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  • A “tipping-off” offence could prevent innocent associates from complaining publicly, with a penalty of five-years imprisonment, he added.

    Discourse.net: We Predicted This Would Happen: Man Jailed in UK for Failing to Disclose Passphrase 2009

  • The Bush administration prodded Pakistan for its apparent double standards but failed to extract any positive commitment; Pakistanis did launch some half-hearted operations to root out Taliban but failed to capture the top leadership (there are reports of tipping-off by some rogue elements in the Pakistani military).

    Saad Khan: The Afghanistan Problem, and a Solution 2009

  • Curiously, I haven't read much outrage over another "fictitious" scene where former Secretary of State Madeline Albright is castigated for tipping-off the Pakistani government, in August of 1998, that cruise missiles were being fired at bin Laden's hideout in Afghanistan.

    Sound Politics: The Path to 9/11 2006

  • You need a tipping-off point, always, and I realized that I'd already begun that with the song and I just chased that.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

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