Sentence examples for as a breakdown from inspiring English sources

They interpreted it as a breakdown of civil society.

Another person close to the events characterizes what happened as "a breakdown".

As mayor, Fenty retained his overwhelming popularity among white voters, as a breakdown of last Tuesday's vote demonstrates.

Representatives of a wide range of countries spoke today of what they saw as a breakdown in community values.

Jones mused last week, in his thinking-out-loud way, that the recruitment of Smith as a breakdown specialist might be a nice idea.

If colleges released more detailed statistics — such as a breakdown of their student body into comparable income buckets — we would happily use them in our analysis.

On the Republican side, in the Senate, the overrides were seen by many as a breakdown of the governor's influence over his own party.

The notice, known as a breakdown, said that rehearsals would begin in early fall, with an eye toward a Broadway run late this year.

He wrote more than 50 books, notably "Modernity and the Holocaust," a 1989 release in which he differed with many other thinkers who saw the barbarism of the Holocaust as a breakdown in modernity.

Analyse the reports of Newsnight's Mark Urban, for whom "balance" means giving Israeli politicians and generals the opportunity to excuse the levelling of Palestinian homes as a "breakdown in communication" between army and government.

Israel is preparing as much for a breakdown as for a breakthrough in negotiations.