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Which brings me to the question of secession -- the breaking-off of smaller countries from bigger countries.
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These fear mongering alarmist have, needless to say, completely ignored the fact that even with the breaking-off, the Antarctic ice shelf is still 50% larger than it was at this same time one year ago.
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His heart is set on our marriage — there will be great difficulty, I fear, in reconciling him to the breaking-off of the engagement.
The Moonstone 2003
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Although the System's own very existence depends upon the transition from theoretical to practical philosophy, which requires the breaking-off of Jacobi's chain of ˜conditions™ by something unconditioned, Schelling is concerned to understand how the highest insight must be into reality as a product of the interrelation of both the ˜conscious™ and the ˜unconscious™.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Bowie, Andrew 2001
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On the other hand, the breaking-off of a piece of 150 mm or more will indicate the presence of too high a proportion of clay, necessitating the addition of sand or grog to the soil.
Chapter 5 1984
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The breaking-off of a piece of cylinder of 50 mm or less will indicate that the soil is too sandy for brickmaking.
Chapter 5 1984
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He had carried out his threat with a completeness that had wrecked her life, and although, since the breaking-off of her engagement, he had both written and telephoned, begging her to see him, she had steadfastly refused.
The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler
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Jeanne's mercy, and that an avowal from his lips at this grave moment meant a breaking-off of his marriage with Micheline.
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No; it was apparently a breaking-off by mutual consent, and nobody seemed to have been much upset by it.
Have His Carcase Sayers, Dorothy L. 1932
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No; it was apparently a breaking-off by mutual consent, and nobody seemed to have been much upset by it.
Have His Carcase Sayers, Dorothy L. 1932
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