"We were meant to break stereotypes," Rochelle told me.
"It was meant to break the regularity of the building.
"I didn't meant to break both legs, I only meant to break one … I absolutely destroyed him," he said later.
Originally called the Spartan Death Race, it was, in Mr. Desena's words, "meant to break people".
The policy is meant to break the vicious circle between indebted sovereign governments and shaky banks.
The November election was meant to break the stalemate, yet deepened it instead.
After all, if he hadn't meant to break the rule, why would he have set the ring tone on max?
He said the sound from the horn was meant to break us out of our spiritual slumber.
It forged bonds that helped the captives withstand the physical and mental agonies meant to break them.
(2001), who believed that, like Pinocchio, he could someday be a "real boy," was meant to break our hearts.
Then again, if the torture was just meant to break the boy's spirit, it may indeed have worked.
