Sentence examples for unearned breaks from inspiring English sources

Your oldest will be less likely to lean on her good looks (though inevitably some unearned breaks will come her way).

Washington was the beneficiary of an unearned and tragic break.

Eric Chavez drove home an unearned run to break a fifth-inning tie as the A's followed a 10-0 road trip by moving within one victory of the franchise-record 17-game streak by the 1931 Philadelphia A's.

President George W. Bush was most aggressive about pushing such tax changes, but breaks for unearned income were also passed and extended under both the Clinton and Obama administrations.

If we consider that today's multinational corporations earn billions of dollars a year through licensing products – effectively collecting rent – which in many cases were first produced decades ago, then we realise just how far we have to go before the social bonds of inherited wealth and unearned privilege are finally broken.

This break for unearned income is a tremendous boon for the wealthiest households, who hold much of their assets in money-making passive investments.

Given how many Republicans have skipped town halls this year to avoid confrontations with protesters, and all the other stalled agenda items the GOP could have moved on this month, some might call this summer break particularly unearned and unwarranted.

Zito (6-10) walked five batters but gave up only one run, on Yunel Escobar's second-inning homer, and San Francisco scored four unearned runs in the eighth to break a 1-1 tie.

Will we allow the weight of unearned gains and undeserved losses to break society, or will we shape outcomes to deliver on the promise that opening and connecting with one another is in all our best interests?

"It's sure fun watching Boog play out there," Altobelli said after the Pirates erased a 2-0 deficit with two runs of their own in the first inning, then broke the deadlock with three unearned runs in the seventh.

The Angels caught two huge breaks in the top of the 12th inning Saturday, scoring an unearned run without the benefit of a hit to scratch out a 4-3 victoverover the Minnesota Twins in the first game of a day-night doubleheader in Target Field.