Synonym: appeal, asking, defense, excuse, petition, request. Similar words: plead, apple, people, sample, temple, couple, purple, complex. Meaning: [plɪː] n. 1. a humble request for help from someone in authority 2. (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) 3. an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed.
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181. In making that plea he will breathe in vain.
182. Hear my plea, oh servant of holy Osiris.
183. The killing came a day after a nine-year-old in Arizona reached a plea deal after being charged with shooting dead his father and his father's room-mate.
184. His departure was part of a plea bargain under which he would have admitted lesser charges of sexual harassment but would not have faced imprisonment.
185. Countercharge system, a very useful system in practice, can be traced back to offset plea in Roman law about 1,300 years ago.
186. Firstly, it elaborates why the plea bargaining is reasonable on the basis of value analysis.
187. The two men who appeared in court yesterday entered no plea although the lawyer who appeared for one said they would plead not guilty .
188. The police said the guy was hoping to work out a plea bargain by telling where the others may be hiding.
189. Israeli President Moshe Katsav has submitted his letter of resignation a day after accepting a plea bargain that allows rape charges against him to be dropped.
190. North Korea remained belligerent despite Mr Obama's plea to tyrannies to "unclench your fist".
191. Mr. Katsav resigned recently as part of a plea bargain that enabled him to avoid being indicted on more serious charges of rape and abuse of power.
192. Cleo has now issued a come and get me plea to the Reds, although admitting that Partizan will eventually decide his future.
193. A not guilty plea was entered on Boc's behalf Monday at his arraignment in Framingham District Court on charges including identity fraud.
194. In October, he pleaded no contest -- the equivalent of a guilty plea -- to a single count of driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.
195. Her plea of guilty to manslaughter through provocation was rejected.
196. The question is whether he will fight to the bitter end to clear his name or cop a plea to try to limit his time in prison.
197. The President recently turned deaf ears on an S . O . S . plea from a group of G . O . P . ers.
198. To improve the situation[sentencedict.com], plea bargain has become a common practice for the prosecution and defense.
199. American plea bargaining system is a law system with vivid character.
200. The naughty boy left the classroom on the plea of a headache.
201. The defendant decided to cop a plea in order to get a lighter sentence.
202. There exist procedural agreement and substantive agreement in plea bargain.
203. So some legists suggest we can adapt the system of plea bargaining of America to improve the facility procedure of criminal adjudgement of China .
204. His final case for social democracy is a "show-me- a -better-foxhole" plea . Nothing else looks more desirable.
205. In the end, this is a plea for steeper progressivity(sentencedict.com/plea.html), which in turn cuts deeper into long-term economic growth.
206. THE WOLF AND THE LAMBA Wolf meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the Lamb himself his right to eat him.
207. After that it focuses on the analysis of procedural operative mechanism of plea bargaining.
208. The defendant who enters the courtroom and who has decided not to plea bargain is confronted with such a cheerful bunch of jurors.
209. Ashen-faced, they leaned on each other for strength while the district attorney told them about the possible plea bargain.
210. The defendish decided to cop a plea in order to get a light weighter sentence.