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Left out, for instance, are the many cases that are resolved by guilty pleas, not trials.
From TV and news headlines, you may think that trials are the norm in our legal system, but the reality is that 97 percent of legal cases in the US are resolved by pleas, not trials.
My pleas fell on deaf ears, thank god.
And the poor man said, "And you mean God didn't answer my pleas?"
As an African American male, I often read pleas from my brothers and sisters to "support African American films."
The critical scene for the real theme of this movie is when the hero or antihero's pleas for help for his stranded lover in the desert is ignored and disregarded for the reasons shown in that scene.
To unleash criticism at the film feels really unkind, since it is a movie that deals with earnest themes like humanity, and pleas for upright moral standards and tolerance.
In any event, he does not accede to her demands that he stop and he proceeds to have intercourse despite her pleas.
pleas guys don't waste your time on this movie you will live to regret it.
I've e-mailed Telemundo a million times already to show the novela again but my pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
He travels the country at a hectic pace, reaching out to the campesinos, addressing huge crowds, hugging and kissing ordinary people, accepting letters on scraps of paper, and hearing pleas for help.
The repeated intrusions Cassie made during try-outs appear to mirror the almost desperate pleas one often has to make when engaging in the artistic professions in the absence of talent and/or luck.
Trying to remember who she is she sees a doctor, who turns out to be a freak and gives her an enema to her anguished pleas and some skiffle music.
I loved the scenes in the woods with Mitchum and Holden bickering and making their pleas to Young.
It's clear with this film's opening: Seagal is hearing the fan's pleas for better films, and he's going to start trying better.
Any China-bashing and protectionist pleas this time around will most likely ring just as hollow.
They ensure that key legal and factual issues get raised, that the best evidence is obtained – often through diplomatic means, but often at risk of life and limb in hostile territory – that guilty pleas do not dilute the truth, and that sentencing recommendations are commensurate with the crimes’ true dimensions.
Rather, it seemed that the US was using the media to put pressure on Pakistan’s government to respond more readily to America’s pleas to cap production of tactical weapons and the short-range missiles that could deliver them.
When Bo appears in court, his pleas will not be so persuasive.
When its traditional allies, the United States and the United Kingdom, rejected its pleas for help, it turned to China, which provided $138 million in loans to prop up the economy.
In Copenhagen, the pleas of representatives of small island states (some of which will cease to exist if sea levels continue to rise) for a target of 1.5ºC went unheeded, essentially because world leaders thought the measures required to meet such a target were politically unrealistic.
On October 17, despite pleas for patience and restraint from Iraq and the US, Turkish lawmakers voted 507-19 to authorize Erdogan to order cross-border military strikes into Iraq at any time over the next year.
These pleas have come, frustratingly, as military funding to thwart bio-attacks, consciously mounted by human actors, has remained robust.
Reportedly, in the run-up to the rocket launch, the North Koreans refused to respond to China’s pleas that they stand down.
And, indeed, from Trump’s perspective, the highlights of his recent trip abroad were signing a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, berating other NATO members for their supposedly insufficient military spending, and rejecting the pleas of US allies to continue in the fight global warming.
However, had the same lawmakers who are now deriding the CDC listened to pleas for more support and warnings of the consequences of poor funding over the past several years, perhaps the US would not be in the situation in which it finds itself today.
Only if the public is on board will leaders respond to pleas for bold and decisive strategic planning.
Despite pleas from the IMF and the OECD, Germany also remains implacably opposed to Eurobonds, which could ease the funding constraints of other eurozone members and bolster the resources of the European Stability Mechanism, which currently does not provide a credible firewall against a run on Spanish or Italian sovereign debt – or on the European banks that hold it.
But arms deliveries have dried up, and the rebels’ pleas for anti-aircraft weapons remain unanswered.
Forget about America's rhetoric of upholding fairness and justice; in trade negotiations, the US ignores the pleas of the poorest countries of the world to eliminate the cotton subsidies that have had so devastating an effect on them.
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