• The six-time Grand Slam winner was not his usual sprightly self and faced break points in the fourth game of the second set.

    BBC: Nadal & Federer through in Paris

  • The Birthday Letters was Mr Hughes's first break with a self-imposed silence on his grief over the break-up of his marriage to Sylvia Plath and her suicide.

    BBC: Hughes wins TS Eliot poetry prize

  • Also, midfielder Danny Williams is sick and Landon Donovan remains on a self-imposed psychological break.

    WSJ: Blindfold Bracket: Indiana Hoosiers Are Leading the Blind Pick

  • In theory, the agreement promises to break the self-reinforcing link between weak governments and weak banks.

    ECONOMIST: The world economy

  • The former Conservative deputy prime minister decided to break his self-imposed silence to take part in a debate on the economy, on 22 March 2012.

    BBC: Heseltine makes Lords maiden speech

  • In recruiting an agent or "asset, " we were asking him to ignore the instinct of self-preservation, to break the laws of his own country to become a traitor.

    WSJ: The Spy Who Turned Me

  • The campaign promise that mattered most to Indians was not swadeshi but suraj, good government, a break with the self-absorbed and corrupt governance with which Indians are familiar.

    ECONOMIST: Knowing your onions in India

  • He described a hypothetical scenario in which self-replicating nanomachines able to break down biological material could run amok, replicating exponentially and turning terrestrial life into mush.

    BBC: Nanomachine "factories" could one day sit on a desktop

  • "Pity the guy, after making the effort to visit, wasn't grown up enough to have a break from being so self centered and make a comment like that, " Steve Landles wrote in the most popular comment on that Facebook post.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • There, Schmidt, the socially challenged and romantically frustrated nerd, and Jenko, the smooth-operating but knuckleheaded jock, try to solve the case while also trying to break out of their confining self-images.

    NEWYORKER: 21 Jump Street

  • "Elevated wealth status seems to make you want even more, and that increased want leads you to bend the rules or break the rules to serve your self-interest, " says Paul Piff, the lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in psychology at the university.

    CNN: Are rich people more unethical?

  • But the revival of New Orleans shows what self-government can accomplish when enough citizens choose to break up the corrupt status quo.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Real Super Bowl Winner

  • The Chechen conflict was never a high-minded fight for self-determination: since the Soviet Union's break-up it has been essentially a battle between Moscow and Chechnya's local leaders for control of the republic's oil revenues.

    ECONOMIST: Victims of a conflict without end | The

  • Domestic abuse is a major driver of the break up of families, the loss of self-sufficiency of victims, the perpetuation of poverty, intergenerational trauma and the rising public costs of housing, health care and legal services.

    FORBES: Domestic Violence is Terrorism With More Victims

  • The break down of long distance trade meant people became increasingly self-sufficient and produced what they needed locally.

    FORBES: What Are Examples of Things in the "Common Knowledge" about History That Historians Almost Universally Consider Incorrect?

  • This is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy: once the Bundesbank starts guarding against a break-up, everybody will have to do the same.

    FORBES: Soros: Euro Crisis Is Lethal, A Break Up Is Possible

  • The ball may disintegrate into a powder, or break in half, or hit up against its earlier self at just such an angle so as to enter the wormhole in just such a way that even more peculiar events occur.

    NEWYORKER: The Region of Unlikeness

  • His supporters say that ordering schoolchildren to sing the national anthem is just an example of a legitimate effort by a newish country to strengthen its sense of self (Slovakia became fully independent only in 1993, after the break-up of Czechoslovakia).

    ECONOMIST: Slovakia's disturbing patriotism

  • However, she again pressed the self-destruct button rather than pushing forward, wasting a chance to break Jankovic before seeing her own serve falter again.

    BBC: Jankovic will play Maria Sharapova for a place in the final

  • His aim is not to belittle the American achievement but to break the habit of treating it as a virtually isolated feat of self-creation.

    ECONOMIST: American history

  • The country badly needs a third party to break the two-party model and begin holding politicians accountable for this self-interest.

    FORBES: A Nation High On Tea Tired Of Two-Party System

  • After a fun self-titled 2002 debut, 2004's Falling Out helped Peter Bjorn and John break out throughout Europe, where its mature pop sensibility and lovely melodies helped place it a step above the bubblegum pop of most other Swedish pop acts.

    NPR: Peter Bjorn and John: 'Young Folks' Make Good

  • As well as hoping to persuade Judge Jackson that a break-up would re-establish competition and have the great merit of being self-policing, Mr Klein is eager to see conduct remedies put in place now, which is within the court's power.

    ECONOMIST: Microsoft: Nasty medicine | The

  • To break the cycle of failure, we must initiate behavior change out of a place of self-acceptance and a desire to enjoy a higher quality of life.

    FORBES: Connect

  • We believe that nothing can replace the importance of empowering people with social and economic stability, which will help them break the cycle of poverty and provide them with the skills necessary to sustain long-term self-sufficiency.

    WHITEHOUSE: A Safe Haven

  • Once these polymers come into contact with water in or on the body, they self assemble into a new polymer structure that is designed to target bacteria membranes based on electrostatic interaction and break through their cell membranes and walls.

    FORBES: IBM Develops Anti-MRSA Nanotechnology

  • One interesting straw in the wind is the new legal opinion that the provision that publishers who don't join a self-regulation system could face tougher damages in the courts, if they're sued for libel, may break human rights law.

    BBC: Week ahead

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