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break a/the code

To determine or decipher a secret code. It is imperative that we break the enemy code and access their plans. She definitely broke the code on my phone—her picture is suddenly my new background!

break a code

to figure out a code; to decipher a secret code. The intelligence agents finally broke the enemy's code. When they broke the code, they were able to decipher messages.

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The original complainant has now asked Mr Jones to order an independent investigation into whether or not she broke the code by involving herself in responding to a complaint against her conduct and asking for the identity of the complainant to be revealed to her.

Carwyn inquiry call in adviser dispute

The original complainant has now asked Mr Jones to order an independent investigation into whether she broke the code by involving herself in responding to a complaint against her conduct and asking for the identity of the complainant to be revealed to her.

Call for probe into handling of complaint about special adviser

Steve Chadwick They broke the code but could not warn coventry as then the germans would know the code had been broken....

Tweets & Posts; Letters

Cllr Chris O'Neal also broke the code when he secretly filmed a traffic warden while questioning her why some vehicles were being allowed to use a main street when other drivers were banned.

I'll put a rope around your neck; Councillor banned over threat to bailiff

They certainly weren't upset that he broke the code of over protecting his children.

Awww, Amr Diab posts precious pics of his kids

Until I was about 50 I would say, or until menopause, I had lived my entire life with the Belief that there was a code I was about to break and as soon as I broke the code, what was going to Be revealed was going to be the thing I had Been searching for my entire life.

Anne Lamott: life as a black-belt codependent

Punk broke the code of conformity and its legacy can be seen in the music and art of John Lydon, Mark E Smith's poetry for the working classes and the arty existential angst and drama of Ian Curtis and Joy Division.

Punk Britannia: Post-punk (78-81)

Ranch owner Dennis Hoff said: "She broke the code, which is discretion with all clients.

Blabbing Tiger tart gets boot

Over half of state schools - 3,600 - broke the code aimed at giving all children an equal chance of their preferred one, the annual report of the Schools Adjudicator revealed yesterday.

Doubling in school place complaints; ADMISSIONS

The sixth TV advert was for a bingo service which broke the code because it seemed to suggest gambling could improve self-image or self-esteem and achieve financial security.

TV gambling ads broke the rules

Thomas Mitchell's website (tjmitchell.com/ stuart/rosslyn.html) has a sample of The Rosslyn Motet, as they named it, and a video demonstrating how they broke the code with an ancient musical system called cymatics.

Decoding music

The programme said the bank's director of policy co-ordination and risk, John Spence, admitted that Lloyds TSB broke the code.

`Loan shark' bank

Enigma, based on Robert Harris's best-selling novel, is the Second World War thriller about the famous Nazi code and the crucial turning point in the war when the British broke the code in 1943.

The Toronto International Film Festival (9/6-9/16/01). (Festival Wraps)

A broker was caught pushing endowment policies and downplaying repayment policies - advice which clearly broke the code guidelines.

Mortgage sellers' knuckles rapped

Nick Bourne, who leads the Tory group at Cardiff Bay, has made a formal complaint that Ms Owens broke the code last week when making 'inflammatory' remarks about the Welsh language that were published in the Daily Post.