NOUN | a breakaway group | breakaway groups | |
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- If a skater escapes a pack in order to join a successful breakaway group, it is known as "bridging up".
- The breakaway group felt that he was no longer relevant, and they turned Isou's own words back against him: "We appreciated the importance of Chaplin's work "in its own time", but we know that today novelty lies elsewhere, and 'truths which no longer entertain become lies' (Isou)."
- Hone Toia was the leader/prophet of a breakaway group of Wesleyans called Te Huihuinga or Te Huihui.
- The Free-PLP were a breakaway group of eight MPs from the then governing Progressive Liberal Party.
- A side-story looked at the rivalry between the EIB (Extreme Ironing Bureau) and a breakaway group called Urban Housework who were trying to establish their own extreme sport based around vacuum-cleaning.
- Hildale, formerly known as Short Creek Community, was founded in 1913 by members of the Council of Friends, a breakaway group from the Salt Lake City-based the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
- Rothschild and Jourdain founded it as a breakaway group after egg collecting by members of the British Ornithologists' Union, was denounced by Earl Buxton at a meeting of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
- The breakaway group of members formed the Barisan Sosialis with Lim Chin Siong as secretary-general.
- The Mahāsāṃghikas therefore saw the Sthaviras as being a breakaway group which was attempting to modify the original Vinaya.
- At the time of his endorsement for Burke in 2001 he was aligned with the 'Independent Left', a breakaway group from the Socialist Left.
- Chalmers' ideas shaped the breakaway group. He stressed a social vision that revived and preserved Scotland's communal traditions at a time of strain on the social fabric of the country.
- In 2000, then President Joseph Estrada ordered the AFP to launch an "All-Out war" against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a breakaway group of the MNLF that wants to proclaim Mindanao an independent state.
- Historically, the BLP claims a heritage from British liberalism, while the DLP was founded 11 years afterwards as a more left-leaning breakaway group.
- The Drama Centre London was founded in 1963 by a breakaway group of teachers and students from the Central School of Speech and Drama, led by John Blatchley, Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes.
- The 1988 race contained a rare spectacle, for the first time in 30 years an early morning breakaway group held on until the finish: 27 kilometres into the race a group of unknown riders broke away and the pack did nothing to chase them down throughout the race.
- The issue of contraception divided secularists and a breakaway group, the British Secular Union, was formed.
- This breakaway group aligned with Saor Uladh. They set up a youth group who also called themselves Fianna Éireann with Gearoid O'Kelly as Chief Scout; he previously had a Fianna "sluagh" in Newbridge, but was now living in Ballyboden.
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