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  • Back then, you still hadn't been politically rehabilitated.†   (source)
  • Mom's rehab proceeded apace, and her condition apparently improved with time.†   (source)
  • We've given up on rehabilitation, education, and services for the imprisoned because providing assistance to the incarcerated is apparently too kind and compassionate.†   (source)
  • They dug into their pockets, offering us almost forty pounds toward Will's rehabilitation fund, and only stopped insisting when I told them we would be happiest if they would have a drink on us instead.†   (source)
  • Brad's parents sent him to rehabilitation because Brad's father didn't want him to miss his chance at a football scholarship.†   (source)
  • One of the young witnesses had been enrolled in a drug-rehabilitation program.†   (source)
  • My dad volunteered part-time at the bird rescue, where he helped rehabilitate snowy egrets hit by cars and pelicans that had swallowed fishhooks.†   (source)
  • Guess who got sent to rehab for snorting coke.†   (source)
  • I'm not going to lie: My rehab sucked.†   (source)
  • The twins thought they had been trying hard, and Jackson in particular, feeling he was still in disgrace in the Tallis household, thought he might begin to rehabilitate himself by pleasing Briony.†   (source)
  • They had just started this process of rehabilitation, so this was one of the first lessons they had to learn.†   (source)
  • The Guide also tells you on which planets the best Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters are mixed, how much you can expect to pay for one and what voluntary organizations exist to help you rehabilitate afterward.†   (source)
  • In 1980 he was "rehabilitated" and appointed Vice President of the Children's Art Theater.†   (source)
  • If hijacking rehabilitation has been attempted before, we have no access to those records.†   (source)
  • Horst was in for rehab but Martin was in because he is really, truly nuts.†   (source)
  • She's single-handedly rehabilitated you.†   (source)
  • While incarcerated, he went through drug and alcohol rehabilitation, got his GED, and taught GED classes to other inmates for twenty-five dollars a month.†   (source)
  • I've visited numerous prisons, juvenile detention centers, sober-living homes and rehabilitation centers.†   (source)
  • My own private Mission: Impossible was to rehabilitate this dog and prove to Jenny he was worthy.†   (source)
  • No jazz, no heroin, no rehab centers, maybe, but trouble very much of the kind Sonny has: the troubled spirit that lies behind the outward modern manifestations of heroin and prison.†   (source)
  • Like Zhang Shu, other experienced teachers who had previously been accused of being rightists were now rehabilitated and allowed to return.†   (source)
  • They had heard of my rehabilitation work in Holland, he said, and they wondered—I was opening my mouth to say that I had no professional training in such things, when his next words silenced me.†   (source)
  • It looks as though T.Bone is going to get out of this with nothing worse than a sewn-on hand and some rehab work, be-cause you can't stab a person to death that way, not if he is wearing armor.†   (source)
  • "That and because his mom was in and out of rehab centers constantly," said Sean.†   (source)
  • All I wanted to hear was how long it was going to take to rehab.†   (source)
  • Followers of Black Imagination would have to be monitored; members of the population addicted to artificial crystal or imagination stimulants rehabilitated; those thriving by corrupt business practices would comply with more ethical modes of professional conduct or be shut down.†   (source)
  • The rehab people treated me like a celebrity.†   (source)
  • Big rehab fun!†   (source)
  • For a man who was on life support at County-USC before his transfer to Rancho Los Amigos for rehab, Adams looks remarkably good.†   (source)
  • Soon Charles started to talk, and before a month ended, we sent him to rehab.†   (source)
  • We all hoped he'd return and serenade us from the window of the drug-rehabilitation ward.†   (source)
  • Plus, the extensive rehabilitation that would be required might prove to be more than he could take.†   (source)
  • She worked at a rehabilitation centre and was apparently happily remarried to one of Bjurman's former colleagues.†   (source)
  • They had failed at rehabilitating the dangerous ones and hauled them off in the night, but the so-called "improvements" didn't stop there.†   (source)
  • And not just any warden, if he was to believe the conspiracy enthusiast Sal Weathers—the warden, the one who had changed Brookline's history and rehabilitated a serial killer.†   (source)
  • After The Paper folded, Lois took a job doing public relations for an injury rehabilitation institute.†   (source)
  • I just figured they didn't care and thought Phillip was a totally rehabilitated offender.†   (source)
  • Jo-Jo had already rehabilitated two of his siblings, who were on their way to owning their own stores.†   (source)
  • And as for me, I had Mia's rehabilitation to worry about, not my own.†   (source)
  • Prajwala increasingly began to work with the government and aid groups to provide rehabilitation, counseling, and other services.†   (source)
