Sentence examples for ordinary breakdown from inspiring English sources

These sequences suggest not the kind of incivility and violence that exists in all societies, but the ordinary breakdown of infrastructure and civil management — a sort of lawlessness of neglect that indicates more fundamental breakdowns of civic order.

A second mechanism, termed exhaustion hardening, results from a breakdown of the mean-field conditions for forest hardening in small volumes, thus biasing the statistics of ordinary dislocation processes.

And, since his election, the country has been wracked with devastating food shortages, a breakdown of ordinary services and medical care, and rampant violence.

But while not suggesting an impact on safety, Dr. Corradini called the breakdown of the pump "not an ordinary occurrence at all".

The 108-87 loss to the Knicks featured the expected sloppy turnovers and defensive breakdowns, but nothing out of the ordinary.

The extension of the breakdown concept to out-of-the-ordinary moments gives more opportunity to analyse a city, its working mechanisms and layers.

The liver's extremely dedicated tissues normalize an extensive diversity of high-volume biochemical reactions, including the synthesis and breakdown of small and complex molecules, countless of which are essential for ordinary fundamental functions [ 3].

Red dashed lines separate the three time intervals corresponding to three different kind of workings (i) piling work, ii) Embankment consolidation, i.e., parapet breakdown, excavation, embankment arrangement and foot wall consolidation (Arno river side), and iii) ordinary activities, i.e., backfill and restoring of the original condition, ordinary construction activities).

Second, the notion of breakdown as "interruptions of the action flow" may be extended in a city to include out of the ordinary events, like fairs, social events, strikes, and so on, and not only actual breakdowns.

A breakdown?

Communications breakdown.