Sentence examples for we cannot plead from inspiring English sources

(Aha!) As he cautions us early in part 2, "Sign: The Domain of the Poem," the most obscure, his exposition will be unruly and interrupted, so we cannot plead ignorance, and, indeed, before long argument and analysis will be foreshadowed, recapitulated, approximated, contravened, and surrendered, only to be resumed unexpectedly and parsed anew.

We cannot plead ignorance or inexperience.

You cannot plead "WE DID NOT KNOW".

You cannot plead "WE DID NOT KNOW". Television brings the flaming villages into the safety of your home.

We hold then, that in a jail suicide case, a negligent defendant cannot plead, in mitigation of damages, the fact that a plaintiff, to whom she owed a duty, violated a standard of care for his own protection.

Here Israel cannot plead innocence.

Ministers cannot plead ignorance.

The government cannot plead ignorance.

The agency cannot plead ignorance.

But it cannot plead this as a superior right.

Tax revenues are buoyant, so the government cannot plead poverty.