The violence reflected a near total breakdown in Egypt's political life.
That's how we got here — a near total breakdown of responsibility at every link in our financial chain, and now we either bail out the people who brought us here or risk a total systemic crash.
ver then had a near total breakdown in said dune after said blunt and forgotten who you were, where you were, why you were there and who these fucking weirdos you're with who're toting a crate of Stella and a few balaclavas down to the sea are?
Obama's eventual election, the French president said, would "validate" his strategy of reconciliation following a near-total breakdown in Franco-US relations over the Iraq invasion.
The general thesis of the column was that a near-total breakdown of responsibility at every link in our financial chain got us here.
Only when faced with the near-total breakdown of the Haitian state, rioting, and a potential coup d'état did Duvalier acknowledge that his days were numbered and flee the country.
But when American authors such as Edmund Wilson or John Steinbeck wrote about the shut-down assembly lines in Detroit or the exodus of the Okies (Oklahomans displaced by the Dust Bowl) to California, they were describing something new: the near-total breakdown of a previously affluent economy.
Members of the Afghan Parliament came to blows as a majority for the first time began to discuss impeaching President Hamid Karzai, signaling the near-total breakdown of relations between the Parliament and the president as the country teeters on the brink of a constitutional crisis.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Members of the Afghan Parliament came to blows Tuesday as a majority for the first time began to discuss impeaching President Hamid Karzai, signaling the near-total breakdown of relations between the Parliament and the president as the country teeters on the brink of a constitutional crisis.
Gilbert Collard, a far-right deputy in the National Assembly born in the city, argues that part of the reason for its drug culture and recent turf wars is the near-total breakdown of social and family ties in the most deprived districts.In the past racial tensions were often high in Marseille and even more in its neighbouring region.
The inaction was a lapse in leadership that reflected the eventual near total-breakdown of discipline in the unit.
