Sentence examples for breakdown means from inspiring English sources

Preventing climate breakdown means defending democracy from plutocrats.

The breakdown means he will push for a takeover bill that would allow the state to exercise broad power over union contracts, Mr. Rowland said.

Family breakdown means that when a child is killed by the man of the house, that man is less likely than in the past to be their father.

The breakdown means that the Berkshire psychiatric hospital, home to some of the country's most notorious criminals including the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, and the Stockwell Strangler, Kenneth Erskine, broke strict government guidelines regulating high-security hospitals.

Despite the fact that, as Dr Massimo Riccio, consultant psychiatrist and medical director of The Priory in Roehampton, points out: 'There isn't really any such thing in medical terms - saying someone has had a breakdown means everything and nothing, and we need a lot more information to fine-tune a diagnosis and make it manageable.' Nevertheless, it is a helpful description for the layman.

This breakdown means that just one in five candidates felt "informed" during their last job application process.

A communications breakdown meant that workers at the plant had no clear sense of what was happening.

In fact, the forces of globalisation, technological change, labour market deregulation and family breakdown mean the pace of inequality is going to accelerate.

Despite the fact that she worked full time and had as many as four side jobs, she had no savings at all, and the latest breakdown meant she'd be late for work again.

My breakdown meant that I had to finally tell my friends and professors about my depression.

Table 1 Backboard time with breakdown   Mean SD Total 54 min ±65 EMS interval 33 min ±64 Hospital interval 21 min ±15.