Sentence examples for break a state from inspiring English sources

Before full-blown nationalism, religious passion was the one popular emotion that could bring masses of people into the streets, and Europe's rulers understood that it could be used to make or break a state.

The Redmen need one more perfect season to break a state record for most consecutive victories, 66. "It's been a top-of-the-mountain kind of season," said Smith Center's athletic director, Gregg Hobelmann.

This double pressure either makes or break a state, and it is this tension that is the focus of the special issue.

When the issue was first brought to the council last month, Craven was the only one who voted against it, saying that it would require hotel managers to either kick out their guests or break a state law regulating how long taxes must be paid.

"If I had a business in town, I would resent it if the city passed an ordinance that would require me to either kick out my guests or break a state law" on how long hotel taxes must be paid, Craven said.

"I've never broken a state law," he said.

Rainfall in North Carolina has broken a state record, according to preliminary reports from the National Weather Service.

In 1992, making an early foray into verbal hairsplitting, Bill Clinton said he had "never broken a state law," meaning that England was where he hadn't inhaled.

These days, they might be arrested by the state police -- even if they have not broken a state law -- and handed over to federal authorities for deportation.

Wildfires have burned more than five million acres of land this year, breaking a state record set in 1957, the state Interagency Coordination Center reported.

And there are questions about whether their work for Mr. Stringer broke a state law that prohibits any party from participating in a primary, even its own.