Sentence examples for broken the idea from inspiring English sources

They wrote that if "a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken". The idea is that if a community tolerates a proliferation of small offenses — fare-dodging, vandalism, public urination — criminals will feel emboldened to commit more serious crimes like robbery and even murder.

Once I did, I started to realize how broken the idea of American meritocracy was.

"He broke the idea of the fixed viewpoint".

But we have always found it helpful to break the idea into its component parts.

"It is designed to break the idea that the bank is austere and closed for the young," explains BNP Paribas.

It's very important to break the idea of the wall down because otherwise people think this is a foreign entity.

Collective responsibility is a thorny issue and it takes a different level of management maturity to break the idea that if there isn't one person responsible, then no one is responsible.

If you break the idea of starting something new down into extremely small steps, the risk diminishes and so should the fear.

Rather than jumping on the bandwagon for one potentially big product, they break the idea down into smaller pieces for testing.

Rather than jumping on the bandwagon for one potentially big idea, they break the idea down into smaller pieces for testing and take the time to make sure that key stakeholders are working in unison.

Claire Huxtable broke barriers, but in 2015, there's a new one to break: the idea that the only black characters worth empathizing with onscreen are ones with so-called perfect backgrounds. .