Sentence examples for possible breakdown of from inspiring English sources

But there was real anxiety about a possible breakdown of security as Mrs Thatcher began her speech.

So could there be another dimension to this deployment – as a contingency, say, against the inability of the Sierra Leone authorities to enforce a quarantine regime, or even against a possible breakdown of law and order.

In this talk I will first explain why I do not believe that any of these "solutions" is satisfactory, and secondly review the progress which has been made over the last two decades in setting constraints on a possible breakdown of the quantum description as we progress from the microscopic level to that of our everyday experience.

As warring groups prepared for battle despite a month-old cease-fire, West African mediators faced the possible breakdown of peace talks to end a conflict that has cost hundreds of lives, sent thousands fleeing their homes and crippled the economy.

As East Germany went through its own revolution, rejecting one Communist leader after another, facing a possible breakdown of authority, and as our allies became increasingly concerned, US policymakers could no longer take refuge behind the boilerplate declaration that we support a unified Germany in NATO.

But the potential combination of unconventional weapons and terrorism, climate change and environmental degradation, global shortages of basic resources and the possible breakdown of the economic order present immeasurable risks unless the world's governments decide to address them seriously and together.

The analysis of the data which are collected could be used for the prediction of possible breakdowns of the RO plant.

Dibut.MPRP showed minimal ability to inhibit L1210/MPR cells although this compound was a possible breakdown product of bis(dibut.MPR P and a source of the same extracellular degradation products.

The U.S. EPA does, of course, have substantial regulatory procedures for evaluating pesticides before they are marketed, but these cannot possibly include testing all of the possible breakdown products and their potential synergistic reactions with other chemicals released into farm fields, or examining all of the potential trans-generational effects in humans or other organisms.

It takes him to the point of a possible breakdown".

A possible breakdown mechanism involving the electrophilic attack of the hydroxyl radical is given.