Lame pleas, such as a half-hearted "no" and a worthy lecture, are rarely worth the bother.
We can imagine the consternation in the solid bourgeois drawing room when Stevenson's letters arrived bearing pleas such as "Take me as I am..
So even though festival promotions feature earnest pleas such as "you can support movies that no one expects and everyone will be talking about," the signs of exceptional affluence are everywhere if you care to look.
He got the money from donations to his website using pathetic pleas, such as: "this night is for ALL of us... the little guys... for everyone who's had a dream that didn't come true, we're going to show the world that anything is possible.
Before big speeches on such occasions, their father's pep talks consist of a plea, such as, "Just look like you're listening".
While acknowledging that plea bargains such as the one Webster was probably offered are common and help avoid expensive and time-consuming trials, Byrne-Armstrong sthatd thacceptinging Webster's confession helped create a legal fiction that he unquestionably acted alone in both sexually assaulting and murdering Leigh.
At the U.N. climate negotiations in Warsaw on Monday, the lead Philippine delegate, Yeb Sano, made an emotional plea: "Typhoons such as Haiyan and its impacts represent a sobering reminder to the international community that we cannot afford to procrastinate on climate action".
Last week the British Phonographic Industry launched a website featuring pleas by artists such as Elbow, Kaiser Chiefs and the Cure to retain the station.
Best known for their team-up with the Moments on 1975's sublime single Girls, this Baltimore symphonic soul troupe specialised less in socially conscious R&B, a la Marvin Gaye, and more in submissive-male pleas for affection, such as the US hit I'll Erase Away the Pain.
Australia's acting Labor leader and opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, said: "I believe it seriously damages the ability of Indonesia to plead for its own citizens internationally when it is ignoring the pleas of countries such as Australia for the lives of our citizens".
They're grassroots operations from across Europe, called to arms by the desperate pleas of people such as the Starfish operation, which Melinda McRostie has been running for years (refugees have always come through Lesbos, though never in these numbers), and Philippa and Eric Kempson, an English couple living in Eftalou, nine miles along the shore from Skala.
