Sentence examples for are sometimes broken from inspiring English sources

These bans — like laws — are sometimes broken.

Two former leaders in the church, Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, told me that families are sometimes broken apart.

In finds belonging to the Paleolithic Period, pieces of human bodies as well as the bones of other animals are found scattered throughout the archaeological layers and are sometimes broken or charred.

Peaceful protests, especially those supporting the jailed, former deputy prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, are sometimes broken up with tear-gas and water cannon.Last month, not long before a large demonstration marking the anniversary of Mr Anwar's sentencing, Malaysian police rounded up anti-government activists, mostly from the opposition Justice Party.

These crossbands, which usually have black edges, are sometimes broken along the dorsal midline to form a series of staggered halfbands on either side of the body.

The silence after the guns stop is sometimes broken with a strange voice on the phone.

But with "human skyscraper" Pym and the others there's a difficulty: the so-called "subject editor" posts were designed for BBC grandees or journalistic giants from elsewhere, not (although the rule is sometimes broken) everyone-moves-up-one internal promotion.

The rule that at most half the contestants win a medal is sometimes broken if adhering to it causes the number of medals to deviate too much from half the number of contestants.

When the death toll from Syria's increasingly bloody war is discussed, it is sometimes broken down by perpetrator — the regime, ISIS, the rebels — sometimes by method of death – sniper, being crushed by the rubble of one's home after a barrel bomb has been dropped on it, or being killed in a car bomb attack.

This meant that large gene families were sometimes broken up into more than one paralogous group, depending on how many closely related genes they had.

Some communities preferred shaping their noses, which were sometimes broken to achieve.