Sentence examples for breakdown of a system from inspiring English sources

Dr. Machizawa, like many observers of Japan after World War II, believes that the suicide rate is one response to a gradual breakdown of a system that rewarded traditional Japanese values of loyalty, hierarchy and paternalism.

That may indicate a breakdown of a system that has helped to deter the big tech firms from fighting each other and that provided the conditions for rapid and wide innovations.

You may strategically decide not to save someone from their own procrastination, but it's important to understand when the issue is not one of procrastination, but rather a breakdown of a system or process.

That's why we need an independent investigation to establish -- was this an isolated incident or, more likely, the breakdown of a system of controlling and managing risks.

If it continues, it can lead to the breakdown of a political system.

But the idea of working hard for years to win an IMF/EU certificate of good behaviour holds little appeal.Either in fear or in hope, many Greeks detect a breakdown of a political system, over a century old, in which two political groups (notionally of the centre-left and the centre-right, but both given to patronage and graft) progressively exhaust the national exchequer by outbidding each other.

AFP – A piece of plastic padding which clogged up a drain is thought to have caused the breakdown of a decontamination system at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the operator said Sunday.

Deasy resigned Wednesday after months of friction with his elected bosses on the school board, much of it generated by a pair of technology debacles — the troubled rollout of a plan to provide an iPad for every student and teacher, and the breakdown of a records system that left thousands of students without needed classes at the start of the school year.

From the glittering majesty of "Kettles", to the gabba breakdown of "System" – a track Birchard describes as "a hard, 909, Jeff Mills, boot in the balls after all the R&B" – the album is a crystallisation of the influences, quirks, and experiments that he has collected to date.

Forecasters said the breakdown of a high pressure system, which brought weeks of warm weather, opened the way for a cold storm system from Canada to barrel through California.

During his time in the troupe, he has directed several teams of technicians in the setup and breakdown of a theater sound system in tour venues and is mentoring incoming students about theater sound design.