Sentence examples for break that tradition from inspiring English sources

I just want to try to break that tradition".

Tradition demands that an American always head the World Bank, but some say it is time to break that tradition and pick Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's finance minister.

It is to be hoped that this agreement holds and that it marks a departure from the winner-takes-all politics that lie at the root of Haiti's problems.Mr Aristide did not break that tradition.

Olivia Cohen-Cutler, the ABC vice president for broadcast standards and practices, said the word had never been uttered in an ABC series before and she did not intend to break that tradition.

The smaller parties hope they can break that tradition and persuade people that this time, for once, they really could make a difference.

Femen love putting on a show, and the baptism of their new Paris squat didn't break that tradition.

It is common for the two governors to sign off on each other's capital projects as a courtesy, unless one or the other breaks that tradition, which has in the past led to one governor or another holding a project hostage.

4 p.m. 8) SNACK TIME So many Swiss Germans stop what they're doing at 4 p.m. for a snack break that the tradition even has a name: z'vieri, not to be confused with z'nüni, the 9 a.m.

Secrecy is a hallowed right, and breaking down that tradition is proving difficult.

He is breaking that tradition tonight.

Modernists merely paid negative homage by breaking that tradition.