Sentence examples for breaking the chain from inspiring English sources

"This — breaking the chain — it was like a bomb".

Some (mainly the medical experts) wanted to concentrate on breaking the chain of transmission by stopping new infections.

"There were numerous opportunities for breaking the chain of events leading to the release of this weapon," General Edgington wrote.

The carefully worded note got Mr. Merkle a reprimand for breaking the chain of command at Fort Riley, Kan.

Speedier detection of resistant tuberculosis would allow patients to receive appropriate treatment sooner and benefit the public by breaking the chain of transmission more quickly.

However, it said in this case, his choice to die – combined with the actions of the Belgian doctors – amounted to an intervening cause breaking the chain of causation.

Awareness: More than a third of randomly-selected respondents (36%), reported their (unprompted) perception that people in the community were specifically changing their behaviour by 'breaking the chain' or avoiding concurrent partners (49%).

The next most common change was reported as 'breaking the chain' or avoiding concurrent partners, which was reported by around one in five respondents (22%).

Those with more varied exposure also made statistically significantly more frequent (unprompted) mention of 'breaking the chain' and avoiding concurrent partners (24% vs. 9%) as their specific behavior change.

The topic that day was "Breaking the Chain of Oil Dependency".

• This is an edited extract from 'Breaking the Chain' by Willy Voet which is published this month by Yellow Jersey Press, at £10.