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But, May will tell MPs on Monday: "Let us not break faith with the

UK Prime Minister Dismisses Calls for New Brexit Vote

The PM will say: "Let us not break faith with the British people by trying to stage another referendum.

Brexit news: People's Vote would 'break faith with British people'; Theresa May is set to state she fears a second referendum would do "irreparable damage" to Britain's democracy

So it's disappointing that, at the last minute, with no discussion, he has chosen to break faith with the cross-party agreement to tackle a crisis which, in his own words, "leads to 1,500 premature deaths in the West Midlands each year".

Wrong way Street plays to gallery on Clean Air Zone

"However hard it is to live up to the ideals of the UN charter and however distant we are from their realization, we have a responsibility not to break faith, and to hold together when people want to divide us," Jolie added.

Angelina Jolie Attends Musical Show With Kids Maddox, Shiloh

And, while well never buy ourselves out of this shortage, an extended CR will also negate the pilot bonuses Congress authorized, which will break faith with the force.

United States : Goldfein: Continuing resolution detrimental to Air Force

But keeping faith with climate alarmists will break faith with taxpayers and consumers.

The coal moratorum--politics again masquerading as policy

With me you get the real deal, and I refuse to break faith with my audience.

Say what?

If a general-fund budget shortfall appeared two or three years from now, would the city break faith with voters by asking libraries to absorb their share of the cuts?

Could city keep promises?

Might we not wonder exactly what WW1 soldier poet John McCrae meant by: 'If ye break faith with us who die'?

Lessons of war

Written in the voice of those who fell at Ypres, it declares, "Take up our quarrel with the foe / To you from failing hands we throw the torch / If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep." This reasoning has been used to sustain bloodshed in many nations and contexts.

Is Afghanistan the new Flanders Field?

"If for some reason we took a position now in the 21st century, when some of our adversaries may not be traditional state actors, that we would not do our utmost to bring our prisoners of war home, that would break faith with the American people and with the men and women who serve in uniform," she said.

Republicans slam Obama Admin. for Taliban exchange

We break promises, we break trust, we break faith. As Bob Dylan's gravelly voice intoned, "Ain't no use jivin'/ain't no use jokin'/Everything is broken ..." Everything from individual selves to social structures and systems--even the church is broken.