Sentence examples for be a meltdown from inspiring English sources

On 4chan, a night that even a lot of 4channers thought would be a meltdown turned in a celebration filled with schadenfreude, Internet-savvy racism and frogs.

"The very notion that there has to be a meltdown first before shareholders can swing into action is inimical to good governance," said Phil Angelides, the state treasurer of California.

Entwistle told Van Klaveren, a former deputy director of the news division, he needed his help to sort out what appeared to be a meltdown due to the unfolding Jimmy Savile scandal.

Experts say it is impossible to forecast how events at Japan's stricken nuclear plant will unfold, whether there will be a meltdown or other crisis at one or more of the reactors that results in a large release of radioactivity into the environment.

That threat is not lost on the global elite gathering in Davos, where the fear is that phase one of the global financial crisis was caused by the US housing market, phase two was caused by the eurozone and phase three will now be a meltdown in China.

She said there were rumours in Westminster that No 10 were sniffing at the idea, as a way of trying to rescue some political capital after what will, no doubt, be a meltdown for Labour in the 4 June European elections.

It might have been a meltdown moment.

(What is a meltdown? Elizabeth Kolbert explains).

This was a meltdown of simply unimaginable proportions.

It's not globe-hopping; it's a meltdown.

Brown has a vague sense that there was a meltdown with a TV star.