"afford" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It could afford bail.
- They are there awaiting trial, often for months, usually because they cannot not afford bail.
- Defendants who can't afford bail often hire the services of a private bail-bond agency to front the cash.
- In the early twentieth century, county jails were primarily for holding individuals who were awaiting trial that could not afford bail.
- He and his best friend Spike Nolan (Candy), the catcher for the Bulls, are arrested and cannot afford bail.
- Many are locked up not because they have been judged a threat to public safety, but because they are too poor to afford bail.
- He said keeping youths in jail because they cannot afford bail was wrong if it was done "just to appease the bloody thirst of the public."
- The proof of this lies in the fact that our jails are filled with men and women who are awaiting trial and cannot afford bail.
- The pilot could not afford bail and was thrown in jail.
- So how did that guy on Law & Order afford $100,000 bail?
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