LIKE the revolutionary slogans that once wailed from loudspeakers, workers in China's state enterprises have got used to regular pleas from Beijing to become more efficient.
Mr Mandela's regular pleas for whites to remain, and coercive policies, such as a proposal by the health minister, Nkosazana Zuma, that doctors should have to repay the government for their medical training if they refuse to work in South Africa, may stem the tide a little.
The Obama campaign used its mammoth email list of supporters, normally subjected to regular daily pleas for donations, to urge them to offer financial help to the American Red Cross.
Smith herself made regular, heartbreaking, televised pleas for her children's return.
Thus most retributivists would accept that it is justifiable to forego punishing one deserving person if doing so would make it possible to punish two equally deserving people, or one more deserving person as happens on a regular basis in plea-bargaining (Moore 1997: 157 158; Berman 2011: 451 452).
But pleas by regular prisoners about these and other issues almost always go unheard.
But when it came time to vote repeal legislation in late July, there was Graham voting yes, even though leadership had ignored his pleas for regular order, and there was Cassidy right there alongside him, even though the bills would have violated the Kimmel test by depriving millions of coverage.
A tribunal to hear his plea to be transferred to a regular prison was delayed after a judge ruled he was too ill to attend.
While Cree is applying to N.Y.U. in the regular-decision round, several deans said Mr. Abbott's plea for deliberation and patience was also good advice for those applying to selective colleges through their early application programs.
This simple formula's typical "sectarianism" was combined with a strong catholic impulse: a plea for the union of all Christians, the regular celebration of the Lord's Supper in weekly worship, and the use of inclusive biblical names.
