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  • They merely waited, and when his probation was up and nothing to stop him, he would be gone.   (source)
    probation = a period of time during which a criminal who has been released from prison must comply with special conditions
  • I didn't have a record, so I took the charge and got a few years and probation.†   (source)
  • And an insight into our sense of normalcy: "Mandy's husband Terry," she starts, referencing a friend of hers, "was arrested on a probation violation and sent to prison.†   (source)
  • You know they are going to put you on probation if you don't start doing better, man.†   (source)
  • There are nearly six million people on probation or on parole.†   (source)
  • '… may well choose to leave… the indignity of it… on probation… we shall see… how she dares…'†   (source)
  • The judge sentenced him to two years' probation, stipulating that as a first offender he could wipe his record clean if he made restitution within a year.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in his curly brown hair, and she knew I couldn't do anything back to her because I was already on probation.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, please withhold from volunteering for any nonmember activities in the future, as your name has been placed on a probationary list.†   (source)
  • "So put Owen on disciplinary probation," Dan Needham said.†   (source)
  • If you plead guilty as a juvenile, you'll get a two-year suspended sentence and two years of probation.†   (source)
  • Would it compromise her probationary status to strangle this imbecile?†   (source)
  • On probation?†   (source)
  • The suspensions of Southam's and Mandel's licenses were stayed, leaving them both on one-year probation instead.†   (source)
  • After the five-year probation?†   (source)
  • For Hugh Freeze the moment was a football practice at which this new boy, who had just been admitted on academic probation, had no business.†   (source)
  • When your girl does that, it means you're on probation.†   (source)
  • 'Aren't you on probation?' the prosecutor asked.†   (source)
  • If it's your first offense, she could probably get you a short probation.†   (source)
  • To his probation officer.†   (source)
  • She says that you also told her that the guy was probably going to get probation, even though he killed her kid, so she should take matters into her own hands.†   (source)
  • But Luma summoned Christian over and told him he could rejoin the team so long as he understood that he was on probation.†   (source)
  • You're doing fine, and you live here too, she had said, and Caroline had understood that her period of probation was over.†   (source)
  • Besides, there's a good chance you'll just get five years' probation.†   (source)
  • If the entire school does poorly, federal funding can be withheld; if the school is put on probation, the teacher stands to be fired.†   (source)
  • My PSI detailed all the members of my immediate family, including Larry, who had been interviewed by the probation department.†   (source)
  • So began the probation period for Adam and his classmates from Class 227.†   (source)
  • On June 2, I received a letter from the probation department of the County of Onondaga.†   (source)
  • Probation would imply a source of authority.†   (source)
  • You're still on probation.†   (source)
  • Some students in the class also ended up in various realms of "the system"-the catchall term for incarceration, probation, parole, or police custody.†   (source)
  • After what he's been through—probation, maybe a short sentence, but no one's going to lock up a tormented father for too long, not after so many fathers have lost their daughters to BoneMan.†   (source)
  • He had started his career at the age of sixteen when he was put on probation and in institutional care for assault and battery and theft.†   (source)
  • As far as I'm concerned, you're on probation until the last chocolate's sold.†   (source)
  • At midterm, he was summoned by the dean, who told him he was on the verge of academic probation and gave him the same advice as the chemistry professor.†   (source)
  • "You're off the paper and you're on probation for the rest of the school year.†   (source)
  • "However," the foreman continued, "in light of the defendant's honesty, her genuine remorse, and the severe provocation preceding the crimes, the jury has elected to suspend the sentence and place Miss Shrope on probationary supervision for a period of five years."†   (source)
  • As I was checking the state and condition of the mess hall and the latrines and supply dump, ordering men to clean and organize and raze (the secondary rounds of busywork in that long, odd probation from any fighting), I was almost certain that the soldiers were sensing my impatience and discomfort.†   (source)
