Besides granting broader trade negotiating authority to the president, the agreement, reached just before midnight Thursday, breaks significant new ground for American workers.

An agreement with groups representing the Kachin ethnic minority in the north-east broke down last summer.

Her agreement truly broke the ice.

The agreement breaks a 12-year stalemate that has kept the airport from expanding.

The agreement also breaks new ground in defining, beforehand, the legal ownership of recovered treasure.

The agreement breaks a six-day diplomatic deadlock over the fate of the refugees, most of whom are from Afghanistan.

In this and other ways, the proposed agreement broke with an industry-wide master agreement.

The agreement with Darlington council later broke down, so it was decided to begin construction at Tyseley Locomotive Works, beginning in 1995.

Lastly, this agreement again breaks new ground because, for the first time, an environmental derogation will be called for.

The agreement will break new ground for EU/South Africa cooperation in many areas.