Sentence examples for breakdown marks from inspiring English sources

At a time of scandals involving the traditional players – Barclays over the Libor inter-bank interest rate, HSBC over money laundering and RBS over disruption caused by a serious computer breakdown – Marks said in the past six weeks there had been a 60% increase in customers "banging on our doors, wanting to join us".

People who smoke the most cannabis were found to be the most likely to suffer a psychotic breakdown marked by delusions, hallucinations or disordered thoughts.

More narrowly, Friday night's breakdown marked the failure of an effort by the companies to reboot the talks as a more tightly focused negotiation, despite earlier bad blood.

Elsina Wainwright, an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute who has written on Australia's "near abroad", sees September 11th as instrumental: it helped to focus minds on the dangers of failing states.The Solomons, a collection of 1,000 islands wracked by civil war and political and economic breakdown, marked a key departure for Australia.

The two-week sequestered talks at Camp David, which included round-the-clock negotiations -- much of the time with Mr. Clinton as mediator and go-between, as well as threatened walkouts and at least one narrowly averted breakdown, marked one of the most intensive mediating efforts by an American president in the Middle East since Jimmy Carter brokered a peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978.

As the voltage increases, the current stresses the material (by electric polarization) beyond its dielectric limit (termed strength) into a stage of electrical breakdown, marked by an electric spark, where the material transforms from being an insulator into a conductor (as it becomes increasingly ionized).

Here's the breakdown: Full marks to the Rangers for blocking Ottawa's shots so effectively.

This is unlikely to receive the support of head teachers, who want a full breakdown of marks.

Only much later, when McNeill has a mental breakdown that marks an abrupt end to the relationship, can she understand her state of mind: "That it was me who lived through this period seems, in retrospect, unthinkable.

Rather, as Mr. Feig puts it, it's "a nervous-breakdown movie," marked by a balance between outrageous comedy and emotional moments.

Brazil has less than a year to ensure that the organizational breakdowns that marked the visit of Pope Francis to Rio de Janeiro last week won't be repeated at soccer's 2014 World Cup.