Sentence examples for a widespread breakdown from inspiring English sources

BlackBerry is to retain its status as the government's favoured mobile device for transferring restricted information, despite the network problems that led to a widespread breakdown in its service for three days last week.

Two months after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraq is widely depicted as a nation in chaos, with armed gangs dominating Baghdad's streets amid a widespread breakdown of public services.

Alex Beckett, senior food analyst at Mintel, said: "That food should not be harmful should be one of the most basic of consumer expectations, yet only half of adults feel the UK food industry provides food that is safe to eat, signalling a widespread breakdown of trust in the agri-food chain, and suggesting the need for more active communications and greater transparency towards consumers".

Though dictator Saddam Hussein was responsible for the torture, murder, and general suppression of Iraqi civilians, his ousting has led to a widespread breakdown of security and huge increase in sectarian fighting.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, 5 December 2008 – After a widespread breakdown in social services, the Government of Zimbabwe declared a national cholera crisis on Wednesday.

And it has sparked a widespread breakdown of social norms as sustained violence forces families to flee the homes they have lived in for generations and to seek sanctuary in places where they are strangers.

Any widespread breakdown of a cease-fire called by Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who founded the Mahdi Army, could bring the country back to the sectarian violence that strained it in 2006 and 2007.

The more immediate one is the widespread breakdown of authority.

But no state reported the kind of widespread breakdown in machinery or procedures that crippled the voting here in the past.

But unlike the situation after Katrina hit New Orleans, there was no widespread breakdown of civic order: even though the police were absent, the crime rate did not go up.

The widespread breakdown of military command and discipline is glossed over and the military effort was led only by medal winners.