Sentence examples for determined to break up from inspiring English sources

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Carswell said that the party was determined to "break up that cosy little clique called Westminster".

The Republican "Taliban wing," as some Democrats dub the rabid Tea Party militants, was determined to break up any budding Obama-Boehner bromance.

"MARGOT AT THE WEDDING" Nicole Kidman, as an insecure and destructive short-story writer, is determined to break up the wedding of her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to a slacker (Jack Black).

The Government is determined to break up the financial behemoths such as Royal Bank of Scotland, which started life as a regional Scottish bank before gobbling up NatWest and ABN Amro to become "too big to fail".

The scarcity depicted here is the 1984 miners' strike — a brutal yearlong losing battle that the miners of Yorkshire waged against Margaret Thatcher and the Tories, who felt that the pits weren't economically viable, and were determined to break up the all-powerful miners' union.

Companies including British Gas, British Airways, British Telecom, and (less happily) British Rail all moved into the private sector under Conservative governments determined to break up state monopolies.One that got away was the Royal Mail, at first because Margaret Thatcher disliked the idea of picking a fight with an outfit called "Royal" anything.

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Mr. Hamilton said that in bringing up his own three children he was "absolutely determined to break that cycle".

Mill laborers, their families, and their neighbors stood up against the city's entrenched mill aristocracy and the police and militia determined to break their strike.

She was determined to break 3,000.

He seems determined to break the pattern.

I'm determined to break them out.

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