Sentence examples for having broken down from inspiring English sources
That move having broken down, he was ready to fight for his place.
The pope celebrated mass within sight of the so-called graveyard of wrecks, where fishing boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers end up after they drift ashore, their engines often having broken down at sea.
But having broken down on his return from a shoulder injury last month he has had the joint pinned and will not resume rehabilitation work for at least a month.
They knew that he was on borrowed time and hoped that he would not be borrowing much more, his relationship with them having broken down long ago, but they had no idea he was going then.
With settlement talks having broken down, the judge overseeing the government's antitrust case against Microsoft issued a stinging ruling yesterday that Microsoft had violated antitrust laws by abusing its monopoly position over Windows, the operating system that controls the vast majority of personal computers.
The threat of violence is nothing new in Spain, where Muslim terrorists blew up commuter trains a few years ago, killing many, and where the threat of killings by Basque extremists (there was a bomb attack in Bilbao on Tuesday, a truce with the government having broken down in June) has again become part of the daily background noise of life.
