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How to use the word Broken in a Sentence? Page #31

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We are starting to see the emergence of rugby as a global sport, if you're a rugby player with two 'cauliflower' (damaged) ears and a broken nose, then that is an issue. But rugby is going to be opened up to new audiences and that will create commercial opportunities.

Professor Chadwick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You've got a tried and tested product there that cuts across all ages, classes and genders who will subscribe to watch football, so it's a no-risk deal, in rugby it's different because the sport doesn't have the cross-cultural or cross-demographic appeal that football does. I still don't think rugby has broken out of its heartlands.

Simon Chadwick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to combat institutional racism from top to bottom, and we need major major reforms in a broken criminal justice system in which we have more people in jail than China, i intend to tackle that issue, to make sure our people have education and jobs rather than jail cells.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are no words to describe how it feels when you are wrongly convicted and sitting in a cold cell, infested with insects, nurturing a broken shoulder, sitting in that prison cell, it was difficult not to feel betrayed and abandoned by Prime Minister Harper.

Egyptian Baher Mohamed

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Broken people cannot identify when their children are on the verge of snapping.

Kitty Bradshaw

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I know Dr Winterkorn personally. I know these guys personally. There is no way they would have allowed this to continue if they had known that U.S. laws were being broken.

Marc Trahan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That could have been me out there. Anybody in that union hall could have been out there, my heart is broken. I can only imagine what those guys were going through. You don't sign up to die like that.

Terrence Meadows

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market wants to see the economic conditions normalize. It's starting to think that something is broken here and it makes them uncomfortable.

Jonathan Golub

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Look at sectors that have been completely unhinged. Emerging markets have been completely unhinged, they’re broken in terms of markets.

Mohamed El-Erian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Look at sectors that have been completely unhinged. Emerging markets have been completely unhinged, they're broken in terms of markets.

Mohamed El-Erian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our hearts are broken to learn of the death of Deputy Bill Myers. Florida's law enforcement officers risk their lives daily to protect others, and any act of violence against these brave heroes is shameful and cowardly. My wife, Ann, and I send our sincerest condolences to Deputy Myers' family and brothers and sisters in Florida's law enforcement community.

Sheriff Larry Ashley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am not surprised the dishonest, irrelevant and totally failing Club for Growth has resorted to attacking the definitive front runner, especially after I refused to contribute to their pathetic group. We will be releasing my current tax proposal, which is a major decrease in taxes, in the next week and will continue to expose the two faced hypocrisy of the Club for Growth and the problems groups like this perpetuate within a broken Washington, D.C..

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public.

Martin Winterkorn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public, volkswagen has ordered an external investigation of this matter.

Martin Winterkorn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I saw my husband when they put me on a stretcher to take me to hospital, he was very badly wounded. He had a broken arm, like me. He had many wounds on his back, his waist, his whole spine, his legs.

Susana Calderon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I saw my husband when they put me on a stretcher to take me to hospital, i saw he was very badly wounded. He had a broken arm, like me. He had many wounds on his back, his waist, his whole spine, his legs.

Susana Calderon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're just stuck in this negative vortex, where people don't like China...and now it's a 'broken IPO', which has added even more insult to injury, the stock is cheap, it's very cheap.

Chi Tsang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The UN human rights chief has rightly concluded that Sri Lanka's domestic courts are ill-equipped to prosecute the heinous international crimes exposed by the UN investigation, sri Lankan torture survivors in treatment with us are adamant that they cannot trust a purely domestic process and will take comfort from the High Commissioner's warning that there must not be a replay of past broken promises.

Sonya Sceats

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sri Lankan torture survivors in treatment with us are adamant that they cannot trust a purely domestic process and will take comfort from the High Commissioner's warning that there must not be a replay of past broken promises, any process that fails to win the confidence of survivors, including from the Tamil minority, is doomed to fail and may set back the common cause of reconciliation.

Sonya Sceats

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Her friend suffered a broken bone in her face. Who must be killed to beat ISIS ? Brutal beating.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Her friend suffered a broken bone in her face. Brutal beating.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He's done things in 18 months that weren't done in the past 40 years. He's broken taboos - on jobs, banks, the justice system, for foreign investors like us, 50 percent of the decision to invest money in a country depends on the credibility of its leaders. There's faith he can take Italy out of the doldrums.

Stefano Venturi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You know a broken clock is right once a day, the bottom line is I'm still here, I'm still workin'. We need to be talking about solutions and not just rhetoric out there.

Rick Perry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our children face a very harsh future, unsustainable debt. Future generations will suffer, washington is broken. The political class broke it. Please join me.

Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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