Sentence examples similar to abject breakdown from inspiring English sources
A Cholmondeley-Warner voiceover narrates the tragi-comic escapades of the Span with a brilliantly dispassionate cynicism: "A hit for the Span could propel them from abject poverty and nervous breakdowns to a life of luxury," he surmises.
"The abject failure of governments around the world to tackle climate breakdown means we're already feeling the effects of more extreme weather," says Caroline Lucas, the Green Party MP. "Our top scientists are warning that we'll see more storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves in the coming years – but the government's plans to mitigate the worst impacts are vague at best".
"RMT supports the principle of a properly worked out night Tube service introduced through agreement with the unions but the abject failure to work through the detail has led to a comprehensive breakdown in the negotiations and has forced us to name a programme of further industrial action.
Nicholas Purnell QC, in mitigation for ThyssenKrupp, blamed a "breakdown of communication and records which led to a confused state", rather than an "abject failure" on the company's part.
By the time she died, at fifty-eight, in October of 1950, she had reduced her abject dependence on narcotics, though even after several hospitalizations for alcohol- and drug-related nervous breakdowns she defined sobriety as restricting her daily liquor intake to a litre and a half of wine.
Of all the abject illusions!
Communications breakdown.
That was abject cowardice".
This shows abject incompetence.
