Sentence examples for occasional breakdowns from inspiring English sources

And, as rallies lengthen and semi-finals and finals of big tournaments stretch with increasing regularity towards five and six hours, the strains of the game show in their occasional breakdowns, tantrums even, and the inevitable slip in form and fitness.

untreated Despite the limits of the treatment systems and occasional breakdowns, environmentalists and government regulators say the waters around the metropolitan region are far cleaner than a decade or more ago, when many municipalities, including New York City, routinely dumped untreated sewage.

In court papers and in interviews with those who know Mr. Alexander, a sketchy portrait has already emerged of a young man from an affluent Atlanta-area family who spent freely and put up a confident front to impress his peers, but who suffered strong insecurities and occasional breakdowns.

Hinglish, for all its occasional breakdowns of communication, is an authentically Indian hybrid.

William May, CEO of the American Can Company, said, "Despite occasional breakdowns, the collective bargaining progress has been an important stabilizing influence in our industrial system, and we take this opportunity to reaffirm the need to preserve rather than destroy it".

Once in operation, the machines run continuously, stopping only for maintenance and the occasional breakdown.

Instead of moaning and sulking and having fits she accepts the inevitable facts and deals with it (well, she has the occasional breakdown but hey, she's a teenager).

Consequently, microbial-plant interactions, like any other biological interspecific interaction [1], [2], [8] [12], involve selfishness, cheating and power-struggles between the partners, thus forming a continuum of interactions from antagonistic to mutualistic [4], with an occasional breakdown in mutualism [12].

Our study provided evidence for the occasional breakdown of both ethological and mechanical isolation barriers mediated by the pollinators, which provides opportunities for the formation of hybrids between O. arachnitiformis and O. lupercalis when they are found in sympatry.

Service is extremely attentive, which makes up for occasional communication breakdowns.

Their frantic live energy, occasional emotional breakdowns, and whirl of movement they transmit refuses to be contained by hardware and neither will their gear adhere to any dogmatic, boring, purist manifestos.