  • The lawyers partied hard every night, suffered through the depositions with awful hangovers, and two of them entered rehab when the ordeal was over.†   (source)
  • I'm surprised you're not in rehab or some juvie boot camp.†   (source)
  • I have freed myself from physical addiction, no rehab but to endure sweating, puking, and cardiovascular jumping jacks.†   (source)
  • I just had to get some rehab and suck it up.†   (source)
  • It was the only serious rehabilitative program at Danbury (other than the puppies), and it is currently the only way in the federal system to significantly reduce your sentence.†   (source)
  • My father was screwed up like always, and he promised to go into rehab, get a job.†   (source)
  • For six months, we have been confined to this campus while we repaired, rebuilt, and rehabilitated.†   (source)
  • But I still had to stay in the hospital for a long time, and then there were months of rehab.†   (source)
  • Nearly a year ago I'd seen a sign at the foot of Morne Kabrit where the paving gave out, a sign that announced the imminent rehabilitation of National Highway 3.†   (source)
  • The rumors about why I was absent for the last month of my sophomore year ranged from pregnancy to rehab to attempted suicide.†   (source)
  • Well—I really am sorry to interrupt—but my daughter would like to wear my grandmother's wedding dress for her wedding next June, but we just haven't been able to find anyone willing to, um, rehab it.†   (source)
  • I will never get back the months of my lift that I spent in rehabilitation and in and out of hospitals, instead of in recitals and in and out of school.†   (source)
  • The ultimate rehabilitation?†   (source)
  • It made her think about that year of rehab after the accident: "Pick up the pen.†   (source)
  • I thought—I thought if I found drugs there, I could help you, get you into a rehab program, but this?†   (source)
  • Either that, or back to rehabilitation center!†   (source)
  • Two Silvers, one of which landed you in rehab for three months, three Bronzes with V-devices, and a trio of Purples.†   (source)
  • Ambrose, spindly female, mixed race, head of chemical rehab at the Midtown Rehabilitation Center for Substance Addiction.†   (source)
  • For insight into the psychology of child soldiers, I am particularly grateful to the late Michael Oruni, director of World Vision's Children of War Rehabilitation Centre in Gulu, northern Uganda, and my conversation with former members of the Lord's Resistance Army rehabilitated at the Centre; Dr. Philip Lancaster, United Nations Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire's executive assistant during the Rwandan genocide; Tariq Bhanjee of UNICEF; Justin Daniel Peffer of Plan International; Raymond Micah and Amanue†   (source)
  • When my Caleb became a casualty, they kept me under sedation for six weeks, then rehabilitated me for other work.†   (source)
  • After his rehabilitation, my father didn't need us shut-ding back and forth anymore.†   (source)
  • It was decided that the tape would have to be cleaned and rehabilitated.†   (source)
  • She is development director for the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, and teaches classes in nonviolent communication at Madonna University.†   (source)
  • Chelsea wants to go to rehab, but there isn't any money.†   (source)
  • Some fifteen minutes earlier, when Franny had been rehabilitated enough to sit up and look around for her comb, Mrs. Glass had brought over the straight chair from the writing table and placed it squarely up against the coffee table.†   (source)
  • Public rehabilitation, that's what they organized for Mundt.†   (source)
  • Someone says he's been suspended, others say he overdosed and was carted off to rehab.†   (source)
  • It wasn't as if we were criminals in need of rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Lucky for him then; but now that dead suburb was being rehabilitated.†   (source)
  • It was presently his headquarters but in a few years he planned to rehabilitate Patrick Air Force Base, on Cape Canaveral, and transfer there.†   (source)
  • He was trying to obtain the political rehabilitation of his family and permission for them to return to Russia.†   (source)
  • Oh, but I am her daddy, boy, and court says I been rehabilitated.   (source)
    rehabilitated = restored to a state of good condition
  • It was rumored that he was as skilled now as the Rehabilitation Directors themselves,   (source)
    rehabilitation = related to restoring people to a state of good condition
  • "I can help you find a rehab facility near you," Momma says.   (source)
    rehab = program to help restore someone to a healthy condition (in this case, after an illness)
  • Cole talked about his rehabilitation after being rescued, and about returning to the island.   (source)
    rehabilitation = to restore someone to a state of good condition
  • Probably the one with scientific aptitude was Benjamin, the male who had devised new, important equipment for the Rehabilitation Center.   (source)
    rehabilitation = related to restoring people to a state of good condition
