1.   He flatly rejected the pleas of Aung San to stand for election.

2.   The judge rejected pleas for leniency and sentenced him to six months in prison.

3.   American officials rejected pleas from both Serb and Russian officials for the bombing to stop.

4.   As a result of the ruling, Smyth might flee, the prosecutors told U.S. District Court Judge Fern Smith, who rejected their plea.

5.   Blues Coach Mike Keenan had demanded that McCarty be suspended, but the league rejected his plea.

6.   According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Judge David Hansher rejected that plea.

7.   After they rejected his pleas, he appealed to the federal courts.

8.   After the judge rejected his plea for a lesser sentence, McGuire said his client had withdrawn his objections to allowing bombing victims to speak at the sentencing hearing.

9.   Both the House and the Senate rejected administration pleas and approved less than what President Bill Clinton requested for grain export subsidies.

10.   But Clinton rejected pleas to make the Arctic refuge into a monument partly because the president concluded that area already is protected by federal law.