For its latest summer season, NTT DoCoMo gave top billing to smartphones from Sony and Samsung, breaking its tendency to give all manufacturers equal play to keep them competing.
From Kanazawa in Japan to Miss Sargfabrik in Vienna, Serenbe is part of a new wave of sustainable communities around the world, purpose-built with the aim of tackling loneliness and breaking the tendency to segregate older people.
However, when you consider that "fissiparous" is itself a tendency to break apart, "fissiparous tendencies" would actually mean "tendencies to have a tendency to break apart" which is somewhat less sinister.
It is not as if they refuse to study film or break down tendencies at this stage, but the season has been a steady work in progress.
The sense of urgency conveyed by the sign is largely affected by sensory inputs such as red flashing lights or other features which cause the signs to break the tendencies of normalcy.
To the Yankees, nothing matters more now than breaking down the tendencies of Casey Blake and Travis Hafner, Carmona and Sabathia, and the rest of the Indians.
By facilitating the formation of peer networks between transfer students, other (non-transfer) students, and CLIMB alumni, CLIMB was able to break the tendency toward isolationism.
A new book warns that the welfare system is having the unintended consequence of boosting the number of children born into workless households where they are in turn at risk of developing "aggressive, antisocial and rule-breaking tendencies" which keep them out of the jobs market.
It also has the added benefit of breaking up the tendency for employees to silo news and information sources, in order to keep what might be perceived as a competitive advantage away from their peers.
I let my most animalistic of tendencies break free and when the storm is over I see myself clearly.
Stalin also regarded the Ukrainian peasantry as the cradle for nationalist tendencies aimed at breaking Ukraine away from the Soviet Union.
