11.   On one hand, the Giuliani administration is expected to plead poverty more urgently than before.

12.   Pleading poverty.

13.   Some might argue that with the owners pleading poverty, the last baseball stoppage is an exception to the rule.

14.   Some Russian politicians have called the deal a disgrace, noting that a country with superpower pretensions should not be pleading poverty.

15.   The news was fairly surprising, considering the financial blows transit has endured recently and the consistency with which MTA officials have pleaded poverty.

16.   They were pleading poverty.

17.   We can rip the owners for pleading poverty while they continue to pay out such exorbitant sums.

18.   Who knows better than they that the clubs, which are forever pleading poverty, might be barreling toward a self-fulfilling prophecy.

19.   Dressed in a brown suit and speaking quickly and emotionally in German through a translator, Harksen pleaded poverty and said he could not pay for bail.

20.   In a state whose education system constantly pleads poverty, this policy makes no sense.