Sentence examples for a second bite at the apple from inspiring English sources

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"The recall was not envisioned as a second bite at the apple after an election had been duly conducted".

"When you have that much leverage, and that much money in the bank, even if it doesn't work you often get a second bite at the apple".

Indeed, the proposed legislation takes pains to try to ensure that the Supreme Court will not have a second bite at the apple.

"This is exactly the type of regulation that industry has had problems with, and they would love to get a second bite at the apple," he said.

But it was "absolutely outrageous," he said, that prosecutors, having put on a limited case and losing the original suppression motion, used their "position to say it doesn't matter -- we get a second bite at the apple".

To make doubly sure that a higher bid doesn't come from a bidder that loses an auction and tries for a second bite at the apple, a standstill agreement is also drawn up to prevent the bidder from even asking for the standstill provision to be waived.

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"The prosecution doesn't get a third bite at the apple to give her death.

And the GOP had been at it for such a long time that it was second-bite-at-the-apple time for Sens. Coburn and Burr, who joined Sen. Hatch in creating the "Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment Act".

Hudson got a second bite at the fame apple when she auditioned for the Motown-era musical.

He was unsuccessfully attacked many times for being a "socialist", so to label the current healthcare proposal as such is nothing more than a second bite at the electoral apple.

In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the majority had improperly given prosecutors "the proverbial second bite at the apple".

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