break the spirit
Example Sentences
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“They’ll know if a team is trying to break the spirit of the rule,” Sword said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2023
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
The frantic mob scowled, shouted, made rushes for the tribunal, and used every effort short of personal assault which anger could suggest, to break the spirit of the man who balked their will.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
