Vietnam was a ball-breaker.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Would you call her a ball-breaker if she was a bloke?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resurrection Men]

` If it wasn't so politically incorrect, I'd call her a ball-breaker. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleshmarket Close]

As I said, this one is a real ball-breaker. with no easy answers at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference

She may have been a gold-digger, a back-stabber or a ball-breaker - but she was never a hypocrite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

He'd heard from doctors he played golf with that she was a real ball-breaker, the scourge of the hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat Tuesday]

Note that constructive criticism is the opposite side of an important dividing line from being an impossible ball-breaker or a nag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Appesat Diaries] Reference

What with that and his ball-breaker at home trying to work her own sub-agenda through him, he must by now be a little trepidatious to say the least.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Either that or ask Jacqui Smith's husband; he obviously married his ball-breaker for political purposes and needed a bit of help with the other conjugal entitlements.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Basically, Ernie is a creation of Senator Mitch McConnell; you know, the king-maker and ball-breaker who likes to work behind the scenes (read Craig, Stevens, and Vitter).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fletcher Unveils Latest Anti-Casino Ad] Reference

I produced it - which means my role has been the ball-breaker!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet] Reference

As he related the story, O'Hair called Woods a world-class "ball-breaker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sports News : CBSSports.com] Reference

And young David's aptly branded: just the whiff of a ball-breaker yarn and he's off and at it - Hastiely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slattsnews] Reference

The characterisation of her a "ball-breaker", a ruthless business woman, is a gross mischaracterisation of the woman Juliette knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

They chuck their new melodic ball-breaker, Still I Rise, in early and Fair is immediately whipping the crowd into a frenzy with plenty of finger-pointing and windmilling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference

"She's a 'ball-breaker', and that's why she was so successful in politics," said professor Shannon Lundeen, associate director of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Pennsylvanian] Reference

But would The Apprentice really have worked if Sugar's role had been taken by a female counterpart, some dour, discursive, cynical ball-breaker who fulfilled every cliché on the planet about successful career women?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed] Reference

She ran as a ball-breaker and denied her full humanity.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gail Sheehy] Reference

It wasn’t just that Horowitz was an infamous ball-breaker — a ‘tornado unleashed from the Steppes’ as one reviewer described him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes to Bach, no to Debussy] Reference

In fact it is through the mouth of the ship that the alien is vanquished, not by phallic weapons lovingly dubbed “ball-breaker,” which would be useless if your enemy doesn’t have balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aliens as Art?] Reference

I hear she was a ball-breaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just what I NEVER wanted!] Reference

“She was a real ball-breaker.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei] Reference

I thought she was more of a ball-breaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time for action not inaction] Reference

But a ball-breaker if Bobby had ever seen one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alibi]

Margaret Cole: the City ball-breaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

That's a ball-breaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

A ball-breaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [AfterDowningStreet.org] Reference

"She's a ball-breaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resurrection Men]