Sentence examples for breakdown lay from inspiring English sources

Most whites accepted the loss of power yet fretted that extreme violence and economic breakdown lay ahead.

Martin McGuinness, the party's chief negotiator, denied that Sinn Fein had "defaulted" on the peace arrangements and said the blame for the breakdown lay elsewhere.

Much later, in the central scene of Act II, Amelia, having had a nervous breakdown, lies unconscious in a hospital bed.

Rather, the apparent breakdown lies in the general lack of replication within and across methods.

Yet, conversations like these breakdown barriers, lay the groundwork for the wolf and lamb to lie together without fearing each other.

A precursor of the serious breakdowns that lay ahead had occurred in a legislative race in Los Angeles in 1976.

Despite the turmoil, some economists said the breakdown could ultimately lay the groundwork for a real estate recovery.

A sequence describing her nervous breakdown as she lies on the floor doing abdominal crunches is memorably banal.

These email exchanges lay bare a breakdown in communication and, in some cases, what the BBC called a "failure of editorial judgment".

"The committee intends to write to Mr Walker to invite him to set out in detail the nature of the concerns which lay behind the breakdown of his relationship with the Lincolnshire trust", Dorrell wrote.

It contended that the real responsibility for the breakdown in the peace plan lay with Britain and the pro-British Ulster Unionist Party, who, it said, have "no desire to deal with the issue of arms except on their terms".