Sentence examples for breakdowns under from inspiring English sources

The machine has never been stumped but is subject to breakdowns under pressure.

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A 20-ton beast that barely gets six miles to the gallon, the Stryker is also prone to breakdowns under the unforgiving demands of the military.

"A psychiatric breakdown under the strain," concluded Theodore White.

Mr. Hassan's wife, who has only one kidney, had a heart attack, then a breakdown under the stress, and she was at last allowed to go outside the zone for treatment.

The project has been troubled by internal conflict that surfaced last year in headlines warning that the Musée Picasso was edging toward an "implosion" and a "nervous breakdown" under Ms. Baldassari's management.

The double disappointment of the movie "Glitter" and its tie-in soundtrack album, along with Ms. Carey's breakdown under a nonstop promotional schedule, convinced Virgin that the $21 million it had already paid her for "Glitter," plus about $60 million it had promised for Ms. Carey's next four albums, would add up to an unprofitable investment.

"By the Sea" conjures the mood of erotic recklessness and discovery, along with a sense of loss — a time of heroic feats of self-liberation as well as of centrifugal forces throwing couples into crisis and making the personal dramatically public, of the veneer of glamour yielding to the urge for truth, of personal breakdown under the force of unresisted impulse.

It is unnerving if not a little fascinating to see the calorie breakdown under each course, and the 45 calories contained in my salad build me up to expect something so pathetic that I'd need a magnifying glass to help me eat it.

"Birdman," too, involves more than a touch of magic realism, but its magic is a bit on the nose; Nance's fantastic visions don't evoke character or even tell a story as much as they evoke a spirit world, a haunted landscape, a family nightmare in which intimacy is in danger of instant breakdown under the influence of latent, unfathomed forces that are as alluring as they are terrifying.

Breakdown under these conditions is termed 'under-voltage breakdown'.