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Broken in sentence

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So they get used to quite quickly to understanding the rules for social interactions, and are actually quite quick to point out when they’re broken.
Our democracy is broken, our laws don't work anymore, and it's not me saying this, it's our parliament published a report saying this.
Because what the Brexit vote demonstrates is that liberal democracy is broken.
The pointillist movement is that kind of paintings where everything is broken down into dots and pixels.
Instead his broken body lies in pieces, his arm clutching a splintered sword in a signal of utmost defeat.
A broken, defeated husk of a man.
The woman who as a child had skipped with him through fields and broken his heart.
Gaya may be 3,000 to 5,000 years old, no one really knows, but its top has broken off and it's been rotting back now.
The second thing I learned is that when you have one of those bad moments in life, you can either be broken, or you can be broken open.
And we all know people who are broken.
But other people are broken open.
And she was about to move because it was so dangerous, and she looked across the street and she saw two little girls playing in an empty lot with broken bottles, and she turned to her husband and she said, "We're not leaving.
It's time to admit that the playbook that guided businesses and CEOs for the last 40 years is broken.
So he asked me, could he please visit me, and then finally he did, and explained to me that what I did now in my shop was an anachronism, that the industrial revolution had broken out, and that I rather should join the factory.
You know, they made drugs to give the pilots if they were broken up in the process.
Suicidal mass murderers can be despicable, yes, but they're also terribly broken and sad people, and those of us who aren't need to do what we can to make sure nobody goes unloved.
And here we've broken the 500 apartments up into small neighborhoods, and differentiated those neighborhoods.
Adjacent spaces were no longer adjacent moments, so the basic idea of comics was being broken again and again and again and again.
If any of these women, who were mostly from poor backgrounds, fall through the cracks in the already broken system, the bottom of that chasm is a prison, period.
Like me, everyone in there was broken.
Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams with your mouth filled with bitter ash of failure?" (Laughter) Like that, you know.
This isn’t so difficult, but to survive in this new body, the virus must mount a successful infection before it’s caught and broken down by an immune response.
In short, Asia's water tower will be broken, and that will be disastrous for one-fifth of humanity.
Thankfully, the tenuous peace is not broken before they reach the Sich— the center of Cossack military life.
But before long, an argument has broken out.
Now, the market can do a lot for us, but it can't fix the natural system in the ocean we've broken.
When I was there three years ago, the windows were broken and the walls were peeling, but everything was left there as it was.
The attacking infantry advances steadily, their elephants already having broken the defensive line.
We all need to be challenging and changing the parts of our work lives that are broken.
Because when systems are broken, like the ones that we're seeing around the world, it's an opportunity for invention and for innovation.
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