| Directors can no longer plead ignorance, or whatever other excuse they choose. |
| Both firms have taken out full-page advertisements in leading newspapers to plead their case before customers and shareholders. |
| Meanwhile, cowering on the leather sectionals, bewildered parents plead to the camera for a nanny intervention. |
| I let her plead her case for awhile, knowing that she could get as dramatic as Aya on her slightly mellow days. |
| If they could be destroyed in days or weeks and the hungry fed, I would plead guilty to every charge of alarmism and shroud-waving. |
| John and Jimmy even plead with the blow-dried anchorman at a local TV station to air a special report on Mikey. |
