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And voila, that picture went viral and broke the censorship and forced mass media to cover it.
Large populations needed to be quarantined in some areas, and then riots broke out.
I imagine most of us here, remember the influenza-A pandemic which broke out in 2009 in Argentina and worldwide.
But one popular reading suggests that despite never having physically carried the traveler, Ekido broke monastic law by mentally "clinging to" the woman.
With very careful design and hundreds of trials, we successfully took out all the virus, broke the record.
And each performer got three minutes to perform and then random audience members would hold up scorecards, and they would end up with a numerical score, and what this meant is, it kind of broke down the barrier between performer and audience and encouraged the kind of connection with the listener.
2013 broke new records: 155 colleagues killed, 171 seriously wounded, 134 abducted.
And when the story broke in January 1998, it broke online.
But then, when I took the first bite, I broke down in tears.
When Tori returned home, she was feeling disheartened, she was broke.
One time, though, I thought climbing a tree would lead to a great hiding spot, but I fell and broke my arm.
The lead defendant was James Cromitie, a broke Walmart employee with a history of mental problems.
He too was broke, and he had no connections to international terrorist groups.
When he went to trial, the central piece of evidence was that he paid for these weapons, when in truth, these transcripts show how the FBI orchestrated someone who was essentially mentally ill and broke to get money to then pay for weapons that they could then charge him in a conspiracy for.
You know why they look like this, and why I broke my back literally to photograph them and present them to you?
They were threatened with deportation, but they broke out of their work compound and they marched from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., to protest labor exploitation.
Shortly after I walked into my new school, a huge fight broke out among the girls.
And on the Friday before, I broke my pelvis in a horseback riding accident.
Spontaneous parties broke out at my house every night for weeks.
Some boys broke me, when I was so young, I did not know what boys can do to break a girl.
I asked for no apology, no retraction, no money, just an acknowledgment that they broke their own rules, and what they did was just wrong.
When my mom's favorite lamp broke, I had to be there when she was trying to find out how and by who, because I had to defend myself, because if you're not, then the finger is pointed at you, and before you know it, you will be grounded.
In 2011, the Libyan revolution broke out, and my family was on the front lines.
Everywhere I go, I see people who are broke but not broken.
Two months later, 16 people broke the four-minute mile.
A few years ago, I broke into my own house.
So, desperate and freezing cold, I found a large rock and I broke through the basement window, cleared out the shards of glass, I crawled through, I found a piece of cardboard and taped it up over the opening, figuring that in the morning, on the way to the airport, I could call my contractor and ask him to fix it.
They think nothing of calling social services to try and mediate one of the many arguments that broke out.
And interestingly, we broke some news with this story.
All hell broke loose.
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