As the pathologist Sidney Farber, whose experiments on children with leukemia yielded one of the first chemotherapy drugs, pleaded before a Senate committee in 1971, "The three hundred and twenty-five thousand patients with cancer who are going to die this year cannot wait. . . .
If the defendants plead before those indictments are brought, they will not be subject to those charges.
The tribunal has yet to determine whether foreign lawyers may even appear to plead before it.The chances that the trials will win international recognition appear slim.
Only recently have unmarried adult women begun to plead before judges to be freed from the legal guardianship of their own fathers.
"The beast won't go to sleep," he pleads, before rasping: "I'd howl at your beauty / Like a dog in heat".
My wife and I are pleading before the local school board for more attention to math and science and you would think we were from Mars.
"Whatever happened to a second chance in life?" Price pleaded before a group of players, fans and reporters, his voice alternately breaking and resolute during a parting soliloquy delivered from scribbled notes.
"I thought about you and Pernille and the boys and I knew that you would be upset about it," he pleads before trying to excuse his actions: "Sometimes you just can't tell what's going to happen".
But the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos.
Court records show him pleading before Lord Mansfield in the Court of King's Bench soon after his election, and acting as counsel in Tonson v Collins, a copyright case, Thiquet v Bath, an important case on international law, and R v d'Eon, acting for the prosecution in a feud over Louis XV's newly appointed cross-dressing Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
