Despite these measures, security has been seriously breached more than a hundred times.

In February the Smithsonian Agreement was seriously breached when the yen was floated (sterling had already been floated in June 1972).

In the early 1960s the American containment ring around the Soviet bloc had been seriously breached only by the Soviet acquisition of military facilities in Cuba.

Tomariian custom had been seriously breached.

The dam of all-powerful monogamy and the commitments it entails has been seriously breached.

By the autumn of 1788 a number of local committees were established but the process seems not to have seriously breached Wilberforce's guidelines.

"A big franchise company does not terminate a major bottler unless it feels the bottler has seriously breached its fiduciary duty to the franchise company."

If an Association Agreement concluded with a country is seriously breached, this should be able to bring about its suspension, even on a temporary basis.

The campus and the wild side both maintained their air pressure: neither cylinder had been seriously breached.

But the cylinder's not seriously breached and the missile didn't detonate.