  • Technically, I'm on probation this year.†   (source)
  • She'd agreed to plead guilty to two counts of felony theft, to accept the minimum sentence of three years on each count, and to forego a probation hearing.†   (source)
  • I also told Alan—after I gave him three licks—that he was on probation from using my guns for a long time.†   (source)
  • Ended up with mandatory therapy, probation, and community service.†   (source)
  • Don't take nonsense; every earthworm is on probation.†   (source)
  • Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person.†   (source)
  • He would not be reduced to begging gasoline or food, and be dragged down to the level of a probationary teller.†   (source)
  • Their probation is ended: they're leaving the last remnants of matter behind.†   (source)
  • The probation officer wanted Leamas to become a male nurse at a mental home in Buckinghamshire and Leamas agreed to apply.†   (source)
  • AFTER PROTRACTED NEGOTIATIONS, IT WAS AGREED THAT ROBERT WOULD BE PUT ON PROBATION.†   (source)
  • And I hope I don't need to remind you that you're on probation.†   (source)
  • Part of being on probation means she's not allowed to take credit for her work.†   (source)
  • Especially if Jordan doesn't do anything to get a negative report from probation.†   (source)
  • She obviously reckons Trelawney's an old fraud, too… looks like she's put her on probation.†   (source)
  • You're already on probation," he reminded me.†   (source)
  • And the Crimson Tide spent the next two seasons on probation.†   (source)
  • Did you know that both of your sons are on probation?†   (source)
  • I know what they were on probation for, Officer.†   (source)
  • 'Sorry — I mean — you're on probation?' he whispered.†   (source)
  • You're a seventeen-year-old foster kid who's on probation.†   (source)
  • Conant went on probation for a year, to prove herself again.†   (source)
  • I knew you'd gotten out of jail and that you were on probation here.†   (source)
  • As thanks for my bravery, Zeus has cut my probation at that miserable camp in half.†   (source)
  • "Probation means 'period of testing somebody's suitability; period when student must improve.'†   (source)
  • He'd been in trouble before and was on probation.†   (source)
  • He'd get probation, maybe have his license revoked, but he wouldn't end up behind bars.†   (source)
  • While the incident is being investigated, I'm on probation."†   (source)
  • She had not checked in with her probation officer and she had not called Tsige.†   (source)
  • This was a last strike, a violation of his probation.†   (source)
  • Wayne works on the boss and a week later I'm back, on probation, painting the warehouse.†   (source)
  • The same year he was fined and put on probation for smuggling alcohol.†   (source)
  • He willingly admits that probation and a drug treatment program would be in his best interest.†   (source)
  • She was back in prison on a probation violation.†   (source)
  • I have to see my probation officer every week.†   (source)
  • She kicked him out twice but after probationary weeks at Jo-Jo's allowed him to return.†   (source)
  • And Miss Duchannes was already on probation.†   (source)
  • She remembered a world with no cell phones, no Internet, and no probation officer to report to.†   (source)
  • "I've agreed to testify truthfully in exchange for immediate release and probation on my sentence."†   (source)
  • My only sensible plan was to sit tight, go to court, and hope for probation.†   (source)
  • Do I need to remind you you're on probation?"†   (source)
  • "It will have to be a no contest plea, and you'll have to agree to probation:' I said.†   (source)
  • We'll take three years of probation on aggravated assault.†   (source)
  • Thirty seconds later we were officers — "temporary, probationary, and supernumerary."†   (source)
  • He still had to face a hearing of school officials, however, and amazingly, they, too, chose mercy and only put him on probation.†   (source)
  • As a result of his new arrest, the judge revoked Terrance's probation and sentenced him to die in prison.†   (source)
  • He hadn't lived there long, but was already on probationary status for being loud and aggressive with the other residents.†   (source)
  • THE DEAN'S OFFICE TELLS ME THAT TWO SENIORS HAVE RECEIVED NOTICE OF DISCIPLINARY PROBATION—FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM!†   (source)
  • Terrance Graham was from Jacksonvile, Florida, and had been on probation when he was accused of trying to rob a store.†   (source)
  • And the case seemed to have little impact on Southam's professional standing: soon after the end of his probationary period, Southam was elected president of the American Association for Cancer Research.†   (source)
