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Alan Pascoe

He claimed that the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had broken a written undertaking to host the games.

Andrey Savelyev

Savelyev is a grand master at Tai Kwon Do and the brawl had to be broken up by other lawmakers.

Aprisma Management Technologies

Aprisma Management Technologies was created after Cabletron Systems was broken up into 4 smaller pieces, as the business unit to continue the highly successful SPECTRUM network management suite.

Balm of Gilead

The speaker in Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" (1845) professes a belief that the "balm in Gilead" can heal his broken heart, because he laments the death of his love (Lenore).

Bob Enyart

A series of late night phone calls by Enyart to the general manager of the Kenosha, Wisconsin station which carried his program but publicly disagreed with Enyart's views prompted Senator Russ Feingold to call for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation to see if any laws had been broken by the talk show host.

Bob Hitchens

Many of Hitchens records at Miami University were later broken by Travis Prentice, including Hitchens school record of 15 touchdowns in a season.

Broken Springs

Broken Springs had its world premier on June 4, 2010 in Hollywood at the Dances With Films festival on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Conrad Phillips

The pain was so bad that he spent the last episode of The Adventures of William Tell in a wheel chair because he had broken his ankle whilst on location.

Cures for Broken Hearts

Released on 28 August 2000 by Fortune and Glory Records of Mosely, England, Cures For Broken Hearts's lo-fi recordings were mastered at Abbey Road studios by Adam Nunn in June 2000.

Dani Martín

He was also added as an actor in theatrical works and in TV series such as Countdown, Al salir de clase, Policías, en el corazón de la calle, Raquel busca su sitio, Petra Delicado, 7 vidas, Hospital Central, Los hombres de Paco and a small role in the movie Broken Embraces, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Electronic Life

The computer crime entry, for example, is three pages long and contains only four hard facts—specifically, that institutions were then losing $5 billion to $30 billion a year on computer crime, that Citibank processed $30 billion a day in customer transactions using computers, that American banks as a whole were moving $400 billion a year in the U.S., and that the Stanford public key code (not otherwise described) had been broken in 1982.

Ernst vom Rath

Ernst Eduard vom Rath (3 June 1909 – 9 November 1938) was a German diplomat, remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Jewish young man, Herschel Grynszpan, which touched off Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass.

Felix De Smedt

After World War II had broken out in Belgium on May 10, 1940, he accompanied his father to work in Moissac near Toulouse in Southern France, which at that time was still unoccupied.

Garden Museum

On the east side of the tomb is carved the family arms, on the west side a skull and a seven-headed hydra, on the south side broken columns, Corinthian capitals, a pyramid and ruins, and on the north side shells, a crocodile, and a view of some Egyptian buildings.

Glenn Seton Racing

Seton came close to winning the 1995 Tooheys 1000 in the new EF model Falcon, retiring due to a broken engine valve spring whilst in the lead with only eight laps to run.

Glyceride

Vegetable oils and animal fats contain mostly triglycerides, but are broken down by natural enzymes (lipases) into mono and diglycerides and free fatty acids.

Hair theft

A number of inhabitants of Johannesburg and Durban had their dreadlocks stolen by "hair jackers", carrying out "cut and runs" using anything from knives to shards of broken glass.

Haitian Revolution of 1986

Although he said exile had "broken" him, he also said that what he described as the improving fortunes of the National Unity Party had "reinvigorated" him, and he urged readiness among his supporters, without saying whether he intended to return to Haiti.

Hans Guido Mutke

Only after learning about the supersonic flights of Chuck Yeager in 1947 did he attribute these phenomena to the effects of supersonic flight and claim to have broken the sound barrier—years before Yeager did.

Horse-collar tackle

The injuries that season included broken legs for Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, Baltimore Ravens running back Musa Smith, and Tennessee Titans wide out Tyrone Calico.

Incidents at European amusement parks

The news was broken by Children's BBC TV news programme, Newsround.

Jameson cell

Also in 1989, Peko Mines, then a division of North Broken Hill Peko Limited, engaged Professor Jameson to undertake test work in its Warrego concentrator near Tennant Creek in Australia's Northern Territory.

Johann Philipp d'Arco

His second in command Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli was stripped of all honours and his sword was broken over him.

Karnataka Janata Paksha

Despite the fact that the KJP had broken away from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Yeddyurappa announced in September 2013 that it would support the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.

Keeree Kanjanapas

With Wu and a host of foreign players, the team won a total of 9 Hong Kong First Division League titles of which 7 were consecutive, a record yet to be broken.

