21.   Gilmore rejected her plea.

22.   He makes clear that if the plea is rejected, any future deal will only carry a higher sentence.

23.   He rejected the pleas of his ad guru, Lord Saatchi, for a final blitz, fearing it would smack of panic and break the budget.

24.   He rejected pleas to cut her hair short instead of shaving her head and repeated his order of last week that the college can cut as it chooses.

25.   In the past, the FDA had rejected pleas from antismoking groups to assert regulatory control over tobacco.

26.   It rejected pleas that neighborhoods should have a larger voice in whether an individual store is appropriate for their area.

27.   Last September, Jones appeared before the parole board for the third time, and for the third time the board rejected his plea for freedom.

28.   Last weekend, he rejected a plea from Fox to join his team, which would assure the PAN the presidential win.

29.   Less than an hour before, Leon County Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls rejected a plea by the Gore legal team to start counting the sequestered ballots immediately.

30.   Moderate intellectuals had dared to reject his plea for support.