Sentence examples for straightforward plea from inspiring English sources

As he goes to leave, he makes an untypically straightforward plea.

Three months after its decision in Mr. Thompson's case, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Mr. Smith's case, which, unlike the Thompson case, is a rather straightforward plea for a new trial.

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander was removed from the courthouse in The Hague yesterday for repeatedly interrupting the judge with complaints about his treatment, during what should have been a straightforward plea hearing.

Fraser McAlpine of BBC Music wrote that "Somebody to Love is a straightforward plea for a soul mate; it says something we've all felt".

Fraser McAlpine from BBC Chart Blog felt the "elegiac" and sad-toned chorus "makes the verses transform from a straightforward plea for dancefloor action into what sounds like a demand that everyone join Kylie for one last dance before things become spoiled forever".

"When people know there's footage of whatever has taken place we get a straightforward guilty plea because they can see themselves on the camera.

At an arraignment in March, a judge entered a straightforward not guilty plea on Mr. Holmes's behalf after his lawyers said they were not ready to enter a plea.

Onstage, Van Morrison leads his band through meticulous soul vamps and awaits the kind of vocal inspiration that turns straightforward phrases into pleas or incantations.

After the father of the Commons, 84-year-old Sir Edward Heath, had rejected pleas for a straightforward ballot to choose from the 12 contenders, it took more than six hours of cumbersome voting to complete the election as even no-hopers took their turn - to the dismay of Westminster modernisers.

In a lengthy discourse on the use of power, Mr. Christie said that strong leadership requires clear communication and straightforward negotiation — much like, say, a prosecutor plea-bargaining with a defense lawyer.

Where the relevant immigration law is "succinct and straightforward," he said, the defense lawyer must explain the consequences of a guilty plea.