Ken Vowles

As an Under-19 player, Vowles held the record for the fastest century scored at the Melbourne Cricket Ground until the record was broken by Viv Richards.

King Kong Bundy

After joining The Heenan Family, Bundy feuded extensively with André the Giant, a feud which started during an angle where Bundy interfered in one of André's matches and delivered several splashes, giving the Giant a kayfabe broken sternum.

Kyōko Aizome

About 1986, in one of her more remarkable performances, Aizome had her hymen surgically restored so that it could be broken during the film.

Ludmila's Broken English

Ludmila's Broken English is the second novel by Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre.

Mercat Cross, Edinburgh

On 10 December 1688, a mob, having broken into the private chapel of King James VII at Holyrood Abbey and torn down the woodwork, carried it to the Cross where it was burned along with an effigy of the Pope.

Moisés Campeny

His personal best throw of 75.42 metres, set in 2003, stood as the national record for nine years before being broken by Javier Cienfuegos in 2012.

Mystic River Rugby Club

Richard Tardits (Flanker, 19 Caps) A former U-21 French international rugby player, Tardits was a walk on for the University of Georgia football team where he held the record for most career sacks (29) until it was broken by David Pollack (Cincinnati Bengals) in 2004.

Patrick Callahan

During his career with Seether, Callahan received gold records for the bands successful work on the albums Disclaimer, Disclaimer II, Karma and Effect, The Punisher movie soundtrack, the Daredevil movie soundtrack, and has received a platinum award in Australia for the single, Broken.

Physalin

Physalins are steroidal constituents of Physalis plants which possess an unusual 13,14-seco-16,24-cyclo-steroidal ring skeleton (where the bond that is normally present between the 13 and 14 positions in other steroids is broken while a new bond between positions 16 and 24 is formed; see figure below).

Red Riding

(Yorkshire, Britain's largest county, is broken into three administrative areas known as the RidingsNorth, East, and West.

Rhino Bucket

In April 2006 Rhino Bucket released And Then It Got Ugly and then proceeded to tour with like minded friends Broken Teeth, The Supersuckers and Kix.

Russel Friend

Russel Friend is an American television writer and producer producer who served as an executive producer on the Fox series House, for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2010 for co-writing the episode "Broken".

Sajjan Singh of Ratlam

Engaged to Karan Singh of Kashmir until the engagement was broken off in 1949 by Hari Singh.

Scars on 45

When a broken foot ended lead singer Danny Bemrose’s professional football career as a striker for the Huddersfield Town F.C., he earnestly decided to learn how to play his father’s guitar.

Shah Hetul

The record stood until 2012 when it was broken by Awonder Liang.

Silent Movie

They recruit James Caan despite a disastrous lunch in his broken trailer, and then torture Liza Minnelli at the commissary (fortunately, she already badly wanted to be in the movie).

Steve Jehu

In 2004, Jehu survived a 33-foot fall from a hotel window in Ljubljana, Slovenia by completing a mid-air loop and gymnasts' landing to escape with only a broken ankle.

Stop-and-frisk in New York City

Bratton described George L. Kelling as his "intellectual mentor", and implemented a zero tolerance policy because of his contributions to the development of the “broken windows theory”.

The Cares of a Family Man

Slavoj Žižek emphasizes in his analysis that Odradek "once had some sort of intelligible shape and is now only a broken-down remnant," and as such it should be part of a whole.

Tony Saunders

In his controversial book, José Canseco, a teammate of Saunders in 1999, stated that Saunders' broken arm may have been a result of steroid abuse.

United States military nuclear incident terminology

In the 1994 film True Lies, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character Harry Tasker calls a "Bright Boy Alert" for the impending detonation of a stolen Russian warhead on U.S. soil by terrorists, although this presumably should be termed a "Broken Arrow" event since it involves a nuclear incident unlikely to result in nuclear war.

Walking in London

The path is broken by the lack of crossing of the Thames between Purfleet and Erith.

William Rosen

The Bermuda win made him, at 25 years old, the youngest world champion ever to do so; a record broken by Bobby Levin in 1981 at the age of 23.

Wunder von Lengede

On 24 October 1963, the Lengede-Broistedt mine near Salzgitter was flooded with 500,000 m³ of muddy water after a sedimentation pond had broken its ground and the tunnels between the 60 m and 100 m levels.

Your Love Amazes Me

Andy Childs also recorded it on his 1993 self-titled album and released it as the B-side to his 1993 single "Broken."


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