Sentence examples similar to breaking agreement from inspiring English sources

It warned that the Syrian government had a long record of breaking agreements and urged the UN Security Council to pass a resolution including the threat of Chapter VII measures.

After one embarrassment on top of another, Burger King backed down last month and reached a ground-breaking agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, representing mostly seasonal farmworkers from Mexico, Central America and Haiti.

Discovery has strengthened its presence in key markets through numerous transactions including the acquisition of Eurosport, which led to the ground-breaking agreement with the International Olympic Committee making Discovery and Eurosport the home of the Olympic Games across Europe beginning in 2017.

C. A. Clarke: Bank bonus broke agreement (bar gain; 2 defs.; broke vb).

In his first extended interview since the news broke of a ground-breaking agreement between long-time rival local authorities in Birmingham and the Black Country to set up a combined authority, Birmingham's council leader Sir Albert Bore had an overture of his own.

Negotiate a lease-break agreement.

He broke agreements that he had made with Flamsteed.

Saleh has previously broken agreements after just two days, so what would he do if given a month?

The former Soviet president, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, has supported Mr. Krentz, saying his prosecution broke agreements that ended the cold war.

The question is, If individuals act in accord with their preferences, why don't they break agreements when these agreements no longer suit them?

Another, more specific issue is in models of weakly institutionalized environments in which the absence of a higher authority leads people to break agreements and so create instability.