history as a grave breakdown of the national character.
Such conditions threaten graver breakdowns yet, eroding the popular trust and confidence in both government and the press on which effective exercise of the function of both depends".
White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the security breakdown as "grave".
"I thought it was coming, some kind of breakdown," Mr. Graves said.
Although he also says he believes that the casualties were civilians, he said he counted 27 graves and gave a different breakdown for the numbers of men, women and children.
After two days of closed-door conversations between the pope and Irish bishops, a Vatican statement said the scandal had ignited a "grave crisis," which had "led to a breakdown in trust in the church's leadership".
At 19, he tried to commit suicide on his mother's grave; later, in the army, he had a nervous breakdown.
— Lincoln Caplan, Comment, October 28 , 1991The battle over the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork revealed to the public a grave development that legal scholars had been observing for some time: a breakdown in consensus on the most basic American legal principles.
By Joshua Rothman December 19 , 2012The battle over the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork revealed to the public a grave development that legal scholars had been observing for some time: a breakdown in consensus on the most basic American legal principles.
One sub-genre refuses to reveal its genre: maybe the POV character is being visited by beings from beyond the grave, or maybe he or she is having the mother of all nervous breakdowns – we'll never know for sure.
