plea

[pliː]

Definition:
1. An urgent emotional request.
2. A humble request for help from someone in authority.

Use 'plea' in a sentence:

1. I am willing to consider a plea in this case.
2. I also think we must do something about the insanity plea.
3. In making that plea he will breathe in vain.
4. Considering of its defects, we must be careful when transplanting plea bargaining into China.
5. We will enter a plea of not guilty.
6. He fences his doctrines with the specious plea that statesmen mustlive as the world lives.
7. She leave the party on the plea of a headache.
8. At the hearing, her attorney did not enter a plea.
9. He was charged with murder, but got off on a plea of insanity.
10. Her plea of guilty to manslaughter through provocation was rejected.
11. They were deaf to all our pleas.
12. His June guilty plea was part of a deal to avoid execution.
13. He was absent under the plea of illness.
14. A plea bargain was offered by the state assuring her that she would not go to prison.
15. Given that, we would support a plea of insanity.
16. The founder’s plea worked.
17. The manager will make a special plea to draft the player into his squad as a replacement.
18. My strong plea: don't cave in.
19. His plea unimpressed the vast majority of shareholders present.
20. But many people in Kazakhstan have a plea: not too fast.
21. Phillips murdered his wife, but got off on a plea of insanity.
22. He reached a plea bargain with the authorities.
23. She made an impassioned plea for help.
24. It was less a plea for immediate action than for an affirmation of purpose.
25. His impassioned pleas went unheard.
26. He will respond to the prayer of the destitute ; he will not despise their plea.
27. The prisoner's plea for pardon was rejected.
28. She put in a plea of guilty.
29. Her plea was that she did not see the signal.
30. He refused to listen to her tearful pleas.
31. This is not the first time I've made this plea.
32. Mr Dunn's pleas of poverty are only partly justified.
33. Seventeen prisoners held on death row are to be executed after their pleas for clemency were turned down.
34. Mr Kudrin's plea to see his deputy and let him out on bail was ignored.
35. They cried for mercy but their pleas were met with abuse and laughter.
36. a plea to industries to stop pollution.
37. They made no plea for relief.
38. A judge accepted her plea that she was guilty of manslaughter, not murder.
39. He bolstered his plea with new evidence.
40. In a failed start, Michael Vick has filed his plea agreement with the federal court.
41. The court recorded a plea of not guilty.
42. I conjure you to hear my plea.
43. The judge questioned him about his guilty plea.
44. But what amounted to a plea deal ended the case.
45. More and more criminals will agree to plea-bargain.
46. We shall not offer that plea.
47. His plea came last night as party chiefs held an inquest into the election disaster.
48. The judge rejected pleas for leniency and sentenced him to six months in prison.
49. The district court ruled that Popper's silence in court today should be entered as a plea of not guilty.
50. But last month, Lane changed his plea to guilty.
51. No plea can be set up on the ground of ignorance.
52. He entered a plea of “ not guilty ” to the charges filed against him.
53. The defence lawyer made an eloquent plea for his client's acquittal.
54. Mr. Nicholas made his emotional plea for help in solving the killing.
55. On Tuesday, Slater’s Legal Aid lawyer, Howard Turman, entered Slater’s not-guilty plea.
56. So, I listened as my son made his plea to his mom and me.
57. He entered a plea of " not guilty " to the charges filed against him.
58. This cumbersome, artificial procedure is avoided by using the exception rule in guilty or nolo contendere plea cases.
59. Readers joined some authors in a plea to J.K. Rowling not to kill off Harry Potter in the seventh and final book.
60. The naughty boy left the classroom on the plea of a headache.
61. Mr Nicholas made his emotional plea for help in solving the killing.
62. The provincial assembly were deaf to all pleas for financial help.