  • Here is how the incident is described in American Prometheus, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin's biography of Oppenheimer: "After protracted negotiations, it was agreed that Robert would be put on probation and have regular sessions with a prominent Harley Street psychiatrist in London.†   (source)
  • "Then it is the judgment of this court to sentence you to twoyears' suspended sentence and two years' probation, dependent upon …."†   (source)
  • There were only a few days left before the end of the winter term, which would also mark the end of Owen Meany's "disciplinary probation."†   (source)
  • 'Jus' busy, yeh know, usual stuff — lessons ter prepare — couple o' salamanders got scale rot — an' I'm on probation,' he mumbled.†   (source)
  • But within a year, California probation authorities ordered him to return to Los Angeles because he was on probation following his adjudication as a ward of the court for a prior offense.†   (source)
  • Tony is supposed to be on home detention for a drug conviction, and Wesley is still on probation for drug charges from a few years ago-†   (source)
  • Larry Lish, and everyone in possession of a fake draft card, was put on disciplinary probation—for the duration of the spring term.†   (source)
  • The final straw came one evening while she sat downstairs on the phone listening to my dean from Riverdale explain why they were placing me on academic and disciplinary probation.†   (source)
  • The headmaster proposed—in addition to Owen's probation— that he be removed from his position as editor-in-chief of The Grave, or that The Voice should be silenced until the end of the winter term; or both.†   (source)
  • The juvenile probation officer assigned to Joe's case attributed his behavior to the fact that "he is easily influenced and associates with the wrong crowd."†   (source)
  • Trelawney's on probation already…'†   (source)
  • And so the incident rested with Owen Meany receiving the punishment of disciplinary probation for the duration of the winter term; aside from the jeopardy this put him in—in regard to any other trouble he might get into—disciplinary probation was no great imposition, especially for a day boy.†   (source)
  • It's unclear how Tate was able to persuade Holman's warden to house two pretrial detainees on death row, although Tate knew people at the prison from his days as a probation officer.†   (source)
  • 'You're on probation?' said Ron very loudly, so that many of the passing students looked around curiously.†   (source)
  • And so he was spared; he was put on disciplinary probation—for the remainder of the winter term—with the warning, understood by all, that any offense of any kind would be considered "grounds for dismissal"; in such a case, he would be judged by the Executive Committee and none of his friends on the faculty could save him.†   (source)
  • Voldemort's got Sirius — 'You are on probation!' shrieked Professor Umbridge, and Snape looked back at her, his eyebrows slightly raised.†   (source)
  • Between his Quidditch ban and worry about whether or not Hagrid was going to be put on probation, he felt highly resentful towards the place at the moment.†   (source)
  • * The fact that Hagrid was now on probation became common knowledge within the school over the next few days, but to Harry's indignation, hardly anybody appeared to be upset about it; indeed, some people, Draco Malfoy prominent among them, seemed positively gleeful.†   (source)
  • Under the terms of Educational Decree Number Twenty-three, the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts has the power to inspect, place upon probation and sack any teacher she — that is to say, I — feel is not performing to the standards required by the Ministry of Magic.†   (source)
  • Instead of finishing the year he still had to serve, he was placed on probation and told to report to a parole officer.†   (source)
  • The coveted insignia recognizes those who have completed BUD/S training, made it through a six-to-nine-month probationary period, and passed advanced SEAL Tactical Training.†   (source)
  • Under the new policy, a school with low reading scores would be placed on probation and face the threat of being shut down, its staff to be dismissed or reassigned.†   (source)
  • Probation.†   (source)
  • Jordan eventually pleaded no contest to two counts of battery and violating his oath of office and was sentenced to two years' probation.†   (source)
  • What are you on probation for?†   (source)
  • They'll let him go on probation.†   (source)
  • He had been sentenced according to a scale that was incomprehensible to Salander: probation, fines, and repeated stints of thirty to sixty days in jail, until 1989 when he was put away for ten months for aggravated assault and robbery.†   (source)
  • Cedric Gilliam had been living with his mother, Maggie, for much of the past eight years since he was placed on probation.†   (source)
