Sentence examples for system has broken down from inspiring English sources

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

The country's payments system has broken down, and many foreign banks will not accept Indonesian letters of credit, throttling trade.

Leigh Day claims polling for more than a year "has shown the old two/three party system has broken down".

Most public hospitals have closed, the sanitation system has broken down in many cities and water has become tainted.

"The system has broken down," declared George Soros, the billionaire hedge-fund investor, in a speech here last week.

The system has broken down!" But the minds of motor company officials have not as yet been fertile in ideas for new systems.

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

It has also acknowledged that its vaunted risk-management system had broken down, a problem the Swiss Banking Commission was quick to note on Thursday.

Their satellite navigation system had broken down, and they survived on what tuna they could catch, "but sometimes we'd go three or four days with no food", Mr Tontaake told Agence France Presse.

At the end of his 34-hour 20-minute flight, when the automatic control system had broken down, he piloted his craft back to Earth manually and landed just 4 miles (6 km) from the primary recovery ship.

Disappointed travelers who had been turned away from flights or had arrived on the few flights that were able to land in the late afternoon found that the monorail system had broken down completely.