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breach
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breach
1. the act of a whale in breaking clear of the water
2. the breaking of sea waves on a shore or rock
3. an obsolete word for wound


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The UN founders' objective was to create an organization that could "take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace and suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace.
Charter, which relates to action with "respect to threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression" and which is the basis for the authority to "use all necessary means.
From the beginning of our country's history, certain types of expression did not enjoy constitutional protection: libel and slander; speech involved in the commission of a crime; talk that violated national security; and breaches of the peace, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous example that it is illegal to yell ``fire'' in a crowded theater when there is no fire.
 
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