"system has stopped" can be a complete, grammatically correct sentence and is commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe the malfunction or shutdown of a computer system or any other type of system. Example: "I'm sorry, I cannot proceed with the installation as the system has stopped responding."
This check system has stopped 690,000 sales of guns to people with felony convictions.
But when markets require bailouts of the two largest mortgage companies, an investment bank and a giant insurer in the space of six months — with a general mortgage bailout in the works — it is a sign that the system has stopped working.
Letting the simulation run until the system has stopped fluctuating, saving the ( β, S ) -pair, changing the control slightly and doing things over yields points of ∂R in our system.
In another typical case, FarmLogs users can see if an irrigation system has stopped working properly and part of their field is over- or under-watered, then go out and fix the system before washing away expensive inputs, like fertilizers or organic pesticides.
Crucial parts of the financial system have stopped functioning.
Two trains later, it seemed as if the sprinkler system had stopped having any effect.
In fact, when Roosevelt took office the unemployment rate was at its all-time historical peak, twenty-five per cent, and the entire American banking system had stopped functioning.
An alarm at reactor number three earlier revealed the system had stopped at one of the pools containing spent, but highly radioactive, fuel rods.
Value Line received a lot of bad publicity, such as the Wall Street Journal, which wondered, in an article on page one of their Money & Markets section, whether Value Line's system had stopped working for good.
Could a well-functioning system have stopped the accident?
However, by the end of the 1980s, the council system had stopped working and the political violence levels increased again (11, 13).
