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How to use pleas in a sentence

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It wasn't exertion that left him weak-kneed and trembling, but rather the gut-wrenching horror of Joe's scream and his pleas for mercy.
She too had been given an indication that upon such pleas being entered, the prosecution would not proceed further against her husband.
So, disclosure by the prosecutors may flush out some pleas of guilty and shorten one side of the case.
As we have seen, those structures can distance and muffle even the pleas of parents who are concerned about grave danger to their children.
Will it also turn deaf to their pleas and allow the demolition of the secular order?
The same process, involving distraints and blockade, may be used not only in pleas begun by writ, but also in pleas begun by gage and pledge.
He showed no visible sign of emotion when the guilty pleas were announced by the jury forewoman.
Agricultural authorities, it appears, are deaf to the pleas of farmers desperate to forestall an impending disaster.
Each new postal delivery brings more impassioned pleas to protect the local post office.
I desperately tried to hand out the pocketful of coupons as the frenzy grew and the kids ignored the pleas of their teachers to stop crushing me.
A husband shall answer in court in pleas concerning debts contracted by his wife before and after their marriage.
Many people made emotional and strained pleas that it should not even be a subject for discussion.
But unlike Moore, he doesn't rely on emotional pleas from hysterical moms and funny songs to lighten the mood.
Beware of charities long on emotional pleas but short on concrete examples of where the money goes, she advised.
Campaigners for an improved rail service will take their pleas for urgent action to the very top.
So, ignore the demands of the tax collectors and steel yourselves against the pleas of the children for new shoes, comrades.
The CPI has said the government refused to budge an inch despite several pleas by delegations which have met the Home Minister.
But his pleas fell on deaf ears as panic-stricken people moved towards the water.
But as far as I remember, he has always blamed me for the destruction of his bicycle, with my pleas for forgiveness falling on deaf ears.
The crew spotted another ship and flagged it down, but pleas for food fell on deaf ears, so that the crew was once again near starvation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There have been times when H. 3rd has refused my most earnest pleas that he ride his kiddie car up and down the hall.
Excus writin' pleas but I wanted to let yu no for yu was good to me and I luv yu.
He was not ashamed of his metier and allowed no threats nor pleas nor argument to disturb him.
Ultimately, very specific human emotions are affected by the rule of the corpus delicti, or the rule governing pleas in estoppel.
Campagne also pleaded guilty, and anatta and Allessandri entered special pleas of voluntary manslaughter.
The demand is moderate, and at the decennial revision pleas for reduction are indulgently considered.
Peter Craig, 25, ignored the boy's pleas to go home as he was ill for five hours at Craig's home in Stenhousemuir, Stirlingshire.
Captain Dan's pleas for quiet evenings together at home went for nought.
However, his pleas are nothing if not risible as he declares his support for private enterprise in which he claims 'an unshakeable faith.
And would these pleas diminish your desire to have his heart's blood?
The government may assert counterclaims seeking setoffs based on a special pleas in fraud, under the False Claims Act or the Contract Disputes Act.
On the contrary, he was masterful in whatever he did, but he had a trick of whimsical wheedling that Dede found harder to resist than the pleas of a suppliant lover.
Roger Hogg, 47, wants to find out if the council ignored pleas for help from his sister, who was head of Glendinning Terrace Primary in Galashiels, Selkirkshire, for 19 years.
With sticks and knives the man's companions fell upon the beast, while Paulvitch danced around the cursing snarling pack mumbling and screaming pleas and threats.
Pleas as to Freddy's character, and the moral obligation on him to earn his own living, were lost on Higgins.
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