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  • Every thought, in its little cell, crouched ready-dressed at the door, like prisoners at midnight a jail-break.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • Singapore's government said Mas Selamat Kastari, the suspected leader of the Singapore wing of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group, is back in its custody two-and-a-half years after a daring jail-break.

    World Watch 2010

  • Allan Pinkerton may also have considered the possibility of a jail-break; his biographer quotes him as follows: "Had it not been for the excessive watchfulness [of Brown's captors] ... the pages of American history would never have been stained with the record of his execution." [p. 347]

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The jail-break scene is probably the most memorable and bad-ass in Maniac Cop 2, with good reason!

    Maniac Cop 2 (1990) 2010

  • This makes the piracy problem on the iPhone pretty small potatoes as the percentage of iPhone owners who jail-break is low and getting lower as Apple releases updates that add a lot of the features covered by jailbreaking (and incidentally usually break jail-broken phones).

    Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. 2009

  • But for sure, the guys stuck in my ducts could become restless, stage a jail-break and start roaming around looking for new territory to inhabit.

    Dr. Judith Rich: Elizabeth Edwards And Us: Lessons In Resilience 2009

  • Before I have time to survey the disaster, the kids discover the jail-break and gallop through the flat like bounty hunters, punctuating each capture with shrill screams that threaten to cleave my skull in two.

    04.04 M-mv 2004

  • Before I have time to survey the disaster, the kids discover the jail-break and gallop through the flat like bounty hunters, punctuating each capture with shrill screams that threaten to cleave my skull in two.

    Archive 2004-05-01 M-mv 2004

  • Before I have time to survey the disaster, the kids discover the jail-break and gallop through the flat like bounty hunters, punctuating each capture with shrill screams that threaten to cleave my skull in two.

    05.04 M-mv 2004

  • Before I have time to survey the disaster, the kids discover the jail-break and gallop through the flat like bounty hunters, punctuating each capture with shrill screams that threaten to cleave my skull in two.

    Note(s) to self M-mv 2004

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