As Hezbollah guerrillas from across the border besieged Qusayr along with Syrian troops, Sunni Muslim rebels and civilians here declared that those ties were broken, perhaps irrevocably, and that their struggle to topple the government had become a sectarian war.
He remarked that the Iranian government was reviewing an American request to have its own official representative at the Swiss embassy in Tehran, which has looked after American interests since diplomatic ties were broken in 1980.
During the Russo-Japanese war of 1905, Russia's Orthodox church was happy to let its small but vigorous outpost in Japan pray for a Japanese victory; no religious ties were broken in the process.
(Voice-only actresses were omitted from the list, and ties were broken by Web popularity).
The building on the Malecon was the U.S. Embassy in Havana until ties were broken in 1961.
The outbreak of the American War of Independence had caused relations between France and Great Britain to deteriorate, and diplomatic ties were broken on 16 March 1778.
Once the ties were broken, the small populations of most of the new nations provided little incentive to entice Spanish American producers to recreate the old trade patterns.
Distance trees of the nucleotide sequence data were established using the following parameters: i) 572 characters, ii) distance measure = LogDet/paralinear, iii) ties were broken at random, iv) 1000 bootstrap replicates were used for statistical analysis.
Where this resulted in tied ranks, ties were broken based on the time of onset of loss.
Remaining ties were broken based on the time at which all samples of a character exhibit decay, then the time of onset of decay.
If multiple genes produced identical bit scores with a given contig/singleton, ties were broken as follows: i) if exactly one of tied genes gave unambiguous best hit with some other contig(s) or singleton(s), this gene was selected, ii) in the remaining cases ties were broken randomly.
