Beijing is already looking for reasons to declare that Taiwan has broken with the notion that there is only one China.
And that, of course, implies breaking with the metaphysical notion that "the market" always knows best.
It is celebrated by most everyone regardless of faith and nationality, and it is grounded in the very notion of breaking with the past rather than extolling it.
The sole concert that broke with that notion, presented at Avery Fisher Hall on Saturday night, included nothing by Mr. Adams; the whole evening was given over to Bruckner's towering Symphony No. 8. Yet here, too, was a substantial novelty: Mr. Welser-Möst chose the original 1887 version of the score, as it existed before Bruckner made substantial changes.
But many liberals say that Mr. Reagan broke with the New Deal notion that government could -- and should -- be an instrument of social equity.
Had Kepler's investigation ended with the establishment of this architectonic principle, he might have continued to search for other sorts of harmonies; but his work would not have broken with the ancient Greek notion of uniform circular planetary motion.
Citizenship laws were somewhat liberalized in 1999, breaking with old German notion that bloodlines define the nation, but not as much as many Turks wanted.
For example, The Human Genome Project was considered by many at the time to be a serious break with the notion that proper biological research must be hypothesis-driven.
Of course, it was modern mostly because it broke with the past, with the Belle Époque notion of a woman corseted and encrusted with embroidery.
Senator Obama stated that he would break with the non-negotiation policy of the Bush White House and authorize diplomatic contacts with Iran, Syria and North Korea, while Senator Clinton ridiculed the notion of diplomacy with rival states as, "irresponsible and frankly naive".
