(n.) The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.
Example Sentences:
(1) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(2) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(3) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(4) Seven more were charged in the US and four more, including the former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty.
(5) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(6) One little boy grabbed me and pleaded with me, that the Jungle was not a good place, and he didn’t want to be there.” Last month, protesters staged a die-in at St Pancras station in London against plans to clear the area of the Jungle.
(7) The results observed plead in favour of the notion that frozen-defrosted blood, combines the advantages of washed blood, freed from all plasma and cellular contaminants of fresh blood with preservation of the oxyphoric power.
(8) It stated that, at the Place du Canada rally, prime minister Pierre Trudeau pleaded with Quebecers to vote no.
(9) One group of clergy had spent the evening marching through the west side, pleading with people to remain peaceful.
(10) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(11) Wildstein, a high-ranking Port Authority official, pleaded guilty to orchestrating the scheme and was the prosecution’s star witness .
(12) The film director faced a jail term after he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with Samantha Gailey (now Geimer), then aged 13.
(13) Next to Aung San Suu Kyi was General Zaw Win, deputy minister for border affairs, who accompanied the Guardian to Rakhine state in December, where he openly laughed at a teary-eyed Rohingya man in an internally displaced persons camp who pleaded : "We are real Rohingya – please recognise us."
(14) The Premier League set up a disciplinary tribunal to try West Ham, who in April 2007 pleaded guilty.
(15) And secretary of state Hillary Clinton, visiting Hungary in 2011, pleaded for “a real commitment to the independence of the judiciary, a free press, and governmental transparency”.
(16) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
(17) David Coleman Headley, 49, pleaded guilty in a US court yesterday to all 12 counts he faced.
(18) But when it was suggested by the court that he could face five years in prison if he fought the charges he pleaded guilty – and was then shocked when he was handed 18 months in military detention rather than the expected suspended sentence.
(19) Breadline defendants are choosing to plead guilty and pay the £150 rather than run the risk of an even higher charge by pleading not guilty.
(20) Gun sales are continuing to spike around Ferguson, Missouri, as security firms plead with authorities to make it easier for them to hire new guards in advance of a grand jury’s decision on whether to charge a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black 18-year-old.
Rebuttal
Definition:
(n.) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
(2) "The law states specifically that this provision does not give the suspect the right to have copies of case files," the prosecutors said in their rebuttal.
(3) The cleanliness of Kigali is a pleasing rebuttal to Forbes’ list, which declared in 2007 that the cleanest cities in the world were “largely located in countries noted for their democracy and their industrialisation” and that there are “no top-25 clean cities in South or Central America, Africa and Australia”.
(4) Fiorina’s own rebuttal to the Iran deal may have been lacked any detail but it packed a rhetorical punch.
(5) The format only allows for one-minute responses and a 30-second rebuttal if we are attacked by name, so probably a lot of us will be sitting there hoping we get attacked by name so we can get a little more time,” said Huckabee in an interview on CBS.
(6) If, as looks likely, Carswell wins a byelection on 9 October , Farage will have a neat rebuttal to Cameron’s warning that voting Ukip lets Labour in by the back door.
(7) I did so in part after soliciting and receiving this response to the center’s mock “nutrition label” for the salmon from Ron Stotish, CEO of AquaBounty, on 27 June: Rebuttal of Center for Food Safety AquAdvantage (AAS) Salmon composition label: In the United States, the average height of a student entering the third grade is 45 inches.
(8) These films were a blithe rebuttal of the critic Edward Said’s insight that, in a novel like Mansfield Park, the “English” story necessarily concealed the story, located elsewhere but inextricable from the main narrative, of a West Indian sugar plantation.
(9) The strategy backfired within hours because, with just a few sentences, Miliband gave a truly prime ministerial rebuttal: “Michael Fallon’s a decent man but today I think he has demeaned himself and he’s demeaned his office.
(10) This was not our intention – a fix for this is already under way,” wrote Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of policy for Europe in a rebuttal.
(11) He said: "The tone and language of the report is quite shocking, but it was equally a very firm rebuttal from Standard Chartered to say it was acting lawfully and measuring what they think was outside the rules."
(12) But whether the attacks are fair when it comes to Trump or not, Clinton was able to stick them without a strong rebuttal from her opponent.
(13) Yet I have never seen a sustained rebuttal of his argument, because it’s essentially true.
(14) It's a brisk rebuttal of a recent research paper which argued that the fiscal consolidation being imposed on European countries was largely the fault of the "fear and panic that erupted in the financial markets".
(15) The legal concept of "rebuttable presumption" should be used to reconceive the traditional requirement of a uniform standard of care.
(16) That prompted an immediate response from Anderson on Twitter and the mayor issued a more comprehensive rebuttal of Everton’s accusations on Tuesday.
(17) Tory missteps and gaffes go ignored and unpunished, where, in the Alastair Campbell era of rapid rebuttal, they would have been seized on ruthlessly.
(18) She scathingly noted that the state’s rebuttal to Warner’s petition had depended largely on a scientific expert who claimed that midazolam was effective in executions but had cited no studies, but instead appeared to have drawn his information from the website drugs.com .
(19) @StateDept with another rebuttal of #Russian authorities claims.
(20) In his rebuttal, he said that they were the "usual tired obfuscation and generalisation".