Sentence examples for meltdowns to from inspiring English sources

Capital is an ambitious state-of-the-nation fiction with a positively Victorian breadth, dramatising many present-day obsessions, from bank meltdowns to Islamist terrorism, house prices to parking tickets.

The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, stricken by an earthquake and a tsunami last March, has led to widespread criticism of nuclear officials for their lax approach to safety, as well as for a bungled response that allowed meltdowns to occur at three of the plant's six reactors.

Through its rich cast of characters – including a City banker and his shopoholic wife, a British Pakistani family who own the local shop, a teenage football star from Senegal and an elderly widow who has lived on the street since she was born - Lanchester's panoramic novel dramatizes many of our present-day obsessions, from bank meltdowns to Islamist terrorism, house prices to parking tickets.

The Mets and the Yankees were closing in on a startling deal last night that would send closer Armando Benitez, famous for his big-moment meltdowns, to the Yankees for a package of prospects, an executive with one of the teams said.

The paper*, a sequel to work presented at the 2008 conference, looks at the aftermath of past financial meltdowns to gauge just how bad America's recession might be.The analysis is based on 14 "severe" banking busts, including the Depression as well as the more recent "big-five" crines in the rich world Spain in the late 1970s, Norway in 1987, and Finland, Japan and Sweden in the early 1990s.

An often abrasive and divisive character who went on to coach his native county to their first All Ireland success for 16 years in one of the most thrilling All Ireland finals of all time, against Cork in 2013, he attributes his occasional touchline meltdowns to an intolerance of the kind of bullies he has previously admitted made his schooldays a misery during his early teens.

After all, who would want to bequeath a financial meltdown to the next president?

Threatening a fiscal meltdown to protect lower tax rates for millionaires isn't a corrective.

Of course, it would probably take another financial meltdown to make banking nationalization politically tenable.

How close was the Fukushima meltdown to becoming a far larger disaster?

Or will we just lurch from massive meltdown to massive theft and on and on?