noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
double jeopardy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
double
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Lawyers argued that it would be unfair and oppressive to remove the protection of the double jeopardy rule.
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None was a case of double jeopardy .
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Abolishing the rule of double jeopardy after a full trial and jury acquittal is unprincipled and impractical, he said.
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Nor is there any double jeopardy bar to a civil case following a criminal acquittal.
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The review of double jeopardy is not a zany proposal.
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Does the Merger Regulation prevent double jeopardy ?
■ VERB
place
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The criminal trial system would be placed in jeopardy .
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Because in the act of explanation he would have to reveal his past culpability, and this would place him in jeopardy .
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If it were to do so, the very existence of the currency union would be placed in jeopardy .
put
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This infantile behaviour is putting the book in jeopardy and makes it very hard to collate info on what's going on.
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J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.
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I was not prepared to see that record put in jeopardy .
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The message jolted him, for it suddenly put our destination in jeopardy .
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None of that, for reasons that I have already explained, is put in jeopardy by the trust proposal.
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He is not put into jeopardy for having made the mistakes but for having learned from them.
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For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy .
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Her film career languished and her friendship with the outspokenly leftist Paul Robeson put Horne in further jeopardy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because in the act of explanation he would have to reveal his past culpability, and this would place him in jeopardy .
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It would put his career at risk, but that was already in jeopardy , so what had he to lose?
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J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.
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This infantile behaviour is putting the book in jeopardy and makes it very hard to collate info on what's going on.
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Yet without fairly radical surgery, the long-term health of the company might have been in jeopardy .