breach of faith
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbreachandfaith
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breach
noun[C]
uk/briːtʃ/us/briːtʃ/
an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, ...
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faith
noun
uk/feɪθ/us/feɪθ/
great trust or confidence in something ...
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(Definition ofbreachandfaithfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These included cowardice, betrayal,breachoffaith, gratuitous shaming, and humiliation.
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One of the most persistent problems for collective or institutional honour wasbreachoffaithin observance of terms of surrender.
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It is nevertheless significant that they went to considerable trouble to preserve the appearance of honour and to avoid a formalbreachoffaith.
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Apart from the merits or otherwise of introducing these charges, such an action would be a massivebreachoffaithwith the electorate.
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So much for the allegation that there was abreachoffaith.
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He is so good as to talk aboutbreachoffaithand all the rest of it.
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To interfere with this last instalment would be very undesirable and might be regarded, perhaps, as abreachoffaithtowards the holders.
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There is simply nothing in the argument that this is abreachoffaith.
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I come to the second suggestion, that in asking for reparation to the full extent we are guilty of abreachoffaith.
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Although he has not charged me exactly withbreachoffaith, it is really tantamount to that.
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Is not the ending of this right of veto, and therefore of the protection of individual national interests, somewhat more than abreachoffaith?
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There is no question ofbreachoffaith.
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Subsection (2) dealt with records obtained under conditions where their being open to public inspection might constitute abreachoffaith.
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Many people see this as abreachoffaith, to put it mildly, on the part of a nationalised industry.
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Abreachoffaithis a matter of absolute concern.
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As far as my party is concerned, it is a completebreachoffaith.
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We regarded it as abreachoffaith, which is what it was.
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I do not like to deal with these charges ofbreachoffaith.
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That is the way you invent and utter charges ofbreachoffaith, but there will be nobreachoffaithhere.
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I believe it would be abreachoffaith.
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