Sentence examples for land broken from inspiring English sources

It is a military zone sealed off by Russian military checkpoints, a land broken by roaming bands of looters that operated behind the Russian Army and made eerily empty by depopulation caused by flight.

And they had all the land broken down and how they would support an independent government without British subsidies.

In 1587, the chief of the clan, "M'Lauchlane", appears on the roll of names of the landlords in the highlands and the isles, on whose land broken men dwelt.

Families working on the land broke off together to eat in the fields.

This destruction of possibly diseased animals casts a pall, both literally (with the smoke of the funeral pyres) and figuratively over the land, breaking -- perhaps irrevocably -- the agricultural rhythms that are so essential to the identity of the English countryside.

After fighting over oil facilities and disputed land broke out, the United Nations threatened both sides with sanctions if they did not reach a comprehensive agreement.

This achievement for "La La Land" breaks the record for most Golden Globes won by a film.

La La Land broke the record shared by two 1970s movies: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Midnight Express," both of which won six Globes.

Modern studies using DNA analysis, popularized by the geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer and others, increasingly suggest that three-quarters of Britons share a common ancestry with the hunter-gatherers who settled in Atlantic Europe during the Paleolithic era, "after the melting of the ice caps but before the land broke away from the mainland and divided into islands".

However, some DNA research investigating the genetic history of the British Isles suggests that three quarters of contemporary Y-chromosomes of British people including the Cornish originate from hunter-gatherers who settled in Atlantic Europe during the Paleolithic era, "after the melting of the ice caps but before the land broke away from the mainland and divided into islands".

The religious houses were dissolved in the Reformation, and their lands broken up.