THE Chinese yuan has picked up the pace over the past couple of months, rising at an annual rate of almost 7% against the American dollar since September—four times as fast as over the previous 14 months since it broke its link with the dollar.
The Progress group, established by supporters of Blair, was famously the subject of a challenge by some trade union leaders who tried to break its link with Labour.
The leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the most powerful jihadi groups in Syria, has announced that the group is breaking its link with al-Qaida and changing its name, in an apparent attempt to be removed from the US list of proscribed terror groups.
The Communications Workers Union says it will break its links and withdraw the £1m a year it gives to an already virtually bankrupt party if Labour presses ahead with plans to part-privatise Royal Mail.
Membership of the RMT increased sharply under his 13-year leadership, during which the union broke its links with Labour, in 2004.
The dynasty these people produced never broke its links with the people, and rare was the Arsacid dynastic sovereign who did not turn to his people in time of danger.
"What must be done is to use the engagement of the United States in Colombia now to force the army to break its links to these paramilitary groups," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, the executive director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.
In April this year, Mr McCluskey warned Labour leader Ed Miliband - who introduced the Labour-trade union reforms - that Unite could break its links with Labour if the party lost the next election.
At the People's Bank of China, the central bank, a consensus was also emerging in late 2004: China should break its tight link to the dollar, which would make its exports more expensive.
Later in the year, the government changed monetary policy to break its formal link to the American dollar for a new policy that has led to a roughly 3percentt rise in the value of the Chinese renminbi.
Canada broke its diplomatic links to Iran in September over several issues, including Iran's disputed nuclear program, its hostility toward Israel and what Canada labeled Iranian support for terrorist groups.
