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Once the FSLN was out of power, many of its more democratically minded members
broke
away, creating the Sandinista Renovation Movement.
An artist from Ukraine, recalling the Orange and Maidan revolutions, said: “We
broke
as a nation; we split in two.”
In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt famously
broke
up Standard Oil and other cartels despite a chorus of opposition bemoaning his attack on innovation and entrepreneurship.
During those surreal hours, when members of the House of Lords (usually a pretty sedate place)
broke
a rare filibuster by government loyalists, I ran into my fellow peer Michael Dobbs, the author of House of Cards.
Likewise, in the 1950s and 1960s, it wasn’t the separation of powers that finally
broke
the back of legal racism and repression in the US South.
And the US and France
broke
an impasse over a French tax on tech giants.
By backing tariffs that would reflect the carbon intensity of key imports, they
broke
with the free-market orthodoxy that national environmental policies should not impede global trade liberalization.
By putting assertive, non-aristocratic voices – such as a cook, a sailor, a wife, a lawyer, and a rural parson – at the heart of his work, Chaucer
broke
radically with tradition.
Solidarity was founded in the country’s factories, where workers risked life and limb to participate in strikes that eventually
broke
the will of the communist rulers.
But now foreign governments are again issuing advisories, the shikaras (houseboats) are out of business, and handicraft makers and carpet-weavers, the great artisans of Kashmir, are
broke.
When the weak consensus around globalization
broke
down following the 2008 financial crisis, so, too, did the fragile pluralist framework.
And just as Young predicted, our cohort
broke
the system for subsequent generations, while continuing to extol its virtues.
Looking back a century, Woodrow Wilson
broke
with tradition and sent US forces to fight in Europe, but that might have occurred anyway under another leader (say, Theodore Roosevelt).
In the four decades since the country’s transition from dictatorship, the PP has reconciled the Spanish right to democracy and ensured that it supports the 1978 constitution, which
broke
with 300 years of political tradition by radically decentralizing the Spanish state.
So, when an Ebola epidemic
broke
out last August, those charged with implementing the response – including government officials, international health agencies, and even local community health workers – were met with deep suspicion and even hostility.
Trump
broke
the “norm” of having a pet (usually a dog) in the White House, but that is hardly a matter of fundamental democratic principles.
Trump is reported to have become very upset when now-former special counsel Robert Mueller
broke
his long silence last Wednesday to announce his resignation and say, “If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”(Mueller, highly and properly reluctant to go beyond what his report says, and disinclined to subject himself to a partisan circus, is now resisting bipartisan demands that he appear – at least in public – before a Congressional committee.)
Rather than submit, Abbas
broke
off discussions with the United States – a remarkable decision when one considers that, in the 1980s, the Palestinians were pleading with the Americans to hold direct talks with their leaders.
At the time, these efforts
broke
new ground by recognizing the power of data to address society’s greatest challenges.
The Treaty of Trianon (1920)
broke
up the Austro-Hungarian empire into its “national” parts (including a much-shrunken Hungary), roughly in line with Woodrow Wilson’s principle of “national self-determination,” but left large, unhappy Hungarian minorities in Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
If Trump were to agree to leave US forces in place for another six months, and then another, US voters would ask why he
broke
his campaign promise.
The news
broke
that, in the first seven months of 2020, the United Kingdom’s economy had suffered its largest contraction ever (a drop in national income exceeding 20%).
Following months of heavy rains that began in the summer of 1926, the Mississippi River’s tributaries had reached capacity, and the levees
broke.
Rationalization, financialization, and the outsourcing of labor-intensive operations to newly industrializing countries on the global periphery
broke
the nexus of lifetime employment and social security that had come to characterize developed-world labor markets.
When the news first
broke
that a novel coronavirus had emerged in China, many assumed that the outbreak’s trajectory would resemble that of the last China-born coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Not since the two terrorist attacks that bloodied the French capital in 2015 had I received as many messages of sympathy (and interview requests) as I did after the fire
broke
out.
That left-right dichotomy
broke
down in Italy as long ago as the early 1990s.
He heard Oblonsky's steps and took them for the distant tramp of horses; he heard the crumbling of a bit of hummock on which he stepped and which
broke
off, pulling out the grass by the roots, and he took it for the noise of a snipe on the wing; behind him he heard too a sound of splashing for which he could not account.
'No, allow me!'Levin
broke
in.
'One of the springs
broke
yesterday,' replied the footman.
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