Sentence examples for over a breakdown from inspiring English sources

The settlements will take the bank to task over a breakdown in controls that allowed the trading losses to occur.

He has offended conservatives by appearing to condone less-than-Islamic dress for women, and has presided over a breakdown in co-operation between the government and parliament.

The mutual recriminations continued, too, over a breakdown in talks this week about a possible security plan to ease pressure on the Palestinians, whose economy and very lives have been disrupted by the Israeli takeover of the West Bank.

But it is the prime minister who is critical in setting the tone for national conversation on these issues and Abbott has presided over a breakdown in the relationship between many Muslims and their government.

The second half began along similar lines to much of the first, the hosts going through a multitude of phases before Australia turned the ball over at a breakdown.

Keith Vaz, chairman of the commons home affairs select committee, said MPs intended to quiz the home secretary, Theresa May, over whether a breakdown in communications between riot police and protection officers had contributed to the incident.

The movie is set in Cambridge in 1978 and tells the story of how Cam, recently recovered from a breakdown, took over the care of Maya and China, aged ten and eight, while Peggy, in order to support them, went to New York to get an M.B.A. and, eventually, a job at the brokerage firm E. F. Hutton.

Yet having succumbed almost to a breakdown over the Christmas lunch, Jordana's dad Brynn (Sion Tudor Owen) tearfully, brusquely demands that Owen think of himself as a member of their family.

Almost every dispute over authorship starts with a breakdown in communication, Steneck says.

A few calories over was cause for a breakdown, and a few calories under was cause for celebration.

Britain restored direct rule over Northern Ireland in October 2002, amid a breakdown of relations between republicans and unionists.