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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The ringleaders are facing life in prison.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Detectives are now trying to trace the ringleader of what could be a new international racket.
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Dulé survived, however, to be brought to trial as a ringleader , to be an example to others.
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Shoot the ringleaders, that's what I say.
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The ringleader and another man lay on the ground, writhing and screaming.
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The arrested rioters were ultimately released, although the black ringleaders were ordered to leave town.
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The two other ringleaders escaped capture, but many other lesser lights were taken and rather harshly treated.
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Three weeks before Bloody Sunday he had recommended shooting selected ringleaders of the youths who regularly rioted in the city.
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When twelve deputy sheriffs came to serve warrants for arrest of the black ringleaders, they were ambushed in the grocery store.