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Examples
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After one of the officers completed a pat-down search, Lyons dropped his hands, but was ordered to place them back above his head.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Also, while this grandmother and her clan have my total sympathy, I can't help noticing that a lot of the furor over pat-down policies has come from the crazy right.
Dan Collins: Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right Dan Collins 2011
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The grandmother, as the whole world has now heard, was traveling from Florida to Michigan with her daughter, Jean Weber, when a Transportation Security Administration official said an agent felt something "suspicious" on her leg during a pat-down procedure.
Dan Collins: Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right Dan Collins 2011
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I don't know about you, but sympathetic as I feel to the plight of that elderly woman, the pat-down crisis is the least of my air travel worries.
Dan Collins: Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right Dan Collins 2011
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I don't know about you, but sympathetic as I feel to the plight of that elderly woman, the pat-down crisis is the least of my air travel worries.
Dan Collins: Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right Dan Collins 2011
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The grandmother, as the whole world has now heard, was traveling from Florida to Michigan with her daughter, Jean Weber, when a Transportation Security Administration official said an agent felt something "suspicious" on her leg during a pat-down procedure.
Dan Collins: Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right Dan Collins 2011
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… If there is something shielding an area and we don't know what's under it, we have to conduct a pat-down.
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Also, while this grandmother and her clan have my total sympathy, I can't help noticing that a lot of the furor over pat-down policies has come from the crazy right.
Dan Collins: Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right Dan Collins 2011
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Also, while this grandmother and her clan have my total sympathy, I can't help noticing that a lot of the furor over pat-down policies has come from the crazy right.
Dan Collins: Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right Dan Collins 2011
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I don't know about you, but sympathetic as I feel to the plight of that elderly woman, the pat-down crisis is the least of my air travel worries.
Dan Collins: Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right Dan Collins 2011
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