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When the war broke out, the rebel leader demanded the fund be given to him, my father insisted it was not in his possession, and he was killed because of his refusal to release the fund.
So they broke that poll.
The fine broke the culture of the daycare center.
And for the very first time in my scientific career, I broke scientific protocol, which is that you take the data and publish them in scientific journals and then begin to talk about them.
These guys are New World primates, which means they broke off from the human branch about 35 million years ago.
One consequence of that, by the way, is that the phone never broke.
She never broke down.
And I kind of broke the mold with Sherman.
Ten years ago was a seminal trip, where we explored that big iceberg, B-15, the largest iceberg in history, that broke off the Ross Ice Shelf.
He broke up with her.
One of the most common tendencies we have when our heart is broken is to idealize the person who broke it.
This miniseries/movie was so terrible at times that I nearly broke down and turned it off.
Instead, I found the film clichéd, and broke little, if any new ground to the vampire genre.
Unfortunately he still can't hold down a job so soon enough he's broke.
On the other hand, he is faced with being dead broke, but on the side of his community, protesting the drilling.
The only woman who shows any "balls" (unfortunate pun regretted) is made to look, talk, and seem like a guy, the other 2 women are portrayed either as sexual objects with one thing on their mind- sex / being sexy, with sex as their only attribute and skill (Iris) - or as freaked out pretty little princesses who's neurosis negates any strength and professional authority they had before all hell broke lose (Doc).
Her broke, ailing father shows up for the first time in years and she boots him out.
I broke my own rule buying this movie from the $5.88 bin at Walmart.
It makes me a little sad that he went broke because of this movie, but I've never liked him as an actor and he really should have known better.
Harry asks Jackson not to hit him because he broke his jaw 'last time'.
I mean who is gonna believe that they captured the chupacabra and it broke loose on a cruise liner.
Possibly the worst scene came early in the movie when he broke into a spontaneous song and dance number centered around a piano and some conveniently placed employees.
The character named "Steve" irked me since he tries to pick fights w/ people off the street (he shoulda been mugged and raped) and looks bad when he broke that guy's neck towards the end (want me to show you how to do it?)
But my biggest problem with the movie was that it was loaded with drinking references, not to mention that the cows/bulls actually hot wired and stole a car, then drank and drive, broke into a boy's house to push him out of bed (he deserved it though), then ran away from the cops, whom the writers of the movie made look like terrible people.
I feel that Fox loved that they broke barriers with the then-edgy "Married with Children", but now it's just getting ridiculous.
The ending seemed like there was supposed to be more, but they ran over their apparent $500.00 budget and were like "Oh, crap...we are broke..end it now...quick..roll credits!"
Maybe the coach broke out of prison and finished her off...at least I hope so.
Especially for Warner Brothers, a studio which broke new effects grounds with shows like BABYLON 5 in 1993.
Being a completely broke film buff with a house to furnish, I'm a big fan of IKEA.
I was unimpressed with the film as it never broke new ground or went anywhere but where you expected it to.
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