Sentence examples for system was thrown from inspiring English sources

When the subprime bubble burst last year, the financial system was thrown into turmoil — where it remains.

The nation's largest school system was thrown into a panic recently when the mayor of New York decreed that third graders who performed poorly on a city test just weeks away could be required to repeat the grade.

Earlier this year, that unstable system was thrown into further disarray by Louisiana's worst budget crisis in decades, which came in the wake of a steep drop in oil prices and years of tax-slashing by former governor Bobby Jindal.

Alabama's troubled corrections system was thrown into crisis today when two sheriffs sent more than 200 inmates from their overcrowded jails to state prisons where cellblocks were already packed.

After the turmoil of 2008, when the financial system was thrown off center, credit markets ground to a halt and the government had to step in with rescue loans in a number of industries, many investors gave fund managers a pass for disappointing performance.

The buyback system is thrown off.

On ScienceNow, Elizabeth Norton reported that a new study might offer insight into why the immune system is thrown off when the body's internal clock is interrupted.

When this is proven false, the basis of the entire system is thrown into question.

The hybrid system is "throwing sand in the gears of the marketplace," charges Benn Steil, an expert on exchanges at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

The F.B.I.'s system for managing its informants was thrown into the spotlight last week by the arrests in Los Angeles of James J. Smith, a veteran agent, and Katrina Leung, a longtime informant, on charges of mishandling classified data.

Furthermore, do we really want a man in the White House who, along with his homeboy Tom Delay, was the key shaper of the current pay-to-play system in Congress, where seniority was thrown into the Potomac River and politicians who brought in the most cash got the plum committee assignments?