  • A male Eleven named Benjamin had done his entire nearly-Four years in the Rehabilitation Center, working with citizens who had been injured.   (source)
  • Every other day I did rehabilitation at the hospital in Fort Stewart.†   (source)
  • If they were carting you around and using you to explain the rehab program, then why ...?†   (source)
  • A few months later, Craig was admitted to the Good Samaritan Rehabilitation Hospital.†   (source)
  • They know now that it is possible for you boys to be rehabilitated.†   (source)
  • Then three more hours of rehab in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • They offered her places to stay, supported her through rehab, and paid for her nursing school.†   (source)
  • Payasa looked different, following several months in rehab hospitals and half-way homes.†   (source)
  • As part of my rehabilitation, I take short walks aboveground each day.†   (source)
  • If I complete the rehab program, my file gets sealed.†   (source)
  • I got to work, trying to rehab it and recover as quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • Ye then received a notice: Both she and her father had been politically rehabilitated.†   (source)
  • A week later I was back in the United States for rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Nobody would let me see her after she was taken to a rehabilitation hospital for teenage addicts.†   (source)
  • I have been rehabilitated now, so don't be afraid of me.†   (source)
  • Back in 13, Peeta's rehabilitation continues.†   (source)
  • —We can be rehabilitated," I would emphasize, and point to myself as an example.†   (source)
  • Part of his job was to find a place for me to live after I had completed my rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Some friends who had undergone rehabilitation with me had already rejoined the army.†   (source)
  • Mr. Varga is not present just for your award, Max; he will finish his rehabilitation here.†   (source)
  • Daddy checked himself into a pricey rehab, promised to get his head fixed.†   (source)
  • Remember, this is a place of rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Along the way, the little horse and the men who rehabilitated him captured the American imagination.†   (source)
  • Then, of course, he needed lots of rehab...†   (source)
  • But the rehabilitation was producing results.†   (source)
  • About a year ago, I completed my third rehab.†   (source)
  • When he found out that I was ....dependent, he pushed me to go into rehab, to stop taking the drink.†   (source)
  • I know it is sad that graduating from a drug rehab is your greatest goal, but it is more than that.†   (source)
  • "Of course some of us," Jordan muttered, "are easier to rehabilitate than others."†   (source)
  • If she sold it, she'd be lucky to get enough to pay for half a day of rehab.†   (source)
  • He needed to go back to the Ersta rehabilitation home and go to bed.†   (source)
  • She left the rehab center after four weeks, two weeks ahead of schedule.†   (source)
  • When Katie came home from rehab, I approached each day with the zeal of a drill sergeant.†   (source)
  • "For research and rehabilitation," Ambrose said tightly.†   (source)
  • He was satisfied with the progress of her physical rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Dad was transferred to a VA rehab place after the hospital.†   (source)
  • Her therapists altered her rehabilitation plan, allowing her to spend more time practicing.†   (source)
  • For the past fourteen months he had been in a rehabilitation home in Ersta.†   (source)
  • Salander was in rehabilitation at Sahlgrenska and was up to her neck in her own problems.†   (source)
  • At lunchtime Armansky received a call from the rehabilitation home in Ersta.†   (source)
  • Well, then, Lieutenant, I'd like to arrange for my client's release and her admission into rehab.†   (source)
  • He was quite close to the rehabilitation home in Ersta.†   (source)
  • This was part of the Gordon Rehabilitation Plan.†   (source)
  • "She might have survived in Pakistan, but she wouldn't have had the rehabilitation and would have been disfigured," he said.†   (source)
  • Haley Weaver had been sent to Boston for plastic surgery; John Eberhard was in some rehab place reading Hop on Pop and learning how to drink from a straw; Matt and Courtney and Maddie were gone forever.†   (source)
  • He did not feel any need at all for social rehabilitation, he had completed his studies, he thought, and he already had a job.†   (source)
  • I knew the only way for me to recover was to be as disciplined and dedicated with my rehabilitation as I had been with my dancing.†   (source)
  • No Dad, Mom's in rehab.†   (source)
  • Tommy O'Hara has been in rehab twice.†   (source)
  • The housing market is obscene, health care is a luxury, addiction rehab is in short supply, the schools have shameful dropout rates, the service economy doesn't pay a living wage, the notorious L.A. gangs are selling drugs outside twelve-step programs, the psychiatric emergency room is jammed and mental health services like the ones at Lamp are few and far between.†   (source)
  • My neighbor Barry, a fearless single woman who had bought and rehabilitated a rundown bungalow next to the Nedermier house, jumped into her car and joined the chase.†   (source)
