Sentence examples for a computer breakdown from inspiring English sources

Will there be a computer breakdown.

"We did it because we thought there might be a computer breakdown.

This is the second publicly reported problem for the G.M.A.T.; a computer breakdown at test administration centers interrupted the test in December 1997, when it was first offered online.

He can remind a young customer to remove his ball cap without embarrassing him, read a room like a D.J. and adjust the style and volume of the music to its mood, and summon the technological wherewithal to handle a computer breakdown.

Mr. Dow said that in refocusing their appeal on lethal injection, they suffered a computer breakdown and tried to get the Court of Criminal Appeals to wait 20 minutes after closing time so the brief could be delivered by hand, but that they were turned down.

RBS, which is 83% owned by the taxpayer, was accused of having the "best paid public sector workers by a mile" after admitting for the first time that 95 bankers were handed £1m last year even though the bank was hit by a £390m fine for rigging Libor and suffered a prolonged computer breakdown.

At a time of scandals involving the traditional players – Barclays over the Libor inter-bank interest rate, HSBC over money laundering and RBS over disruption caused by a serious computer breakdown – Marks said in the past six weeks there had been a 60% increase in customers "banging on our doors, wanting to join us".

When a mysterious computer breakdown appeared to alter the results of the 1988 presidential elections, giving victory to the governing party, millions more came to believe that it would steal an election to stay in power.

The United States government's ability to keep track of looming international threats was drastically curtailed last year because of a prolonged computer breakdown at the Pentagon agency that collects and analyzes photographs from spy satellites, several federal intelligence officials said.

In April, the station's crew coped with a critical computer breakdown -- the sort of danger that Stanley Kubrick and his co-author, Arthur C. Clarke, had predicted in "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- and did so without distracting America from the start of the baseball season.

"People are not happy about it, but if it's a legitimate computer breakdown, what are you going to do?" At the Gentleman Hunter in Bethesda, Md., the owner, Art Harris, told The Associated Press, "We haven't lost any deals yet, but Saturday is our biggest day".