  • His probation had been quite clear on the fact that any violation would result in mandatory reincarceration, and because of his previous record and the fact that he was driving, there wasn't any way this would slide.†   (source)
  • I'm betting on probation.†   (source)
  • I'm on probation."†   (source)
  • Probation?†   (source)
  • With two months to go to finish my internship and for Deepak to finish his Chief Residency, our program was placed on probation.†   (source)
  • This impulse was often proved wrong when someone turned out to be returning to Danbury after violating the terms of their probation—they would often march right into the counselors' office and ask for their old bunkie and job assignment back.†   (source)
  • Probation.†   (source)
  • The disconcerting news was that if she ever materialized, I'd be third in line after the state health department and her probation officer.†   (source)
  • "She might be willing to enter a no contest plea to some offense so long as you agree to probation:' I said.†   (source)
  • If they go with voluntary manslaughter, she'd be eligible for probation, but I doubt if Judge Green would grant it.†   (source)
  • But I also knew that if I'd been accused of a crime I hadn't committed, nothing would persuade me to stand up and accept a three-year sentence, probation or no probation.†   (source)
  • He'd talked the prosecutor into reducing the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor, but because of the woman's long history of problems with the law, in exchange for the reduction the prosecutor had insisted that she forego probation and agree to serve her sentence in the county jail.†   (source)
  • You're agreeing to probation.†   (source)
  • When the juvenile court judge heard how much the kids had to drink, heard that they stole the booze and the pills they took from their own parents, and heard the shrink testify about peer pressure and gang mentality, she put them all on probation.†   (source)
  • Probation is impossible?†   (source)
  • Little Carmen had shipped out, too, with the rank of cadet midshipman (probationary) — she was going to be a pilot, all right, if she could cut it …. and I suspected that she could.†   (source)
  • The rail's electrified as far as Great Missenden, now," the probation officer added, and Leamas said that would be a help.†   (source)
  • Having completed his probationary period he undertook special tasks in Scandinavian countries—notably Norway, Sweden and Finland—where he succeeded in establishing an intelligence network which carried the battle against fascist agitators into the enemy's camp.†   (source)
  • After several offenses a sentence of confinement but with sentence suspended and the youngster placed on probation.†   (source)
  • If he kept out of major trouble while confined, he could usually evade most of even that mild punishment, be given probation — 'paroled' in the jargon of the times.†   (source)
  • We were going to be officers just enough for instruction and testing — "supernumerary, probationary, and temporary."†   (source)
  • The probationers were initiated into the cult of hygiene.†   (source)
  • Marking time rather than changing the subject, she said, "You're a probationer.†   (source)
  • The probationers and the second-year students worked twelve hours without rest.†   (source)
  • But the principal domain of the junior probationers was the sluice room.†   (source)
  • Probationers moved down the ward with piles of hot-water bottles.†   (source)
  • I wished I'd never told him about my dancing with the probationer.†   (source)
  • What I felt with the probationer, I never wanted to feel with anyone but Genet.†   (source)
  • I told him about the probationer, as if to prove my point.†   (source)
  • She handed it to the gowned and gloved probationer who stood nearby.†   (source)
  • The other nurses and probationers were back from dinner.†   (source)
  • Even the probationer began to show the first inkling of Sound Nursing Sense.†   (source)
  • In the palm was a seated woman in a posture of dejection—was the model the Staff Probationer?†   (source)
  • I thought of the probationer as I walked up the hill to our quarters.†   (source)
  • Stone held up his right hand for the probationer's inspection.†   (source)
  • In the chart the probationer used the words "white asphyxia" to describe their deathly pallor.†   (source)
  • Her glance let the probationer know she was a hopeless case.†   (source)
  • He would happily teach a probationer, or even a family member—whoever happened to be around.†   (source)
  • Twenty-two if you count the probationer.†   (source)
  • That meant the nurses and probationers were starving.†   (source)
  • Let the probationers know that all nursing classes are canceled.†   (source)
  • Other than her precarious hairdo, I'd always thought of the Staff Probationer as plain.†   (source)
