Sentence examples for breaking the case from inspiring English sources

Still, F.B.I. officials said they did not appear close to breaking the case.

Robert Stewart, the patrolman who had so much to do with breaking the case, has by now been promoted to detective and is attached to a Manhattan precinct.

And on Thursday the F.B.I. and the local authorities, aided by a description provided by the young man who had lost his lower legs, were on the verge of breaking the case, when the killers decided to come out shooting.

American officials note that Colonel Aviles's information was not the key to breaking the case, which is widely viewed as a test of efforts to end the military's traditional immunity from prosecution for human rights abuses.

Mr. Kutler contends that once the Watergate burglars were arrested, the men entrusted with uncovering the wrongdoing - notably the assistant United States attorney Earl J. Silbert and his staff - did their jobs well and deserve most of the credit for breaking the case.

Everyone is so earnest about breaking the case.

Lichtenstein took it upon herself to break the case.

What finally did break the case was the force of truth.

Eventually, he came upon the evidence that he knew would break the case open.

"You could have broke the case right then and there," he said.

"It was basically kids in the neighborhood coming forward" that broke the case, Officer Mottola said.