Outside the court,McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, called the ruling a disgrace and made a plea to U.S.President Barack Obama for leniency.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

He went there and he made a plea that General Motors should cut its dividend that it pays to stockholders, which is a reasonable thing to do.

他向管理层提出请求,希望通用汽车公司减少,支付给股东们的红利,这是一种很合理的做法

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JFK, when making the plea for equal rights, didn't produce an abstract philosophical argument but rather tried to invite his listeners who were white to engage in perspective taking.

当肯尼迪呼吁实行平等权利时，他并没有提出抽象的哲学理由,而请求那些听他呼吁的白人,从黑人的角度进行思考。

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The prosecution had argued that Kasab changed his plea from innocent to guilty to secure a more-lenient sentence.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

As soon as Milton describes for us the events in heaven that lead up to the Nativity, he begins the this is the prelude of the poem, it's broken up in to two chunks: the prelude and then what Milton calls the hymn he begins the third stanza of the prelude to his poem with a plea to the Heavenly Muse for inspiration.

弥尔顿一给我们描述引导基督诞生的天堂的事情,他就开始描述,这就是诗歌的开端，分为两部分：,这个开端还有弥尔顿称之为颂歌的部分,他开篇的第三段用了,对天国的缪斯寻求创作灵感的请愿。

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Outside the courthouse, victim Richard Friedman, who lost millions of dollars from his retirement savings, said Madoff's guilty plea is not enough.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

In accordance with their plea agreement, the suspects cannot return to the United States without special authorization.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

Kasab was the only one captured alive. The defense had said that, if the plea was accepted, the trial should end and a sentence delivered.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

The former senator said he has taken his plea for normalization in relations with Israel to various Arab leaders during his travels across the region.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"We know this in the court system as plea bargaining,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

They meet with the senator for 15 minutes. "What I assured them was: given their plea and call and demand in a polite way for us to have a clean energy future, that was job one for me."

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

Earlier this week, Kasab took lawyers by surprise when he changed his plea to guilty and admitted that he sprayed gunfire at Mumbai's main train station after arriving in the city from Pakistan with other nine other gunmen.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

In fact,the court has also noted that Kasab did not admit all the charges, but he has admitted partly, and court has further ordered that Kasab's plea of admission of guilt that can be considered only when the prosecution completes its case,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

Wouldn't that be sure and swift justice since the plea of guilty is the strongest form of proof known to the law?" Some legal experts continue to raise questions about the validity of the military commissions, even though the Obama administration and Congress have taken steps to give defendants more rights in that process.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25