But now, at long last, the spell cast by arms control has been broken.
It is also a good sign that the short-term downtrend (line c) has been broken.
The Zarnowitz rule, according to which deep recessions are followed by steep recoveries, has been broken.
The record for the mile has been broken 18 times since that rainy day in Oxford.
The uptrend in the relative performance that goes back to the December low, line h, has been broken.
The automatic association of Democrats with profligacy has been broken, and it may not re-emerge for a while.
Her record subsequently has been broken by other women, but she doesn't mind.
Jacques Cailloux from RBS said the taboo of a euro collapse has been broken, inflicting deep and lasting damage.
That dream has been broken for youths and adults all over the country.
Although independents still have a big presence on the council, Mr Jones said: "I think their power has been broken".
The curriculum has been broken up into 90-minute, biweekly teaching nuggets on subjects such as setting goals and ensuring accountability.
However, the political and legal decision on whether a ceasefire has been broken or not will rest with Dr Reid.
"Sadly the chain has been broken now for the Cherry Tree, there are only nine left and I'm devastated, " he said.
My Good Hostess badge which I proudly earned has been replaced with badges that reflect that the glass ceiling has been broken.
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock has been broken for the past week or so.
The recent rising bottom formed a large wedge, and the short declining topsline and a smaller wedge within a wedge has been broken.
"It now seems unlikely that the cycle has been broken, " Auditor General Huw Vaughan Thomas says in evidence to the assembly's public accounts committee.
But for Arsenal fans there will be sadness that the last link with the famous back five of the George Graham era has been broken.
But, now that the link with the free movement of labour has been broken, the dispute is much less likely to get out of hand.
During this manic year in the markets, we have gotten a significant move anytime a trend has been broken and this time around has been no different.
Chart Analysis: The weekly chart of the T-Bond futures shows that the uptrend from the 2011 lows, line a, has been broken over the past three weeks.
That chain has been broken by MF (it really broke back in 2008 with Lehman, Bear Stearns, and AIG, but trillions of dollars temporarily delayed its continuing collapse).
Madrid (CNN) -- A gang that used "ransomware" to infect and paralyze millions of computers in 30 nations has been broken up, the European police agency said Wednesday.
Yukos Oil has been broken up and sold to Russian state owned energy companies, with the bulk of those assets acquired at a discount by Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia.
Abberline is an integral part of the Ripper story, so he's included as a supporting character, portrayed "beautifully" by Clive Russell as a man that has been broken by something, Warlow said.
Almost every single rule regarding the Euro and indeed the strictures of the European Central Bank (ECB) has been broken in two as anything possible was done to prevent Greece then Ireland having to exit the Euro.
What does it mean to say that the power of corporate media has been broken by independent bloggers when, increasingly, those corporations are crowd sourcing content from bloggers for little or (as is mostly the case) nothing?
He comes to Gotham because the mob there has been broken by Batman, so Penguin sees this as a chance for a new kind of mobster to take control of the underworld in the city as a major arms dealer.
Complacency has been broken in European markets over the past few days, as yields on benchmark 10-year bonds in Spain and Italy shot up, with the former currently standing above the psychologically important 5% mark, and the latter closing in.
"As each year passes and we hear that a warming record has been broken, or nearly broken again, it provides further evidence that unfortunately we are not just seeing a natural cycle of global warming, and that instead humans are having an effect on the climate, " said Dr Huntingford, who works with climate models to understand the implications of increased levels of greenhouse gases.
BBC: 2011 is UK's second warmest year on record - Met Office
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