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breaking

(= breakage, break) the act of breaking something the breakage was unavoidable

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I can't blame you for breaking your promise.
Tom apologized for breaking the window.
An icebreaker is breaking a path through the ice.
Breaking the quarantine is punishable.
You cannot make omelets without breaking eggs.
My patience has come to the breaking point.
I must apologize to you for breaking the vase.
This means that houses are starting to sink, roads are breaking up and lamp-posts are leaning at crazy angles.
If you keep breaking the club rules, you'll get thrown out.
I'm breaking in my new shoes.
Don't punish him for breaking the window. He is not to blame.
I especially want to thank our record-breaking sales team.
I wonder what's wrong with him. He keeps breaking his word these days.
He's always breaking into our conversation.
She was close to breaking into tears.
Day is breaking.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The boy admitted breaking the window.
Waves are breaking against the rocks.
She forgave me for breaking her mirror.
The dawn is breaking.
Forgive me for breaking my promise.
He can do five somersaults without breaking a sweat.
The thief cut the telephone lines before breaking into the house.

Movie subtitles

And second of all, as far as the breaking goes, you have no idea of my intent to steal your prescription pad.
No, no, Paula, I'm breaking my old patterns.
Uh, and she is currently breaking up with her girlfriend, like as we speak, which is, yes, I know, a little complicated, but I kissed a girl.
Dear miss, please come to my place at 4 o'clock. They're breaking up.
Matyushenko, under the guise of breaking ranks, calls the sailors to the gun turret.
Come near breaking mine, too.
Day is breaking.
Proud of breaking safes or cheating at cards?
And then he'll be after breaking her poor heart.
By breaking statues. one risks. turning into one. oneself.
Here! So you're breaking off the negotiations.
What do you mean by breaking up that Lakeview joint last night?
Breaking Into My Apartment?
THE MEN ARE BREAKING RANKS.
Come near breaking' mine too.
Day is breaking. We have him trapped.
Sir, this is an outrage, breaking into a man's home.
So you're breaking off the negotiations.
HcHardie has the ball and he's breaking through.
I see you're breaking into society.
If you can go down the cellar without breaking your necks bring up some of my best wine.
The men are breaking ranks.
And you had to talk me into breaking out just to come on this wild-goose chase of yours.
First, I want to know what you mean by breaking in here like an assassin. and causing this utterly ridiculous scene!
Just breaking it in for a friend.
Been up to Capital City, strike-breaking for the streetcar company.
One moment, they are crazy in love, and the next moment, they're on the verge of breaking up. What are you doing?
Isaac breaking out of jail, trying to kill Stiles. this is the first time you see an Alpha interacting with their beta.
On what grounds? Breaking and entering.
We were breaking up a disturbance at a bar - and we turned around.
Stop, stop, you're breaking my heart.
NO USE BREAKING MY UMBRELLA.
Jane darling, we've had wars before without the world breaking.
Vagrancy, petty theft, resisting police breaking and entering and holdup.
You see, I happen to be breaking the law.

News and current affairs

Of course, this may not be the breaking point beyond which the debt burden becomes unsustainable.
The Syrians might be tempted to launch an offensive against Israel with the objective of breaking the deadlock over the future of the Golan Heights.
This would not be achieved, however, through an inevitably imperfect sanctions regime, or by America's resort to Cold War logic aimed at breaking Iran's backbone by drawing it into a ruinous arms race.
In addition, government spending was on the rise, labor unions were becoming more militant, policies to control pay kept breaking down, and profit expectations were falling.
The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud's far-right central committee held on Israeli politics.
In turn, Lula adopted orthodox macroeconomic policies and moved to get the budget deficit under control, breaking the panic.
Kim Dae Jung's visit to North Korea provided Kim Jong Il with a historic opportunity to convey the message that North Korea is breaking out of self-imposed isolation.
So Mexico's challenges boil down to liberating the labor movement, breaking up the private monopolies and opening the public monopolies to competition, and lowering entry barriers that restrict access to the political arena.
At Enron, this was accomplished by breaking down tasks into small chunks so that no one person was ultimately responsible for a decision and could claim ignorance when caught.
With Pakistan's economy in a tailspin, and with the jihad culture of so many young Pakistanis undermining the country's international credibility, moderate voices are at long last breaking through.
Breaking the cycle will not be easy, but there is no other way to address many of the most pressing problems confronting China's economy.
Ordinary internet users can also write about events they witness and broadcast their reports online, making the suppression of important breaking news almost impossible.
Tight budgets are straining the agencies that could be driving path-breaking innovation.
CAMBRIDGE: This month the United States Government issued a path-breaking report on the impact of long-term climate change on America's society and environment.
NEW YORK - In the afternoon of July 16 two men appeared to be breaking into a fine house in an expensive area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Once again, protests against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visit to the Yasukuni shrine are breaking out in China as well as South Korea.
But the Republicans' opposition to anything that raises revenue means that this key to breaking the budget stalemate won't be implemented.
In that two year period, Chavez stepped on the gas for his social reforms - education, health care, etc. - and also in regard to breaking down the country's excessive concentrations of wealth.
I wrote those words with the French political scientist Jacques Rupnik in 1991, just as war was breaking out among Yugoslavia's successor states.
LONDON - The budget-cutting austerity program of Britain's new coalition government has been claiming all the headlines, but David Cameron's cabinet is breaking with its Labour predecessor in another key area as well: human rights.
So, without breaking the regular budget cycle, the DPJ will be forced to implement not only the supplementary budget drawn up by the LDP, but will also be stuck with next year's budget, which embodies LDP policies that the DPJ has denounced.
While no one is quite certain how the government managed to estimate prices, given that there is virtually nothing for sale in the shops, most indicators suggest that Zimbabwe does have a good shot at breaking world records for inflation.
The book caught the attention of both the elites and the mass public with its heart-breaking stories of the suffering endured by 900 million farmers and its bold criticism of the government's rural policies.

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