Sentence examples for causing a breakdown from inspiring English sources

China cannot reform without producing stress in the communal discipline customary in the Communist system & without causing a breakdown of older values in the traditional society.

Tests showed that the VX nerve agent inhibited enzyme levels in the victim's body, causing a breakdown in neurotransmitters that send signals to the brain and muscles.

"Crimes committed by ad dicts are keeping people off the streets, forcing shops to close down and causing a breakdown in respect for the law and for government," he said.

It sounds funny, but people are having children just to get a house [through the social housing system]." "This nimbyism is causing a breakdown," said Karl Hicks, managing director of Larkfkleet Homes, the developer that proposed the homes at the village of Manthorpe in Boles's constituency.

And it's this idea of the global and the personal intersecting and causing a breakdown.

The government was criticised for firing large numbers of district and provincial chiefs directly appointed by Diệm, causing a breakdown in law and order during the abrupt transition of power.

The global financial crisis caused a breakdown of trust in corporations.

Its effect was to cause a breakdown of discipline in the armed forces.

There appear to be several factors, any one of which can cause a breakdown and give the other team's offense a shorter field.

The problem is that Baycol, when used in combination with gemfibrozil, occasionally produced a disorder that caused a breakdown of muscle cells, leading to kidney failure.

An illness like A.T.R.T. causes a breakdown of all biological, emotional, and family order: nothing goes the way you expect, let alone want, it to.