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Bondsmen have lobbied to cut back local pretrial programs from Texas to California, pushed for legislation in five states limiting pretrial's resources and lobbied Congress so they won't have to pay up if a client commits a new crime.
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It's no wonder that many sports-writing Bondsmen in the Bay Area have been tripping over their modems to compare him to DiMaggio, Musial, Williams-and that other Giants legend, Willie Mays, who happens to be his godfather.
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Bondsmen would put up the money to secure your return to the court system, and when you didn't return, they called me.
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"Bondsmen and redemptioners, " Duff had told him, looking over the incomers with a practiced eye.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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[A] surety of Legacies is that by which the Heir, having given Bondsmen, engages to a Legatary to whom a
John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966
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But, in spite of the change of policy due to Mr. Hofmeyr, the old leaven of stalwart Bondsmen remained sufficiently in evidence to draw from Mr. J.
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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The fact that only two out of six members of the Ministry were Bondsmen, is to be referred to the circumstance that the actual business of administration had been hitherto mainly in the hands of a small group of British colonial politicians, who were prepared to bid against each other for the all-important support of the Dutch vote.
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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In point of fact the measure received practically no support from the Bondsmen in Parliament; while, outside of Parliament, on Bond platforms and in the Bond Press, the Government's action in the matter was employed as an effective argument to stimulate disaffection in the ranks of its Dutch supporters.
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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Of the two Bondsmen in the Cabinet, Mr. Herholdt was a member of the
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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To say that they were 'fiddling while Rome burned' is to a great extent true of those of the South African Dutch who were sincerely desirous that the Transvaal Government should reform its ways and who were not consciously aiding in the republicanizing movement; but even of them it is not an adequate description, -- as the answers given to two questioners by the most prominent and one of the most prominent Bondsmen indicate.
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896
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