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Examples
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He called the house-arrest sentence "a slap on the wrist."
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter begelko@sfchronicle.com (Bob Egelko 2011
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When we first meet him, Mr. McGowan is back in New York circa 2007, where he grew up, confined by a house-arrest ankle bracelet.
Shining Past, Darker Present Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
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In Italy, a Rome court revoked a house-arrest order for Silvio Scaglia, the billionaire and Fastweb founder standing trial in an alleged €2 billion $2.75 billion money-laundering and tax-fraud scheme.
World Watch 2011
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Can you imagine that Madoff actually was put under * house-arrest* for merely stealing 50 billion dollars?
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars 2009
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NEW YORK—Dominique Strauss-Kahn is out of jail, but the experience of others who have faced house-arrest arrangements as tight as his suggests the former International Monetary Fund chief faces a trying time.
House Arrest Starts for Strauss-Kahn Ashby Jones 2011
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Another factor is beleaguered Nobel laureate and pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house-arrest sentence is scheduled to end this Saturday.
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Ms. Suu Kyi, 65 years old, is currently serving an 18-month house-arrest sentence for allowing an uninvited American man who swam a Yangon lake to enter her waterside home in May 2009.
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Myanmar ' s military regime staged the country ' s first election in 20 years, an exercise President Obama deemed " neither fair nor free, " as he called for the release of dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house-arrest order expires Saturday.
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Most of the year she spent under house-arrest during the Seymour crisis in 1549 had been spent at Hatfield.
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After the public confession, Musharraf immediately pardoned this "national hero," prohibited him from being questioned, and isolated him under unofficial house-arrest.
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