But even Mr Sarkozy has proved a hard-core national protectionist when it comes to special pleading by French industry.
But an unfinished, suave life study of a seated nude by one of Ingres's followers, Henri Lehmann, requires no special pleading.
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Industry special pleading helps square legislators' hostility to online betting with their willingness to allow online state lotteries and online betting on horse racing.
Israel's leading liberal newspaper, Haaretz, recently reported that senior officials in Washington are increasingly irritated by Mr Barak's incessant special pleading on Mr Netanyahu's behalf.
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The more of this special pleading stuff he adds, the harder they will be to clean out if he really does try to lower rates someday.
State bureaucratic meddling, combined with the longstanding special pleading of creative artists and topped with a sprinkling of Hollywood stardust, creates a recipe for pure market failure.
Someone indulged in special pleading and America didn't buy it.
Permissive campaign spending with immediate disclosure is the best way to inform citizens about politics during a campaign, while empowering them to appropriately discount the special pleading of special interests.
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Armed only with the laws of physics, reams of publicly available information, a little maths and much wit, Mr MacKay attempted to dispel the fog and special pleading surrounding renewable energy.
Even prior to the drought, a growing roll of world leaders was looking on aghast at such special pleading and politely suggesting that maybe the U.S. might do something to avert another wave of food price shocks.
Margaret Thatcher would no more have identified herself as a woman, or claimed special pleading that she was a mere frail girl, or asked you to sympathize with her because of her sex, than she would have called up the Kremlin and asked how quickly she could surrender.
The Spanish are pleading special circumstances - precisely as countries did before.
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