Sentence examples for close to breakdown from inspiring English sources

I was close to breakdown.

The fearsome Clinton machine appeared to be close to breakdown.

He saw then how close to breakdown America was, because of hunger.

Their reality gets stranger and stranger, and they come close to breakdown — the movie is funniest when it is craziest.

Cases like that of Mr. Kennedy dramatically illustrate how close to breakdown many addicts live, they say.

But the collapse of Lehman Brothers, followed by the long series of rescues in Europe and America, seems to have brought the money markets close to breakdown.

Ash's dad has returned from war, close to a breakdown and lost in a world of imaginary threats.

Confining it to specific circumstances – ie close to the breakdown rather than in wide channels – is easy enough.

The film suggests that, at any moment, our advanced civilization could be close to a breakdown exacerbated by precisely what is most advanced in it.

Bullivant, 25, did not deny absconding, but said he believed he had no option as the order had left him close to a breakdown.

At the heart of it was his relationship with his son, Chris, then 12, who himself, unsettled by his father's mania, seemed close to a breakdown.