Sentence examples for pleads by from inspiring English sources

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.

But this is not special pleading by Riba.

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

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

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?

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

Finally, after 18 months and much pleading by my wife and me, Daniel was started on clozapine.

Despite pleading by Mr. Obama, the Senate on Thursday could not produce the 60 votes necessary to pass a bill eliminating $2.5 billion a year of these subsidies.

But some will require them to challenge firmly held assumptions, to work more closely together and to distance themselves from special pleading by business.

After months of pleading by the I.A.E.A., the United States turned them over to Jacques Baute, who is the director of the agency's Iraq Nuclear Verification Office.