But the suggestion that Texas might break away has only recently become a common plotline.
Song proposes that Ad Agency Planners will break away and form their own niche practices.
Pietroluongo said any artist is one hit away from that big break or even a comeback.
In pressing its demands for more autonomy, Inkatha has even hinted that KwaZulu-Natal might break away from the republic.
Apart from the fact that resource-rich Aceh contributes a large share of the government's revenues, many Indonesians believe that allowing it the opportunity to break away would encourage other restless provinces, setting off the Balkanisation of the country.
They argue, therefore, that people with power that they think is justified break rules not only because they can get away with it, but also because they feel at some intuitive level that they are entitled to take what they want.
"Cancer can be a daunting thing to think about and I understand that some men shy away from talking about it but I hope that through football we can break through these barriers, " she said.
In another one of those bad ideas that never seem to go away, Congress may be about to grant a huge tax break to multinational companies that have stashed earnings in their foreign subsidiaries.
But the winds also drive away the mosquitoes, and break through that solid wall of summer heat.
So they chose cities and regencies instead, because they reckoned that these would not be large enough to break away.
The routine becomes a daily blur, compelling a president to want to break away and seek a larger vision, something that becomes his stamp, his legacy.
He had a putback layup and a fast-break dunk during a 17-3 spurt that put the game away.
In return for its half-hearted blockade around Abkhazia, which tried to break away from Georgia in 1993, Russia is demanding that Georgia seal its own border with Chechnya.
The exchanges have agreed to break trades on nearly 300 stocks that traded more than 60% away from their last price during the volatile 20 minutes that caused most of the damage Thursday.
For Barbie Snodgrass, who has a modest amount of stock in a retirement plan, the meltdown has turned this election into a make-or-break one, tipping her away from McCain without convincing her that she can trust Obama.
They claim that such disclosures would give away sensitive commercial information or break confidentiality clauses with government partners.
You're saying that we're responsible for giving Peter the courage to break away from Bjorn and John and to play on his own.
Once you've seen the demo video after the break, you'd probably agree that Kumparak's only one sonic screwdriver away from becoming an honorary Time Lord.
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Kinnear's character is also in conflict as he strives to break away from conformity, although his character has been changed significantly from that in the Women in Love novel.
The plumber would consume the better part of the morning driving to each job site to see that each employee takes their break, leaves the area of work, and stays away from the area of work for not less than the statutory duration of the break.
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That is because, in Mr Norquist's book, taking away a tax break has an iniquitous corollary.
Florida added a point to their lead by the break, and then the SEC regular-season champions put the game away with the big run that started when Murphy buried a 3-pointer from the right corner right in front of the Gators bench with 12:26 left.
You don't get away with playing that way against guys that can serve well, that are difficult to break and play very aggressive on the return.
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However, there is enough at stake in the battle over the fiscal cliff that the GOP should take a break from wallowing in the mire long enough to demand that the job of scoring the competing tax plans be taken away from the anti-growth, static-scoring CBO, and turned over to the free market.
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But this does not mean that peace is about to break out in the southern Balkans or that the danger of a conflict spreading through Albania and Macedonia has gone away.
It may be that only a real massive movement away from the existing parties and the corrupt system they have created can break the destructive cycle in which Washington -- and the American people -- are trapped.
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