He is not pleading here; he is straight up mackin', self-assured and full of promises.
But I want to plead here -- these reflections are fundamental.
I plead here for an attitude that does not treat China as a colony, or as a country of second rank that we can bully at our leisure (remember Google as another example where the same Hillary Clinton interfered in a commercial dispute when she should have kept silent).
There's no special pleading here; if there's any special pleading going on, it's the one in favor of craft and professionalism in other words, industrial standards over inspiration, originality, passion, and art.
"We are not putting in any special pleading here," Solomon said, "but falling author incomes, and the narrowing of what money there is towards top 'brand name' authors, is not healthy for the publishing industry, nor for society as a whole".
(She didn't mention journalists, but I plead guilty here).
[Laying the mimed report in front of me, now shouting, sobbing and pleading] Here's our pathetic performance!"' Ballmer snorted, pleased with the acting job, then caught the eye of the company P.R. rep.
A North Carolina man who stole more than $17 million from an armored car company in October 1997 before fleeing to Mexico pleaded guilty here today.
More and more journalism about the old – and I plead guilty here – focuses on their financial hardships, the wish of many to work longer and the appalling level of state provision for the very old and frail.
The Bergen County sheriff, Joseph L. Ciccone, 40, pleaded guilty here on Jan . 11to two counts of illegal fund-raising and was forced from office, after a seven-month investigation into his department by the state attorney general and the county prosecutor.
