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.