Sentence examples for approaching breakdown from inspiring English sources

In particular, the system as a whole has been described by "reformers" as approaching breakdown.

Sharon Goldstein mourns her son's departure for Brandeis by flinging herself into her catering business and her cultish "LEAP!" program, scarcely noticing that her daughter appears to be starving and her husband may be approaching a breakdown.

He warned that the black family "is highly unstable, and in many urban centers approaching complete breakdown", concluding that the federal government must enact policies that "bring the Negro American to full and equal sharing of responsibilities and rewards of citizenship".

As the anodization voltage approaches the breakdown voltage, a large number of sparks appear superimposed on the anodic GL.

As the anodization voltage approaches the breakdown voltage (about 380 V in oxalic acid and 480 V in 12-tungstosilicic acid), a large number of microdischarges appear superimposed on the GL.

The applied voltage was increased in discrete steps with an increment V s, which was decreased when it approached the breakdown threshold.

As the heat approaches the breakdown temperature of the intermediate layer, the layer partly dissolves and the resistance decreases, which is observed as a drop in the voltage response.

As anyone with a passing knowledge of TV storytelling will tell you, a dressing gown worn outdoors is shorthand for someone approaching a shattering breakdown.

With the Kavanaugh hearings — and possibly a collective nervous breakdown — approaching like a Category 4 hurricane, I humbly offer a media user's guide to the week ahead, with a little help from my media desk colleagues Paul Farhi and Sarah Ellison.

And all the time, poor Riggan is approaching a mental breakdown due to the imminent critical and commercial catastrophe; and he can't quite admit to himself that he is addicted to celebrity, though he is unsure how to renegotiate his declining position as a famous person in the alien new world of reality shows and social media.

The result is a much more coherent portrait of a society approaching a nervous breakdown.