Sentence examples for trying to plead from inspiring English sources

It's all fairly polite stuff, as if they're both trying to plead innocence over something.

It shows Grant trying to plead his innocence as he is cuffed and held face-down on the platform.

And that is still easier than going to a traditional employer and trying to plead your case.

In 1996, Mr. Zhao began taking his camera to a shantytown in Beijing called the Petitioners' Village, where people with grievances from all over the country camp out while trying to plead their case at the central petition office.

"I feel like I'm always trying to plead my case," said Kelly Gangwer, 30, who had been with her fiancé, Christopher Stewart Gray, a foreign exchange broker at Cantor Fitzgerald, since college.

After trying to plead guilty to charges that he conspired in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui withdrew the guilty plea today and insisted again that he was not involved in the hijackings.

Harrington tried to plead his case to the lead referee, Scott Foster, to no avail.

But when a police officer tried to plead guilty to civil rights violations on Monday, something unusual happened.

When Robinson overheard Koger relaying that story Monday, he blushed with embarrassment and tried to plead down some details.

But Mr. El-Hage's decision to try to plead guilty was clearly a surprise to all others involved.

She said she would bar prosecutors from mentioning at trial that he had tried to plead guilty today.