Sentence examples for system had broken from inspiring English sources

Overloaded with information, the exchange system had broken down.

I went to Russia last week and the baggage system had broken down at Heathrow.

But he also acknowledged that the losses showed that UBS's vaunted risk-management system had broken down.

In 1994, however, Dr Oldroyd read about a colony in New Zealand in which this system had broken down and workers had produced their own offspring.

But in his second year, things improved; either the system had broken him, or he had embraced its ethos – even he can't say which.

State officials said today that the system had broken down and they ordered a review of how the division had handled Ms. Williams's case.

But even here, the system has broken down.

Its implication is that our whole system has broken down.

"Since 2009, the physical delivery system has broken down".

One consequence is that the country's stable two-party system has broken down.

The parties involved agree, though, that the old system has broken down.