  • There were thousands of Eritreans in Addis Ababa—people like the Staff Probationer, like Genet.†   (source)
  • The probationer had at least gone to sea—she was sure of that.†   (source)
  • When I found a voice I said, "Well would you mind not going back to the Staff Probationer?"†   (source)
  • But it was not a name she ever used; she had become the Staff Probationer even to herself.†   (source)
  • It was at this point that the probationer delivered her summons.†   (source)
  • Ghosh made leisurely rounds with the ward nurse and the probationers.†   (source)
  • The probationer's heart hammered against her breast like a moth in a lamp.†   (source)
  • THE PROBATIONER BROKE the ensuing silence.†   (source)
  • "And you," Hema said, snapping her fingers at the probationer, "get your hands out of your pockets."†   (source)
  • The probationer recorded in the chart the arrival of Dr. Hemlatha.†   (source)
  • Wasn't this what she herself preached to her probationers?†   (source)
  • The probationer, her face flushed and her pockmarks shining like sunken nailheads, added, "Amen."†   (source)
  • I'd always felt the probationer's discomfort around us.†   (source)
  • You could say the probationer's presence at Missing was an accident of history.†   (source)
  • She was one of a batch of probationers—there was a new intake every few months—and she had no identity beyond her badge.†   (source)
  • As Briony came up, a probationer with a Primus stove on a trolley was already preparing the fresh solution.†   (source)
  • For no apparent reason, the probationers were given a half day off, free from study, though they were to remain in uniform.†   (source)
  • The probationers worked their shifts in the wards, studied three hours a day in their spare time, and slept.†   (source)
  • In the week's holiday after preliminary training, before the probationer year began, she had stayed with her uncle and aunt in Primrose Hill and had resisted her mother on the telephone.†   (source)
  • But lately, the sister was not casting her mirthless smile in the direction of the probationers, nor speaking to them in the subdued voice that gave them such terrors.†   (source)
  • When they were not on their shifts, the probationers were in lessons in their free time, or lectures, or at practical demonstrations or studying alone.†   (source)
  • This impression was dispelled early on when a probationer in Briony's year, a large, kindly, slow-moving girl with a cow's harmless gaze, met the lacerating force of the ward sister's fury.†   (source)
  • Every morning the beds were pushed into the center so that the probationers could polish the floor with a heavy bumper that a girl on her own could barely swing from side to side.†   (source)
  • She and the other probationers of her set were aware of each other only as nurses, not as friends: she barely registered that one of the girls who had helped to move Corporal Maclntyre onto the bedpan was Fiona.†   (source)
  • With senior nurses seconded to casualty-receiving hospitals further out in the hospital's sector, and more cases coming in, the qualified nurses gave orders freely, and the probationers of Briony's set were given new responsibilities.†   (source)
  • The turnover among the dead was high, and for the probationers there was no drama now, only routine: the screens drawn round the padre's bedside murmur, the sheet pulled up, the porters called, the bed stripped and remade.†   (source)
  • By the time the girls were ready to start their course as probationers, and to work in the wards (they were never to say "on") under Sister Drummond, and to submit to the daily routine "from bedpan to Bovril," their previous lives were becoming indistinct.†   (source)
  • She scrubbed down the vacated lockers, helped wash bed frames in carbolic, swept and polished the floors, ran errands to the dispensary and the almoner at double speed without actually running, was sent with another probationer to help dress a boil in men's general, and covered for Fiona who had to visit the dentist.†   (source)
  • Crider bused in workers from a homeless shelter, and even cut a deal with local corrections officials that resulted in a controversial program to compel probationers and convicted felons to work in the plant as part of their restitution for their crimes.†   (source)
  • Instead of answering to "Probationer" (in the hospital) and "Novitiate" (in the convent), they could now be addressed in both places as "Sister."†   (source)
  • She'd been a student probationer forever, until Matron, taking pity on her, gave her a new title, Staff Probationer, which transformed her.†   (source)
  • The probationer had yet to deliver her message, and when she did, she failed to tell anyone how sick Sister was.†   (source)
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