Sentence examples for exploit the breakdown of from inspiring English sources

The fall of the coastal city of Zinjibar to self-styled holy warriors who claimed to have "liberated" it from "the agents of the Americans" fed into Western fears that militants sympathetic to Al Qaeda could exploit the breakdown of authority to take control of territory.

…debut, starring in the play Network, about a television network that exploits the breakdown of one its news anchors.

The media may present themselves as amused spectators, but it is they who have provoked and exploited the breakdown of an element in the democracy they themselves inhabit".

Some in the city exploited the breakdowns by forming gangs that spread violence.

The persistence of cooperative relationships is an evolutionary paradox; selection should favor those individuals that exploit their partners (cheating), resulting in the breakdown of cooperation over evolutionary time.

The breakdown of the protective environment leaves children vulnerable to traffickers who exploit the desperation of families.

- Exploit the power of fear.

Mr. Gosselin's lawyer, Mark J. Heller, said in a statement last week that his client perceived TLC "as a monster that has exploited and manipulated his family and has been partially responsible for the breakdown of his marriage".