Sentence examples for breaking off relations from inspiring English sources
World War III began not with an exchange of notes breaking off relations or with air raids.
After a quarrel with his father, Christian wrote a letter to his parents breaking off relations with them — a thing that, at his age, he was not in a position to do.
Some Israeli officials say they detect signs of anti-Semitism that disqualify Turkey from mediating any longer between Syria and Israel.Turkish officials respond that they have no intention of breaking off relations with Israel, and think they can still be a useful interlocutor with the Jewish state.
Strong willed, allergic to fashion, even to success, he persisted in going his own way, refusing to sell to prospective buyers he thought did not admire the work properly and breaking off relations with galleries usually after only a show or two.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has responded by effectively breaking off relations with Ukraine earlier this month and by setting up a history commission to counter moves that it sees largely as an attempt to break the countries' historical unity, in other words to break Russia's stranglehold over its self-proclaimed zone of "privileged interests".
"Recalling an ambassador for consultation falls short of breaking off relations outright, but it can lead to that," Tegel, Leff and Tarnopolsky write.
"Previous to the actual cease-fires," he said, "I had kind of broken off relations with the 'tragic subject matter.' " Around the time he turned 50, and both his parents had died, he found an opening inside himself.
Finally, Victorian convention trumped Edwardian indiscretion: her mother intervened to break off relations.
