Sentence examples for violent break from inspiring English sources

We would make a violent break with history if we construed the Act of 1862 to give such a bounty.

But as the child of two violinists in the orchestra, he didn't seem a violent break with the past.

Contemporaries and later generations alike shared the feeling that Peter's reign had been revolutionary a radical and violent break with the centuries-old traditions of Muscovy.

An Indonesian court sentenced a notorious militia leader today to 10 years in prison, the minimum penalty, for crimes committed during East Timor's violent break from Indonesia.

A box found near the fountain held leaflets signed "Ftm Futurist Action 2007," a reference to Futurism, the early 20th-century art movement that advocated a violent break with the past.

That said, it is important to remember that the double occupation of Lithuania, by the Soviets and then by the Germans, was an exceedingly violent break with the previous history of Vilnius and Lithuania.

Karadzic, a former psychologist and poet, told judges he was a "physician and literary man" who was a reluctant player in the violent break-up of Yugoslavia.

But he should not judge the likelihood of a successful application, speak on behalf of Spain, or suggest that peaceful referendums in western Europe are equivalent to the violent break-up of a Balkan country.

(In Pentagon exercises, American war-gamers have mapped out a scenario in which Taliban-like extremists gain control of Pakistan's atomic arsenal during a violent break-up of the country).

The anger was galvanised by the violent break-up of a sit-in protest in Independence Square early on Saturday, when several hundred riot police dispersed the 1,000-strong 1,000-strongnly students, crowdng a number of casualties.

A suspect in a string of violent break-ins on the Upper West Side was charged yesterday with three counts of attempted murder and 11 other felonies, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.