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• n  a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
• n  an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
• n  a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
• v  act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
• v  make an opening or gap in

• Dingell told PTI: "Despite multiple recent appearances before our Committee, many officials with specific knowledge of this security breach never informed us, and apparently .
• NASA reports that it caught one bit of good luck in that the breach occurred right over a stretch of the aluminum framework of the ship itself a bit like damaging a sheet-rock .
• So when one of them asks him to research a securities-fraud topic, for example, or breach of contract, he doesn't even think about applying his $395 hourly rate.

• rupture
• break
• severance
• rift
• falling out
• transgress
• offend
• infract
• violate
• go against
• gap

• keep

News & Articles

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• Family Advocacy Day Ambassador
  Colin Breach, a patient of Dayton Children's Hospital, discusses his upcoming trip to Washington, D.C. to fight for Family Advocacy Day. His mission is to persuade lawmakers to give money to hospitals across the nation to help treat children.
  June 18, 2013 - WDTN-TV 2 Dayton
• Lawsuit against O-State's Gundy rescheduled for late July
  A pretrial hearing in the breach-of-contract lawsuit against Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy has been pushed back to the end of July.
  June 18, 2013 - Tulsa World
• Protesters briefly breach security perimeter at G8
  ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Several dozen protesters briefly breached the metal security barrier surrounding the G8 summit venue in Northern Ireland on Monday, but withdrew when police threatened to arrest them. The protesters broke away from a march of around 1,000 environmentalists and rights activists, most of whom stopped as planned when they reached the metal fence around 2 ...
  June 17, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Los Angeles Times
  There apparently was a "mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential catastrophic breach of security," Obama said. "We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix the flaws in our system."
• Stephen Conroy in Sydney Morning Herald
  Senator Conroy described the move as deliberate and labeled it the "single greatest breach in the history of privacy".
• Chris Huhne in guardian.co.uk
  If these allegations are confirmed, they are not merely a breach of the Lords' rules, but are surely also against the law on corrupt practices,Huhne said.