Do you have any reason for thinking any kind of ratline is necessary for former commie criminals to get into the US?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bringing Communist Human Rights Violators to Justice:] Reference
With this in mind, will the Syrian "ratline" become largely exterminated?. From Wordnik.com. [Westhawk] Reference
She hitched her belly tight and kicked up a foot to catch a ratline. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
Slowly he worked his way along the ratline, looking for the source of the sound. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
This ratline was a simple rope which usually hung about eight yards out from the mainmast. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
The Ukranian resistance lasted until the 1950's, when the survivors jumped on the Nazi ratline and came west. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
They've taken a lot of hits from the U.S. especially the U.S. military saying they're not doing enough to stop these so-called ratline. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2008] Reference
The foremost shroud of the lower rigging has only a "catch ratline;" that is, one ratline in about six continued to the shroud that lies furthest forward. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
He couldn't pull himself onto the top spar — it was simply too coated with ice — but he found the shroud lines there and shifted from the ratline to the loosened, folded shroud beneath the spar. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
A few yards farther on, a prickly aloetic plant disfigured by a wide tear the other leg of my pyjamas, and almost immediately I tripped against a convolvulus strong as ratline, and was made to measure my length on a bed of thorns. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
Blanky grabbed the edge of the man-line rigging and slid down it as quickly he would a free line or ratline, his numbed fingers tearing against the cross ropes, each impact threatening to throw him off the rigging and out into darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
"There's a ratline running right down there" into Pakistan, said Col. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
His appointment was announced a day after the foundation's previous Pakistan, one ratline proved simple. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Farmer uses organic manure, reaps good yield] Reference
A piece of small ratline was fixed to the slings, with the handlead made fast to it so that it would sink. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
In walking along her gun-deck, he accidentally ran against a ratline, by which one of her starboard guns was discharged. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
A sailor came slipping down the ratline one night, as though something had happened, and the sailors cried, "What's the matter?". From Wordnik.com. [The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony] Reference
"Collins, bring your party into this room; and do not forget to bring along that length of ratline that I told you to have ready.". From Wordnik.com. [A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story] Reference
But the US military has not denied the Taliban now own the Kamdish district, which sits astride a Taliban ratline into Pakistan's northern district of Chitral. From Wordnik.com. [The Long War Journal] Reference
If it was there, as soon as he caught sight of it, he would spring up into the rigging and sit on a ratline, as quiet and demure as a judge, without attempting to retaliate. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Midshipmen] Reference
Not that I was any longer ambitious of being a sailor, and could I have transported myself safely home again at that moment, it is not likely I should ever afterwards have set foot upon a ratline. From Wordnik.com. [Ran Away to Sea] Reference
The last of the fish had been whipped out, and Harvey leaped from the string-piece six feet to a ratline, as the shortest way to hand Disko the tally, shouting, "Two ninety-seven, and an empty hold!". From Wordnik.com. [Captains Courageous] Reference
While Gelli worked with the respective intelligence agencies (which included those of the CIA, MI5 and fugitive Gestapo officials), Fr. Draganovich secured generous Vatican support for the ratline plan. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
"Come, my men," I heard Mr Mackay calling out, as I at last put my foot down to feel for the nearest ratline before commencing to descend the rigging, "look sharp with that fore-tops'le or we'll have it go like the mizzen!". From Wordnik.com. [Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea] Reference
We also conveyed to the cook-house a quantity of ratline stuff -- a thin rope used for making of the steps in the shroud ladders; this being a line that would exactly serve to suspend the smaller parcels of powder in the splits. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
The captain reminded him, however, that he had a long way yet to climb, by observing that he had only just got his foot on the lower ratline, but that, if he went on as he had begun, he would certainly, if he lived, get to the top. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy] Reference
In an instant I had all four of the buoys ready, and two of them bent on to the longest rope-ends I could lay my hands on, and, in another, that glorious Bob appeared with a coil of ratline on his shoulder and a lighted blue-light in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [For Treasure Bound] Reference
The two lieutenants were middle-aged men, who had gained their present position by long service and hard work, and they looked with a jealous eye on one who had been placed on the next ratline below them, over the heads of many older men than himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Rival Crusoes] Reference
A very reluctant step -- at the rate of about one ratline in ten seconds. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
"lash-rail" -- where the top of it towered up as high as the third ratline of the main-rigging. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
A merchantman, for in war-ships the catch ratline is on the aftermost shroud instead of on the foremost. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
Takriti, meanwhile, fled down the ratline. From Wordnik.com. [The Invasion Of Iraq] Reference
Maybe the old ratline family friends in Paraguay. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Hey Team Libby…(Part III)] Reference
For my 2c ‘ incompetence’ allows them a ratline. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Glossies Turn on Bush] Reference
"And now, my boy, that your foot is on the first ratline, mount upwards by your own exertions. From Wordnik.com. [Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War] Reference
Get a couple of lines seven or eight feet long; we will fasten them under our arms, and if a puff comes harder than usual we can twist the end round a shroud or ratline. ". From Wordnik.com. [At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt] Reference
Pakistan, one ratline proved simple. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Mullen visits front line of Afghanistan war] Reference
I'm as tough as ratline hemp still. ". From Wordnik.com. [Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea] Reference
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