Sentence examples for pleading by from inspiring English sources

But this is not special pleading by Riba.

If that sounds like special pleading by a convicted felon, he may nevertheless have a point.

At its worst, this interest degenerated into excessive special pleading by uncritical Furtwängler admirers.

Isn't this just special pleading by the BBC to want it all?

The statement is technically known as "pleading by exceptions and substitutions".

You can help, Mr. President, because the soccer overlords are rather partial to personal pleading by heads of state.

The poverty so often pleaded by the poet is undoubtedly exaggerated; apparently his genius for spending kept pace with his capacity for earning.

Arguments for equal protection of spending on education at all stages in life are not special pleads by bleeding-heart liberals, but based on decades of firm evidence.

"Please let's keep this professional," Juan Rodriguez, a Citi Habitats broker, pleaded by e-mail to a seller's lawyer after a volley of acrimonious messages sent in connection with the sale of a condo in Turtle Bay.

It broke a promise to shut its military base in Abkhazia by July, pleading protests by the locals, who see Russia as their protector.

First, criminal cases cannot be resolved without conviction through plea bargaining or by pleading not guilty by reason of insanity in Sweden.