Sentences with phrase «to plead ignorance»

Clients are paying them to look after their financial affairs, not plead ignorance about something as basic as stop loss orders.

Yes, it's funny when smart people plead ignorance.

You can't plead ignorance once you're aware of the problem.

The problems with such an approach are however evident: for instance, could a company plead ignorance in order to avoid the application of the rules?

When ethical issues arise, lawyers can't plead ignorance.

Well if she wants children and he doesn't then she'll do what most women do — i.e. «forget» to take her birth control pills while pleading ignorance as to how she got pregnant.

(Howard Wolfson, then a spokesman for Clinton, pleaded ignorance when asked who Hillary was supposed to be in that scenario.)

And pleading ignorance by hiding behind the credentials of your so called tax expert will provide little consolation.

Pleading ignorance doesn't help,» Tufts University business professor Amar Bhide told me.

While pundits wondered whether Giuliani had imperiled Trump's plan to continually plead ignorance, Giuliani told the Post that Trump was in on the plan all along.

These highly placed, public figures do all sorts of praising of the non-existent PC brand until the firecracker bursts in their faces and they then plead ignorance or naivete.

you're using children and politicians as shining examples of how pleading ignorance is ok:)?

You can't plead ignorance twice.

When speaking about the comment, Hamilton pleaded ignorance, saying he «didn't really remember» it and called the collision with the Red Bull «unnecessary».

Congress pleaded ignorance, claiming it needed a better definition on what exactly is a whole grain.

Worse for Liu is that pleading ignorance becomes more damaging as the investigation works its way up the campaign's organizational chart, especially since his job is monitoring the city's money — why didn't Liu know what was going on, or run a tighter ship?

They can probably plead ignorance, because most (not all) those researchers left, and the later people may not have got the memos or looked at the research history there.

No longer may school boards and districts plead ignorance on the driving records of their drivers.

I wish I could plead ignorance as what I've gotten us into, but we actually participated in the Spring with this Rustic Boy Bedroom, so I knew the overwhelming blur of a six weeks I was in for.

He insisted that no disrespect was intended and appeared to plead ignorance about the mutual distain between Chelsea and Spurs supporters.

Pleading ignorance on some questions, they didn't answer at all or shifted the discussion to a more wheelhouse topic.

Hazael can not plead ignorance that all this is evil.

Pleading ignorance: You ignore or misconstrue the consequences of the act.

Zuckerberg prudently chose to plead ignorance.

And the school district could have plead ignorance and avoided the initial ruling against them.

But what if Prof. Arnhart admits that beavers and even extraterrestrials can be detectable designers, but that my method can not detect an immaterial designer» that if no material or embodied agent can be found for some effect, we have to plead ignorance?

When cheating and blatant violations occur, enforcement agencies can not plead ignorance, writer says.

And I would have to plead ignorance.

Disclaimer, since the United States continues to plead ignorance to the fact that gambling is happening everywhere around them rather than regulating it, all bets will be in the form of bagel currency.

Since then the CFA, the player and Guoan have kept largely quiet, although the club — coached by the German Roger Schmidt — previously told AFP that Bakambu left Villarreal «for personal reasons» and have pleaded ignorance about any deal.

He again stressed the personal dimensions of Percoco's conviction and pleaded ignorance — and innocence — of any crime.

Re: wine - only stores, I'll plead ignorance.

A new government in 2015 will no longer be able to plead ignorance; warm words will not be enough.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came out of the governor's office a little while later to plead ignorance on the OTB proposal, saying Skelos hadn't raised the issue in the meeting.

And you can't plead ignorance.

I fail to grasp just why the film has the title it does, or why it is set in the era it is, but I'm willing to plead ignorance to these things if it means enjoying an interesting film with fine performances and an engaging plot.

She pleads ignorance when law enforcement tells her to stop leaving threatening voicemails.

To compound the tragedy, we can't plead ignorance.

I know I'm not the only one confused about this — I was talking to a professional writer friend the other day and he pleaded ignorance as well.

We can't plead ignorance any more.

Now a study has crunched the numbers, making it much harder to plead ignorance about the environmental impact of your next vacation.

Under the Paris Agreement, that can't happen without explicit recognition that that is what is going on — no - one will be able to plead ignorance.