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  • Currently he's charged with Attempting to Make a Terrorist threat and unrelated fraud charges and is being held on $1.1 million in bail.

    News Item 2008

  • Currently he's charged with Attempting to Make a Terrorist threat and unrelated fraud charges and is being held on $1.1 million in bail.

    Criminal Law 2007

  • He stumbled over the hose as he took the nozzleman position, fingers fumbling over the moveable U-shaped handle called the bail.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

  • As we told you earlier, he made bail last week on charges that included assaulting a police officer and child rape, which would seem to argue against any kind of bail.

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009 2009

  • As we told you earlier, he made bail last week on charges that's including assaulting a police officer and child rape which would seem to argue against any kind of bail.

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009 2009

  • Now, one of the things they will be hoping for is some kind of bail.

    CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2009 2009

  • Firstly, they want to see the 17-year-old released on bond, have some kind of bail.

    CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2007 2007

  • When these individuals are put in solitary confinement, or in the brig, Anderson, military law does not allow for any kind of bail.

    CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006 2006

  • ARMEY: Well, I would certainly not use the word "bail."

    CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2001 2001

  • It’s a much more adult stance than what one might expect from him given his prior behavior, and it’s a much more adult stance than what has been adopted by his centrist peers, who seem to just be looking for an excuse to bail. from the Lincoln Journal Star:

    Matthew Yglesias » Reconciliation Points the Way to Bipartisanship 2010

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