How To Use Special pleading In A Sentence
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You can only guess at the special pleading behind closed doors that works away at her defences.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
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The forest is being rubbed out by special pleading, arm-twisting and back-scratching corruption.
Times, Sunday Times
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The arguing tactic is called "special pleading," and it's a dirty rhetorical trick indeed!
Boing Boing
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A novelist and playwright himself, this might seem like the special pleading of a thin-skinned but hard-necked writer who fears that his own literary endeavours will never stand up to serious appraisal.
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The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
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The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
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There has clearly been an element of special pleading here, but it is not actually a plea to ministers for more cash, it is just a bald and factual statement of the problems.
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The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
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But special pleading by companies and ad-hoc intervention by governments are not the answer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The papers of Thomas Rodney, judge in the Old Southwest 1803-1811, preserve such museum pieces as the writ of account and de homine replegiando.17 Rodney wrote that “Special Pleading is adhered to in our Courts with as much Strictness Elegance and propriety as in any of the States, so that Even the young Lawyers are obliged to read their books and be very attentive to their business or want bread.”
A History of American Law
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That is not an argument but a case of special pleading.
Christianity Today
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The issue is further clouded by the plausible special pleading that the development industry has successfully propagated.
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Strict adherents of free-market ideology hear in that the cry of failed business over the ages; special pleading by industries that prefer state subsidy to competition.
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The issue is further clouded by the plausible special pleading that the development industry has successfully propagated.
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Now, one can dismiss Mr Toner's argument as special pleading.
