I've had all I'm taking of these pleas of ignorance!"

He grimaced and shrugged one shoulder, hoping that she would take the gesture as a plea of ignorance.

Yet Ronald Reagan refused to obey those rules and, when called to account, escaped with a plea of ignorance.

Diane asked, ignoring my pleas of ignorance.

He does not buy Mr. Kellner's plea of ignorance.

Again he asked a merchant about the massive church of stone, and this time he could have sworn that the plea of ignorance was feigned.

The princess stuck to her old plea of ignorance, and she replied to the increasing tortures by silence and patient forbearance.

The dispensation is approved, even if his mother's plea of ignorance and the reputation of a lawful marriage cannot be sustained."

That this was the usual procedure was so well known to Hook that in disregarding it he cannot be excused on the plea of ignorance.

But Mr. Skilling's plea of ignorance echoes what many executives, board members and other corporate leaders are increasingly using as justification for questionable business actions.

Worse, many of the technology chief's denials and pleas of ignorance have been directly refuted by prosecutors with snippets of email Gates both sent and received."

Mary T. Shannon, an assistant United States attorney, attacked Mr. Mariotta's plea of ignorance about wrongdoing at Wedtech.

His denial progresses from a plea of ignorance, to a denial plus an oath and then to cursing and swearing with a total denial that he ever knew Jesus.

It was only by my plea of ignorance to things domestic in the law that I was allowed to remain on the spectators' side of the bar in Laurel's brawl with Jack over custody.

The text provides a rare insight into the hatching of a secret operation, the plans for its deniability, the subsequent attempts to cover it up and, not least, the pleas of ignorance by high officials, including President Mitterrand himself.

Henry Stern, a former city official, wrote in his blog, New York Civic, after the verdict: "Even though his alleged sins were relatively trivial for a politician, his plea of ignorance of the law was not credible.

It contained a plea of ignorance that was essentially the alibi that Sosa, the Chicago Cubs' slugger and irresistible rags-to-riches story, presented after that ignominious moment Tuesday night at Wrigley Field when he hit a ground ball that shattered his bat and exposed the illegal cork in it.