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The Army responded by court-martialling him and throwing him in jail for 20 days.
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The authorities were terrified of the publicity which would almost certainly have resulted from court-martialling an officer of known valor (Sassoon was becoming famous as a poet and had won the M.C.) and sending him to a shell-shock hospital was a damage-limitation exercise, not a kindness.
A Terrible State of Nerves Wilson, Jean Moorcroft 1996
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I may tell you that when he learned that Goolab had got the boy, he spoke of court-martialling you.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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There would probably be some court-martialling of their patrols.
The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur
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The court-martialling and prompt execution at Pretoria of the rebel leader, Captain Fourie, shows what the Union Government is minded to do _pour décourager les autres_.
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Pottley, of the London train-bands, and by the look of the papers around them they had been checking the lists (as two days later there was heavy court-martialling among the newly arrived drafts and cashiering of officers that had misbehaved in Middlesex).
Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The rest of the year was uneventful, except for the court-martialling of
The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Now, the decision on court-martialling Manning goes on to the next level of military review, and none of it means Manning has yet to be proven guilty of anything.
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Now, the decision on court-martialling Manning goes on to the next level of military review, and none of it means Manning has yet to be proven guilty of anything.
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Tuesday will see the resumption of the court-martialling of Gen Fonseka on charges of unlawful political involvement while in uniform and of irregular procurement practices.
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