According to WW1 historian Dr Gerry Oram, Mrs Barron's experience represented wider fears about a breakdown in society.
Each episode of flooding was "a complete psychodrama decade, a meltdown in history, a breakdown in society, a refugee nightmare, an eco-catastrophe, the planet gone collectively nuts".
Before the discussion, my opinion was definitely that we shouldn't legalise any drugs, and that it would be giving in and leading to a breakdown in society.
In an apparent dig at both his coalition partners and the opposition, he said there was a tendency for parties to adopt "cardboard cutout" positions to social problems, with one side blaming the problems on a breakdown in society and the other blaming government policy.
And for Ch Supt Ephgrave, the crime came to symbolise a breakdown in society's values.
This year's report shows a shift away from worries about the environment to concerns about a breakdown in society and economies.
As the story develops, Kirkman uses the zombie backdrop to portray what happens to morals, ethics, laws, relationships, and many other human elements in the midst of a breakdown in society.
The U.S. has real national security interests to avert the factionalism, radicalism, and breakdown in society and security that we have seen in Sudan's Saharan neighbors, whether Libya and Egypt, Mali, or the worst-case scenario, Somalia.
The Prime Minister is clearly conscious of the gender breakdowns in Australian society, and keen to demonstrate that he's a more engaged PM than Abbott.
In conflict zones, the most common killers of wildlife are not guns and bombs, but breakdowns in institutions, societies and economies, according to a study by researchers at UC Berkeley.
