JACK MENZ Westport, Conn., Nov. 10, 2012 To the Editor: David H. Petraeus gave in to impulse, ego, a personal need or whatever drives a man or woman to break a vow.
Paying for the measures will require the government to break a vow by Mr. Ayrault in September that there would be no increase in sales taxes during Mr. Hollande's five-year term.
After crude oil prices reached $50 a barrel on Tuesday and held at that price yesterday, Senator John Kerry accused President Bush of breaking a vow that oil from Iraq would lower oil prices to $28 a barrel.
Mr. Trippi — who left Mr. Dean's collapsing campaign in a storm of recriminations — has returned for an unexpected Round 2 at the urging of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, breaking a vow Mr. Trippi says he made to himself not to return to presidential politics.
Still, the Democratic contest has upended local and even national politics, with most of the establishment siding with Mr. Lautenberg — not necessarily because they are avid supporters, but because they are angry at Mr. Andrews for breaking a vow not to run.
Florian, the young man not quite of the big house, but big enough, whose eccentric parents are dead, will break a vow and leave - and more extraordinarily, will achieve the leavetaking, with his failed attempts at painting and photography behind him, but with some hope for the fragments of writing in his notebook before him.
He'll break a vow, for instance---something his father would never have done.
For married couples, infidelity is literally breaking a vow to be faithful "for better or for worse".
She had to apply for welfare, breaking a lifetime vow to never rely on public assistance.
