"break the policy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to go against or violate a set rule or regulation. Example: "If you continue to break the company's policy on internet usage, you may face disciplinary action."
But the appointment of Mr. Clement with an expanded portfolio has won grudging praise from those who say it just might break the policy logjam in Berlin.
"It will be these real on-the-ground issues, the nuts and bolts of how it works, that will make or break the policy," said Jonathan Horowitz, a human rights advocate working with the Open Society Institute.
The lord chief justice, Robert Carswell, ruled that in this one instance the government should break the policy commonly known as NCND (neither confirm nor deny) and reveal any secret service dealings that had taken place with Mrs McConville.
Frydenberg said the national energy guarantee would prolong the operating life of the existing coal fleet – an eventuality which some of the state and territory governments, which will ultimately make or break the policy, profoundly object to.
[C8.] Germany Focuses on Joblessness The decision by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to appoint Wolfgang Clement to be chief of a combined labor and economics ministry has received grudging praise from those who say it might break the policy logjam in Berlin.
However lawyers for the women set about showing how the police had themselves broken the policy in this case.
But, in a bizarre exchange with Labour's Paul Farrelly, he argued that he had not broken the policy, because Facebook's document did not amount to a policy.
Since this report just broke, the policy is likely not yet rolled out to the stores either.
It concluded councillors who had allowed Kiani to work in the city had not actually broken the policy's terms, but their conduct had led to questions over whether he was a "fit and proper" person to drive a taxi.
