationalists, Welsh nationalists, Northern Irish — whose price, apparently, would have been been some sort of exemption from the national budget cuts that seem inevitable.

Next, the students completed a simple assessment: Were the pleaders in the videos telling the truth?

As a pleader for the Palestinian cause, he subsequently met both President Bill Clinton and (then) Governor George Bush; after the September 11th attacks, he had a famous shouting-match about the Middle East on Fox News with Bill Reillylly, a staunch conservative defender of Israel.

In Germany, until the distinction between counselor and pleader was abolished in 1879, the Advokat was the adviser rather than the pleader.

In 1900 he set up an independent office of district pleader in Godhra, and two years later he moved to Borsad.

Patel married at the age of 16, matriculated at 22, and passed the district pleader's examination, which enabled him to practice law.

F. Doyle, V.S. who first got himself a job with the city, in the Fire Prevention Bureau under Hylan, and then became a pleader before the Board of Standards and Appeals, which is a body of five or six appointed by the Mayor, which grant concessions to people who wish to violate in letter the rigid building and zoning laws of the city.