  • "I might turn the house over to a charitable society," he mused, "to be used as a drug-rehabilitation center.†   (source)
  • Things were getting out of hand—at school there was trouble, some people had to go to rehab, others got expelled — I needed to cut ties with Jimmy, see, do something else for a while.†   (source)
  • He'd come pretty far in rehab, but after a year with no improvement I think he found it tough to keep believing it was worth it.†   (source)
  • Their punishments were humane, and their policymakers took rehabilitation of criminal offenders very seriously, which made me excited about the award and the trip.†   (source)
  • There was a kid rotting in jail; there were ten people decomposing in graves; there were dozens in rehab and corrective surgery; there were hundreds-like Josie-who still could not get through the day without bursting into tears; there were parents-like Alex-who trusted Diana to get justice done on their behalf.†   (source)
  • Accompanying the letter was a sum of money: the back pay owed to her father after his rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • The usual course of treatment for such an injury is icing, anti-inflammatory medication, and physical rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Dr. Fiona said it was likely I would have a speech impediment and a weak right arm and right leg, so I would need extensive rehabilitation facilities, which Pakistan didn't have.†   (source)
  • Three hours of rehab in the morning.†   (source)
  • Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated.†   (source)
  • The scientists were looking for ways to strip the kids' abilities—"rehabilitate" them—but they had mostly just stripped their will to live.†   (source)
  • I launched a nonprofit organization called the Savannah Landmark Rehabilitation Project, which has been a triumph, because the board includes everybody—black, white, you name it, rich and poor.†   (source)
  • For the first time, Uncle Jimmy learned Mom's true financial impact on Mamaw—the drug rehab charges, the numerous "loans" never repaid.†   (source)
  • And I thank all the teachers, librarians, parents, students, law enforcement officers, judges, booksellers, writers, rehab counselors and community activists who have ensured my books remain on the shelves, in the hands of young people, and have also helped in fighting the censorship attempts, allowing new generations to enjoy and learn from this story.†   (source)
  • The hospital refused to allow other visitors even though they were inundated by requests, as they wanted me to be able to concentrate on my rehabilitation in private.†   (source)
  • The doctor had done me a favor by letting me rehab in his army hospital— and I repaid him by almost dying on him.†   (source)
  • Ye still hadn't been rehabilitated politically, and the base leadership was unsure about this suggested solution.†   (source)
  • I had studied Sweden's progressive approach to the rehabilitation of criminal offenders as a graduate student and had long marveled at how focused on recovery their system appeared.†   (source)
  • There is simply no way to reproduce the routine of medication, exercise, and stimulation these rehab centers are using to keep your children alive.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of law school, Lindsay called to tell me that Mom had taken to a new drug—heroin—and had decided to give rehab another try.†   (source)
  • We had a good week of practice preparing to host LSU in Gainesville, during which I worked in some rehab on my knee.†   (source)
  • I didn't know how many times Mom had been to rehab, how many nights she'd spent in the hospital barely conscious because of some drug.†   (source)
  • But there is no minimum age for kidnapping, so the Orange County judge sentenced Antonio to imprisonment until death, asserting that he was a dangerous gang member who could never change or be rehabilitated, despite his difficult background and the absence of any significant criminal history.†   (source)
  • The pain was so intense that I couldn't stop tears from coming out of my eyes—I'd been still for too long before the rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Always, my lips began to form the same words: My name is Clancy Gray, and I am here to tell you how the camp rehabilitation program saved my life.†   (source)
  • We've become so fearful and vengeful that we've thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak—not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken.†   (source)
  • And my father leaves me alone because he wouldn't be able to stand the outrage if I expose the fact that there is no rehabilitation program, not for people like you and me.†   (source)
  • With Papaw gone and Mom in rehab at the Cincinnati Center for Addiction Treatment—or "the CAT house," as we called it—I began to feel myself a burden.†   (source)
  • I skimmed over an opinion piece that celebrated the rehabilitation camps and was more amused than offended that Psi kids were now being openly referred to as "mutant time bombs."†   (source)
  • Mr. Kamara, the director of your former rehabilitation center, recommended that you go for the interview.†   (source)
