Sentence examples for breakdown of standards from inspiring English sources

Anomie, also spelled anomy, in societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals.

One implication, particularly, stood out: namely, in any other industry where there had been such a collective breakdown of standards, and where such injustice had been perpetrated, there would have been an inquiry.

The camera nearly killed it off once and for all as an occupation for painters and sculptors -- liberating artists from the chore of verisimilitude, or hastening the breakdown of standards, something from which art in the modern age has never recovered, depending on your viewpoint.

Within Queensland, two reviews of a high profile incident resulting from a breakdown of standards and safety of hospital care were highly critical of clinical governance and culture within the organization.

Mr. Merton had asked himself what it was that brought about anomie, a state in which, according to Mr. Durkheim, the breakdown of social standards threatened social cohesion.

Though the vast majority of patients receive good care in the NHS there are pockets of ill-treatment and neglect that reveal a breakdown of fundamental standards.

So the fault doesn't 100% rest on Dropbox, though it's still a breakdown of security standards within the company and emphasizes the perils of password re-use that can extend into a corporate environment.

In press statement on their website, Burning Man organizers blamed the rave element for "a breakdown of civic standards and community created chaos".

Placing inappropriate people in senior posts just to fill a gap leads to demoralisation of people having to work with/under them, a breakdown of service standards, inefficiency and poor service delivery.

In order to illustrate potential problems in applying 'classical' uncertainty analysis methods to nonlinear systems, a simple nonlinear system is simulated and the breakdown of two standard approaches is demonstrated on data from the system.

Tom Kent, our Deputy Managing Editor for Standards, finished a thoughtful breakdown of where our standards served us well and where we fell short.