Sentence examples for broken off relations from inspiring English sources

"Previous to the actual cease-fires," he said, "I had kind of broken off relations with the 'tragic subject matter.' " Around the time he turned 50, and both his parents had died, he found an opening inside himself.

Long after Berenson and Duveen had broken off relations, Berenson continued to send self-justifying letters about his Titian attribution to other experts, and these letters suggest that he knew that he was arguing for an entire era of connoisseurship, which might well be over.

France has broken off relations with the midget country of Andorra whose political status was established in 1278.

British ministers have not broken off relations despite political violence scarring the country – and regularly visit Bangladesh.

He also said he had broken off relations with the former general manager of his Chinese operation, whose incriminating e-mail messages were cited in Der Spiegel.

In Chicago, Portland, Ore., and Orange County, Calif., hospitals have broken off relations with health plans that refuse to agree to the higher payments the hospitals demand.

Earlier this year he expelled the Israeli ambassador and broke off relations.

Sudan and Eritrea broke off relations in 1994.

Henry VIII wanted to marry Anne Boleyn so broke off relations with the Pope, who opposed it.

Finally, Victorian convention trumped Edwardian indiscretion: her mother intervened to break off relations.

The United States broke off relations with Cuba in 1961, two years after the Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro seized power.