I think this gets back to the idea of the self as something deployed in service of inquiry -- rather than self-exposure as some plea for attention or sympathy or praise.
Last fall, he resisted some Republicans' pleas for aid.
Some are pleas for help; others are outpourings of frustration.
But a straw poll suggests that many will raise fees this autumn by 2-4%.That is because, despite some parents' pleas for financial help, schools are under little pressure to cut fees.
The SEC did bend to some industry pleas for less onerous rules.
Yet for 228 different sites, presumably with a number of different owners, hosts, registrars, countries of origin, and so on, it seems there might be some individual defenses, pleas for time or clemency, or what have you.
So far, it has given nothing, despite Mr. Franks's pleas for some support.
Then there are the simple pleas for some of the thousands missing to please come home, please.
The prime minister also seems to have scotched proposals from Ken Clarke, the justice secretary, which would offer reduced jail sentences in exchange for early guilty pleas for some offenders.
In Forest Grove, though, T.A. was in public school from kindergarten until his junior year, receiving extensive in-home help from his mother and older sister to move from grade to grade but unable to get special-education services, despite his mother's pleas for "some method of teaching more appropriate for him".
