Sentence examples for breakdown in which from inspiring English sources

Critics contend the cemetery bedlam reflects a societal breakdown in which impunity is widespread.

Writer analyzes this society's "breakdown" in which an act of violence can be taken as a "symbolic gesture of protest".

Just as the roles become confused, so Nina herself moves towards what resembles a clinical breakdown in which she can't distinguish fantasy from reality.

The United States is in the midst of a nervous breakdown in which conspiracy theorists insist that the president is using his office's powers to destroy the country.

At issue is whether Mr. Stern's stated opposition to the use of quotas masked something more insidious, and whether the department's racial breakdown, in which both the upper echelons and specific geographic assignments are almost exclusively white, is happenstance.

A couple of years after his Hollywood return, Nichols had a medication-induced psychotic breakdown in which he believed he was broke and unable to provide for his three children.

It called the RAC out to 10 staged breakdowns in which their experts had declared that the battery simply needed to be recharged, and the car run for a while.

Two-thirds of the subway elevators — many of which travel all of 15 feet — had at least one breakdown last year in which passengers were trapped inside.

Michael Landy's most famous previous work was Breakdown 2001, in which he used an industrial shredder to destroy all his possessions.

The LOT value reported from the LOT test may be the formation breakdown pressure in which the rock has a high tensile strength.

This forward sweeping voltage (+2 V) may set the device into the soft breakdown mode in which the dielectric is stressed by a large compliance current (3 mA).