1.   As she approached, one of them broke ranks and went to stand over Edward, apparently addressing him.

2.   But I broke ranks with him.

3.   He was the first to break ranks with Ceausescu and publicly criticise his policies.

4.   Moderate Assembly Republicans broke ranks with conservative members to defeat a GOP-sponsored bill that would have returned corporal punishment to the classroom.

5.   Only then, in the shock of the open air at last, did we break ranks and go our separate ways.

6.   The older sisters played too, although one broke ranks to play volleyball in her Junior college days.

7.   The pairs of glassy eyes no longer corresponded, in death they broke ranks, each distended eye gone its own way.

8.   The party has broken ranks, with five of its nine presidential hopefuls calling for a review of the revisions.

9.   Britain appears unlikely to break ranks with other members of the European Union.

10.   This argument was supported by former president P. W. Botha, who broke ranks with his NP entirely by urging whites to vote no.