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But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.

On the other hand,there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights or writing on walls.

If it's a loss [where] you're not getting to work, and family relationships are breaking down as a result, then it's too much

That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

So why are American women so far ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?

As for breaking through the glass ceiling in business,American women are well in the lead

Extreme athletes expend lots of energy breaking down and repairing and building muscles.

Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.

But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting.

Code breaking never lags (落后) far behind code making.

One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime.

Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.

Stop people from breaking traffic rules.

They rose in the ranks not by being friendly but by smoking cigarettes, breaking rules and playing jokes on others, among whom I soon found myself.

Breaking down problems into bite-sized chunks and using code to solve them becomes normal.