Sentence examples for lead to meltdown from inspiring English sources

Writing in the Guardian today, Wendy Piatt and Michael Arthur, director-general and chair of the Russell group, warn that the cuts could lead to "meltdown" in the sector.

But the industry is exploring new technologies that would not lead to meltdown even in a worst-case malfunction, making them inherently safer and cheaper to build and operate.

Many commentators expected Gordon Brown's gaffe in describing a Rochdale voter as a "bigoted woman" to lead to meltdown in the Labour vote, and were surprised that the polls did not budge.

But he acknowledges that for young artists, the pressure does sometimes lead to meltdowns: "No one's a machine — we're all human".

We've taken dozens of family road trips, but I'd never appreciated how much things have changed from the days when disrupted nap or meal schedules could lead to meltdowns, when we had to be prepared to change a diaper on a tailgate, or intervene in a "he's touching/looking at/bothering me," argument.

This can lead to meltdowns (which look like tantrums, but aren't done on purpose) or shutdowns (which involve passivity and withdrawal).

In the Turner Review he set out the faults that led to meltdown last year: increasing leverage, mind-blowing complexity, the development of shadow banking as a way of dodging capital requirements, and a lack of systemic oversight.

(Loss of those generators is what led to meltdowns at Fukushima).

The crisis at the Fukushima plant, which led to meltdowns in three reactors, started after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused a tsunami that swept through the plant, knocking out the electrical power needed to run crucial cooling systems.

Analysts have said that Tokyo Electric could face trillions of yen in claims after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami wreaked havoc at the Fukushima plant, in northeast Japan, and led to meltdowns at three reactors.

"Seismic liquidity breakdowns" led to meltdowns in Asia and defaults in Russia, as well as the crisis at Long Term Capital in 1998.