  • I will check on you after you've completed your rehabilitation to see how you are doing in your new life.†   (source)
  • My well-placed sources in the Gray administration have informed me that all instances in which a child has been removed from rehabilitation early have resulted in their untimely death.†   (source)
  • We found this place and went to work, and all the while my father couldn't put a bounty out on me, not without exposing the truth about me and his rehab program.†   (source)
  • It was at the beginning of my seventh month at the rehabilitation center when Leslie came again to have a chat.†   (source)
  • The government issued a notice that any parents who didn't feel safe or capable of taking care of their kiddos could send them to school on a specific morning, and the Psi Special Forces would be there to collect them for rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Later, after I had been rehabilitated, I learned that Esther knew what I was interested in through the informal schooling at the center.†   (source)
  • Well, I am from the part of the country where I have not only suffered because of the war but I have also participated in it and undergone rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • But we were not taken back to the front lines; instead, they took us to Benin Home, another rehabilitation center in Kissy Town at the eastern outskirts of Freetown, away from the rest of the city.†   (source)
  • Dr. Sivarnandan of the Ersta rehabilitation home had been less than enchanted at the idea of letting him out, but Palmgren himself had insisted.†   (source)
  • She was in a rehab clinic, where she'd ended up two weeks earlier after being found unconscious by a maid in the hotel where she'd been living in Tennessee.†   (source)
  • At the station, relics like this would be delegated to some low-level drone, or more likely, kicked to a charity rehab center.†   (source)
  • His spine broken by Marley Augur's hideous hammer, Peter had been rehabilitating at Rowan and was often kept company by Mr. McDaniels, who pushed him along in a wheelchair so he could look out over the Atlantic.†   (source)
  • I'd long ago resolved to be cordial but not overly so, lest I be sucked into some conversation about what celebrity was in rehab or strap versus strapless dresses.†   (source)
  • At the time, a year ago, he had thought of the scoop with colossal satisfaction—as vengeance and as rehabilitation.†   (source)
  • Rehab.†   (source)
  • For starters, a long convalescence at a private rehabilitation center, but even before that, your complete cooperation right now.†   (source)
  • We kept on scouting neighborhoods for homeless shelters, community centers, training schools, drug rehabilitation clinics, halfway houses.†   (source)
  • Pollard had learned a thing or two about training from Smith, and he managed Seabiscuit's rehabilitation carefully.†   (source)
  • For insight into the psychology of child soldiers, I am particularly grateful to the late Michael Oruni, director of World Vision's Children of War Rehabilitation Centre in Gulu, northern Uganda, and my conversation with former members of the Lord's Resistance Army rehabilitated at the Centre; Dr. Philip Lancaster, United Nations Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire's executive assistant during the Rwandan genocide; Tariq Bhanjee of UNICEF; Justin Daniel Peffer of Plan International; Raymond Micah and Amanuel Melles of the African Canadian Social Development Council; filmmakers Oliver Stoltz and Ali Samadi Ahadi, wh†   (source)
  • So far, Prajwala has rehabilitated some fifteen hundred young women by moving them through six to eight months of job training that will help them start new careers.†   (source)
  • It says that once you catch a criminal you can try to help him get better — give him Prozac, put him in therapy, try to rehabilitate him — but there is very little you can do to prevent crime from happening in the first place.†   (source)
  • I visited him the other day at his rehabilitation center in Minnesota, or Michigan, I can't actually remember which, for I flew first class and the drinks were delivered on request.†   (source)
  • Once they resuscitated her at the hospital, the police found some outstanding bad-check warrants, so she'd had to choose: rehab or jail.†   (source)
  • Since the previous spring, he had been spending his days rehabilitating after the dreadful injuries he suffered from Marley Augur.†   (source)
  • The rehabilitation centers are a curious sight in India: They are alive with the sounds of hammering and shouts, with young women pounding nails, lugging steel bars, and operating machinery.†   (source)
  • In examining Pollard's leg, Babcock discovered that the Massachusetts doctors hadn't managed the setting and rehabilitation of Pollard's leg properly.†   (source)
  • All of this had got me thinking, and a few days before my birthday, I'd sat down at my desk to write a letter, long overdue, to my own mother, who was still in rehab in Tennessee.†   (source)
  • This story from the book of Luke would become his favorite, one he returned to repeatedly for inspiration while attending the rehab program.†   (source)
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