Nevertheless, the program is a sharp break from past policy.

The move would be a sharp break with the department's tradition of policing itself.

As in the economy in general, there was a sharp break after 1672.

I followed the direction with my eye, and saw what appeared to be a sharp break in the wall.

"I don't think we're ever going to do a sharp break."

If there were some sharp break in the distribution - But nothing significant has been found.

But they represented a sharp break from the rest of the collection, which was the kind usually called commercial.

Thus the plan's projections constitute a sharp break with the past.

Conoco's move is a sharp break with other oil companies.

Donor countries would have little control over how the money was spent, a sharp break with usual practice.