Sentence examples for breakdown even from inspiring English sources

Here loss, suicide, mental breakdown, even terrorism are all part of the joyride.

Each of the four leaders would appoint two members, making the breakdown even between Republicans and Democrats.

The breakdown, even if temporary, pointed up the difficulties of dealing with fast-moving emergencies through the slow-moving and inherently political legislative process.

Then there are sequences in which dancers cannot stand straight, in which they demonstrate various kinds of collapse and breakdown; even when they fall to the floor, they cannot stay still and cannot find comfort.

Wales varied their options in the lineout, using six targets in all, and retained possession at the breakdown, even when a shoulder injury forced their open-side flanker and captain Sam Warburton to retire at half-time.

The officer, Max Aue, a lawyer in civilian life, presents himself as a cultivated man; a Nazi by conviction rather than expedience, intellectually scrupulous, highly disciplined but also sensitive (the mass killings he observes and helps to organise sicken him to the point of repeated breakdown, even as he constantly affirms, explains and re-explains his belief in their necessity).

Her private life was a messy tableau of affairs, miscarriages, abortions and breakdowns, even as she struggled to become a serious actress.

The latest trouble showed again how the stock market "remained vulnerable to technological breakdowns even as regulators and market operators work to keep up with trading that is increasingly electronic and driven by speed," Mr. Popper writes.

Updated, 9 39 p.m. | The United States stock market showed again on Thursday that it remained vulnerable to technological breakdowns even as regulators and market operators work to keep up with trading that is increasingly electronic and driven by speed.

22 Pricing Problem Suspends Nasdaq for Three Hours | The United States stock market remains vulnerable to technological breakdowns even as regulators and market operators work to keep up with trading that is increasingly electronic and driven by speed.

"Pro-golf has skins matches where Stanfordesque sums are awarded or witheld on the basis of one putt - nobody seems to suffer breakdowns, even if it's a bit sordid," points out Gary Naylor, always on the lookout for relevant parallels.