break the spirit
Example Sentences
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Yankee Stadium public address announcer Paul Olden began a brief pregame ceremony by calling the attacks “an unsuccessful attempt to break the spirit of our great nation.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
There are strict international rules about what counts as aid and charities fear the Treasury is looking at options that would effectively break the spirit of these rules.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2021
Dueker said that’s one more item to break the spirit of police officers who bring the cases to court.
From Fox News ● Aug. 3, 2021
The odds against that in countries such as Romania, to say nothing of Syria or South Sudan, are steeper, creating equivocations that over time become so inured that they break the spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2017
And it appears Mr. Forster was so infatuated as to believe that it needed only a few months more of his stern rule to break the spirit of the Irish people.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various
