break one
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“You come into our state and you break one of our ... laws, you’re going to be criminally charged. That’s it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
The popular imagination assumes a clean break—one day humans drive and the next only robots do.
“It’s like breeding racehorses,” said Ron Wallace, the first grower to break one ton in 2012.
And it would also break one of the fundamentals of Law Five that applies at all levels, with or without VAR, which says a referee cannot change a restart decision if he realises it's incorrect after play has restarted.
From BBC
“Don’t you guys take a break?” one reporter asked an agent.
From Slate
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