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The difficulty was that the case was still within the six month time limit and it was competent for the Crown to re-raise proceedings in the correct jurisdiction.
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The plea was upheld and the case was deserted with the Crown unable to re-raise proceedings.
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They are going to show very high percentage win rates on your poker calculator as well as “raise, and re-raise” recommendations.
Poker Calculators and The Sklansky Group Hand Rankings | Poker Hands 2010
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I re-raise these incidents now because a couple of Sundays ago, George F. Will, America's most distinguished conservative commentator -- in light of the death of William Safire -- recently wrote a column in which admired Bachmann as a "petite pistol that occasionally goes off half-cocked."
Eric Alterman: Think Again: This Fish Rots from the Head Down 2009
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If Obama put Hillary on the ticket, it would re-raise all of the questions about Bill's income sources, what he did for Dubai, what he did for Frank Guistra -- the Canadian mining executive who gave millions to the Clinton library and whom Bill introduced to the president of Kazakhstan -- and whether he will make public his library donors.
Poll: McCain Beats Obama And Hillary By Equal Margin Among Working Class Whites 2009
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But at this point, instead of guessing or attempting to ask an elucidatory question, would you permit me to re-raise a question I asked earlier?
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In any event, there are sure to be postings by Alpha on other boards and I guess we can just re-raise this discussion in the future.
"Is it possible that there might be something really ugly at the core of contemporary liberalism?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Now that they have a captured audience, they raise there rates and then re-raise them.
Blockbuster Slaps Its Biggest Fans - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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But it did re-raise the question of the place and meaning of campaign "meta" humor, in which candidates step outside the premises of their own campaigns for what is supposed to be comic respite.
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If Roberts were to come out with "this far and no further" for Welsh devolution, it would immediately re-raise the spectre of a new Redwood, and thus be a spur for every non-Tory in Wales to vote for a Parliament ... and Wales has FAR more non-Tories than Tories.
A man in denial Glyn Davies 2008
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