Word Finder - breaches

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A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence

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• break
• fissure
• rupture

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A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.

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A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves

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A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.

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• surf
• surge

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A breaking out upon; an assault.

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A bruise; a wound.

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A hernia; a rupture.

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A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment

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A difference in opinions, social class etc.

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The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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To make a breach in.

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They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.

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To violate or break.

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(of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.

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(of a whale) To leap out of the water.

In the past forty-eight hours, there had been fifty perimeter breaches, all from the west wall.

In November 2003, the board strongly deplored Iran's failures and breaches of its safeguards obligations.

There are, however, among these border-ranges several breaches of continuity - broad depressions or trenches leading from Lake Balkash and Lake Zaisan to the upper parts of the plateau.

This position follows logically from the theory of English law that all offences are breaches of the king's peace.

But Amy, scarcely by her own fault, is drawn into certain breaches of definite moral laws which Defoe did understand, and she is therefore condemned, with hardly a word of pity, to a miserable end.

His weak points were his wanton breaches of good faith, his extravagance, his frivolity and his self-indulgence.

His sudden return, far from widening the breaches between the allies, had fused them indissolubly together, and the four powers bound themselves to put 150,000 men apiece under arms and to maintain them in the field until Napoleon had been utterly crushed.

After the conclusion of the Civil War in America very large claims were preferred against Great Britain for alleged breaches of her duty as a neutral power; and after long negotiations, England and the United States agreed to arbitration.

The holiness of Israel centres in the sanctuary, and round the sanctuary stand the priests, who alone can approach the most holy things without profanation, and who are the guardians of Israel's sanctity, partly by protecting the one meeting-place of God and man from profane contact, and partly as the mediators of the continual atoning rites by which breaches of holiness are expiated.

Indeed, it is not too much to say that, until the days of Sobieski, the Cossacks were invariably the chief cause of the breaches between the Porte and the Republic. We have seen how carefully the Jagiellos avoided participating in any of the crusades directed by the Holy See against the arch-enemies of the Cross.

Of all generals Wellington was the last to waste a single trained man, and the sight of the breaches of Badajoz after the storm for a moment unnerved even his iron sternness.

But Holland's chief protection against inundation is its long line of sand dunes, in which only two real breaches have been effected during the centuries of erosion.

It is situated at the mouth of a small stream, the Dour, whose valley here breaches the high chalk cliffs which fringe the coast on either hand.

At this time prisons were primarily places of detention, not of punishment, peopled by accused persons, still innocent in the eyes of the law, and debtors guilty only of breaches of the financial rules of a commercial country, framed chiefly in the interest of the creditor.

This permission to be at large may easily be forfeited by fresh breaches of;the law.

Thus it assumed a jurisdiction, partly concurrent with that of the lord, which it further extended to breaches of the peace.

Its real object is to attack such professedly Catholic governments as have fallen in with modern ideas - as for instance, by allowing freedom of worship to their Protestant subjects, or by refusing to punish brawling in Catholic churches more severely than other breaches of the peace.

To secure obedience to the law is a first and principal duty; to deal with breaches of the rules made by authority, to detect, pursue and arrest offenders.

Under the Public Worship Regulation Act of 1874, which gave to churchwardens and aggrieved parishioners the right to institute proceedings against the clergy for breaches of the law in the conduct of divine service, a discretionary right was reserved to the bishop to stay proceedings.

The second was in respect of breaches of neutrality in allowing the "Alabama," the "Florida" (originally the "Oreto"), the "Shenandoah" and other Confederate vessels to be built and equipped on British territory.

In the south-east of England, the North and South Downs are both well-defined ranges, but are characterized by a number of breaches through which rivers penetrate, on the one hand to the Thames or the North Sea and on the other to the English Channel.

On the 14th of September, after three days of artillery preparation, the assault was delivered, under Nicholson's leadership. Two practicable breaches had been made by the siege guns, and a party of engineers under Home and Salkeld blew in the Kashmir gate.

But it should be noted that the primary reference of "binding and loosing" is, according to rabbinical usage, rather to the laying down of rules than to condoning breaches of them; and nothing is said to confine the words "Whose soever sins ye forgive" to the offences of Christians already baptized, and they should be held to include preaching the Gospel and baptizing converts as well as the administration of internal discipline.

This part of Henrys policy is connected with the name of his two extortionate fiscal judges Empson and Dudley, who turned law and justice into rapine by their minute inquisition into all technical breaches of legality, and the nice fashion in which they adapted the fine to the wealth of the misdemeanant, without any reference to his moral guilt or any regard for extenuating circumstances.

It breaches the mountains in a fine valley; for this island consists practically of one long range, whereas the main valleys and ranges separating them in Viti Levu radiate for the most part from a common centre.

He argues that "the world-order, being in process as a moral order, permits breaches everywhere into which Satan can obtain entrance" (pp. 99, 102).

The town is surrounded by a wall with five towers; entrance now is obtained through breaches in the wall, but formerly it was accessible only by means of tunnels cut in the rocky substratum.

The lord of the manor still holds the ancient court-leet and court-baron halfyearly in May and November, in which cognizance is taken of breaches of agreement among the tenants, especially concerning the repair of roads and cultivation of lands.

This depression is occupied in great part by a series of lakes, some of these filling transversal breaches in the range, whilst others are remains of glacial reservoirs, bordered by morainic dams, extending as far as the eastern tableland and corresponding in these cases with transversal depressions which reach the Atlantic Ocean.

The consequences of security breaches can be disastrous in terms of the public profile and the operation of your business.

One way of responding to breaches of Compact Plus commitments would be through publishing the adjudication of the Compact Champion.

A statement released by the Lebanese Army Command announced that five breaches of Lebanese airspace were recorded Tuesday night.

The Pensions Act 2004 also imposes a statutory obligation on ' whistleblowers ' to report suspected breaches of the legislation to the regulator.

For wrongful dismissal or other breaches of contract, up to £ 25,000 can be awarded.

However, not all breaches will render evidence inadmissible.

The charge was one of publishing seditious libel and inciting to commit breaches of the incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797.

Up to the beginning of 2002 I had been fairly lax in pursuing breaches of copyright - simply requesting the removal of the data.

High speed explosive motorboats were to blast breaches in the protective booms and nets allowing two SLCs to penetrate the harbor.

United Biscuits pleaded guilty to two breaches of health safety regulations at a previous hearing.

One in eight breaches led to a custodial remand.

Appearing in court on Tuesday morning, Howley admitted the breaches and was refused bail by honorary sheriff Bill Wright.

In addition, SOX requires employees and professional advisors to disclose potential wrongdoing or breaches of fiduciary duty to a corporation's senior management.

In England occasional breaches of the law in this respect have been for some time tolerated, as in the case of the Corpus Christi procession annually held by the Italian community in London.

Eighty-three per cent of the annual convictions, summarily and on indictment, followed by committal to gaol, are for misconduct that is distinctly non-criminal, such as breaches of municipal by-laws and police regulations, drunkenness, gaming and offences under the vagrancy acts.

You should have the opportunity to put right minor remediable breaches.

Taken altogether the breaches were enough to conclude that he had repudiated the Contract.

See risk category for common breaches set out in the tabular summary above.

Tryptophan breaches the blood-brain barrier and is necessary for the production of the 'feel-good ' brain chemical serotonin.

In addition, SOX requires employees and professional advisors to disclose potential wrongdoing or breaches of fiduciary duty to a corporation 's senior management.

While database breaches do happen occasionally, major corporations invest considerable time and money to protect your personal data, especially during online transactions.